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marmelab/react-admin

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TLDR

Open-source framework for building admin dashboards and back-office interfaces. Connect your API, define your data entities, and get a fully functional management interface with forms, tables, permissions, and more, in hours instead of weeks.

Mindmap

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    What it does
      Auto-generates admin UIs
      Connects to any API
      Handles permissions
      Undo and optimistic updates
    Key features
      Data tables and forms
      Search and filtering
      File uploads
      Rich text editing
    Tech stack
      React
      TypeScript
      Material Design
    Use cases
      Order management
      Content systems
      Customer databases
      Internal dashboards
    Audience
      Founders
      Vibe coders
      Full-stack developers

Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Build an order management dashboard to view and edit customer orders without writing custom UI code.

USE CASE 2

Create a content management system where editors can add, edit, and delete blog posts or product listings.

USE CASE 3

Set up a customer support interface to manage tickets, assign them to staff, and track resolution status.

USE CASE 4

Build an internal operations panel to view signups, manage user permissions, and handle administrative tasks.

Tech stack

ReactTypeScriptMaterial DesignREST APIGraphQL

Getting it running

Difficulty · moderate Time to first run · 30min

Requires connecting to an existing API (REST or GraphQL) to see a working dashboard; framework itself installs easily but needs data source configuration.

Open-source framework available under a permissive license allowing free use for any purpose, including commercial applications.

In plain English

React-admin is an open-source framework for building admin dashboards and back-office interfaces, the internal tools businesses use to manage their data, like an order management panel, a content management system, or a customer database interface. Instead of building these interfaces from scratch, react-admin gives you a full set of pre-built, customizable components that you wire up to your existing API. The core idea: point react-admin at your data source (a REST API, GraphQL endpoint, or any of 45+ supported services), tell it what entities to manage (users, products, orders, etc.), and it automatically generates pages for listing, searching, filtering, creating, editing, and deleting those records, complete with forms, data tables, pagination, sorting, and validation. All of this looks polished out of the box using Google's Material Design visual style. It handles the hard parts of admin UIs that developers otherwise spend weeks building: role-based permissions so different staff see different things, optimistic updates (the screen responds instantly before the server confirms), undo functionality, saved search filters, rich text editing, file uploads, and full internationalization for multi-language teams. For a founder or vibe coder who needs an internal dashboard for their app, to view signups, manage content, handle support requests, or run operations, react-admin can get that interface built in hours rather than weeks. It runs entirely in the browser (built with React, a popular JavaScript UI library) and connects to whatever backend you already have.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
I have a REST API with users, products, and orders. Show me how to set up react-admin to create a dashboard where I can list, search, filter, and edit these entities.
Prompt 2
How do I add role-based permissions to a react-admin dashboard so that managers see all orders but support staff only see their assigned tickets?
Prompt 3
I want to add file upload and rich text editing to my react-admin forms. What components do I use and how do I configure them?
Prompt 4
Show me how to connect react-admin to a GraphQL endpoint instead of REST, and set up pagination and sorting on a data table.
Prompt 5
How do I customize the Material Design theme in react-admin to match my company's brand colors and fonts?
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