sequelize-admin

A connect module for managing database entries of registered sequelize models.

Look & Feel

The initial view will show you all the available models + it's instances:

Getting started

The idea behind sequelize-admin is to have a drop-in, easy-to-use CMS-like admin panel, which allows the creation, deletion and modification of database entries. The application needs to be based on connect or express and should use sequelize. To add the module to your existing application, you just have to add the following line:

app.use(admin(sequelize))

This will make the admin area available under http://your.app/admin. sequelize-admin is depending on the module sequelize-restful, which transforms a sequelize instance into a RESTful interface. If your are already using sequelize-restful, you need to tell sequelize-admin where it can find the REST API. If you don't define that option, the admin panel will create it's own instance of the REST interface.

// default of restful: true
app.use(admin(sequelize, { restful: '/my/path/to/the/rest/api' }))

In addition to that, you might need to protect your API against external request. This is where sequelize-authentication comes into play. The module will take parameters of a request to authenticate against your database. If you want to use that, you have to give sequelize-admin a small hint:

// default of authentication: false

// passing true will assume, that no param options is used 
// and that the credentials are passed via params mode.
app.use(admin(sequelize, { authentication: true }))

// define the relevant options of authentication
app.use(admin(sequelize, { 
	authentication: {
		param: 'credentials',
		via:   'headers'
	}
}))

In total, you will end up with something like this:

var app            = express()
  , authentication = require('sequelize-authentication')
  , restful        = require('sequelize-restful)
  , admin          = require('sequelize-admin')
  , Sequelize      = require('sequelize')
  , sequelize      = new Sequelize('database', 'user', 'password')

app.configure(function() {
	app.use(authenticate(sequelize, { 
		via: 'headers', 
		scope: '/admin/api', 
		param: 'credentials' 
	}))
  
	app.use(restful(sequelize, { endpoint: '/admin/api' }))

	app.use(admin(sequelize, {
		endpoint: '/admin',
		restful:  '/admin/api',
		authentication: {
			via: 'headers', 
			param: 'credentials' 
		}
	}))
})

If you just skip all the options and only use admin(sequelize), you will get an admin panel which is located under http://your.app/admin, with a RESTful API under http://your.app/admin/api and without any protection of that API.

Develompent notes

Updating dependencies

Dependencies are managed with bower. Check the documentation to get details about updating components. The respective component.json is located under app/js/component.json. In order to update a new component, you have to do this:

cd app/js
bower install <component>

After updating bootstrap you need to run the following command:

npm run amdify-bootstrap