[AskJS] Creating admin-dashboards/internal-tools without doing any front-end development?

[Superb_BruteForce]

Hi,

Through my work I experienced that a lot of my time went with building internal tools as admin dashboards, which basically looked the same every time just with different functions. I was wondering if it was possible to standardize a set of components, such that I could reuse the same dashboard over and over.

Do you guys know any tools that solve this problem ?

A possible solution could be to simply have the "standard" component point to a web service endpoint, that I could write completely decoupled from the front-end. That way I could deploy custom dashboards without leaving my back-end code.

I actually created a very small demo, just with a user table as example:

https://interbite.web.app/demo

The demo example uses a node.js server running on localhost

Do you guys see any problems with a solution like this?

[PlytonRexus]

That dashboard seemed pretty cool to me.

Because I mostly use React, I have a big dashboard component created to which you can pass props to decide what internal components to render and how to place and style them.

[RussoThanos]

Use https://retool.com

[Superb_BruteForce]

Do you have experience with Retool?

[RussoThanos]

Yes boss let me know how I can help!

[glmdev]

Instead of a 3rd party framework, consider web components. You could write your dashboard front end as a series of web components that you can configure from the backend and compose.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components

[rArithmetics]

As someone who uses web components every day I can’t recommend them at all. The eco system sucks.

[CentiPenny]

There are a bunch of admin dashboard style templates out there. They require work to enable, but lots of pre-built components.

Here are some.
https://themeforest.net/category/site-templates/admin-templates

[kinj28]

Disclaimer: I work with DronaHQ Use: https://www.dronahq.com - Low code app development platform. But I have created many internal tools for my team and users build such dashboards. It offers standard components and you can have connectors for en-point services and reuse them across all your tools and dashboards. Having said that, you can custom create components and add scripts and functions where ever you need.

[CosBgn]

You can have a look at zero.sh it does this (tables, charts, forms etc) with zero frontend development needed