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creativetimofficial / material-dashboard-react

React version of Material Dashboard by Creative Tim
https://www.creative-tim.com/product/material-dashboard-react
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[Feature Request] Compatibility with react-admin #101

Closed thclark closed 4 years ago

thclark commented 4 years ago

What is your enhancement?

The biggest problem with ct-material-dashboard-react-pro is that as developers, we still have to wire everything up - from state management to wrapping containers around components and declaring sagas, as well as properly wiring up forms and auth.

However, react-admin is an excellent library that handles all of this for you out of the box, relying on proven tech for sagas, forms, auth and fetching data from an API.

Providing material-dashboard-react as a theme (plus perhaps a few custom components like sidebar and navbar etc) would take all the pain out of bootstrapping an app. Also, it leaves you entirely backend-agnostic (avoiding the need for a more complete example to actually choose a backend like PHP or django).

My own use case for this is that I have an app in material-dashboard-pro, and an app now in react-admin. Using what I've learned from creative-tim, I've restyled the other app, but it's still quite materially.

I want to:

Hope this helps.

einazare commented 4 years ago

Hello @thclark ,

At the moment we haven't worked with react-admin, and can't really give you guidance on how to use it.

Best, Manu

thclark commented 4 years ago

Hi @EINazare, I think it was fairly clear I wasn't asking for help, but submitting suggestion for enhancement with a use case.

I spent a not-that-small part of my day submitting the above issue because I felt it was something that:

There's really no benefit to me - I've already ported styling across to RA. Look into it, or don't, that's your call - but it would've been nice to have had a thanks for taking the time to carefully craft some useful feedback.

einazare commented 4 years ago

Hello again, @thclark ,

The confusion came from this:

I want to:

  • Take the horrid tech stack underneath my ct-material-dashboard-pro app, and replace it with the much more maintainable react-admin framework, without using the CT styling that users are already enjoying
  • Take my non-ct-material-dashboard-pro app and apply some creative-tim magic to it.

My bad for misunderstanding your issue.

Best, Manu