Flask-Admin

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Pallets Community Ecosystem

Important

This project is part of the Pallets Community Ecosystem. Pallets is the open source organization that maintains Flask; Pallets-Eco enables community maintenance of related projects. If you are interested in helping maintain this project, please reach out on the Pallets Discord server.

Introduction

Flask-Admin is a batteries-included, simple-to-use Flask extension that lets you add admin interfaces to Flask applications. It is inspired by the django-admin package, but implemented in such a way that the developer has total control over the look, feel, functionality and user experience of the resulting application.

Out-of-the-box, Flask-Admin plays nicely with various ORM's, including

• SQLAlchemy
• pymongo
• and Peewee.

It also boasts a simple file management interface and a Redis client console.

The biggest feature of Flask-Admin is its flexibility. It aims to provide a set of simple tools that can be used to build admin interfaces of any complexity. To start off, you can create a very simple application in no time, with auto-generated CRUD-views for each of your models. Then you can further customize those views and forms as the need arises.

Flask-Admin is an active project, well-tested and production-ready.

Examples

Several usage examples are included in the /examples folder. Please add your own, or improve on the existing examples, and submit a pull-request.

To run the examples in your local environment:

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/pallets-eco/flask-admin.git
   cd flask-admin

2. Create and activate a virtual environment:

   # Windows:
   python -m venv .venv
   .venv\Scripts\activate
   
   # Linux:
   python3 -m venv .venv
   source .venv/bin/activate

3. Navigate into the SQLAlchemy example folder:

   cd examples/sqla

4. Install requirements:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

5. Run the application:

   python app.py

6. Check the Flask app running on http://localhost:5000.

Documentation

Flask-Admin is extensively documented, you can find all of the documentation at https://flask-admin.readthedocs.io/en/latest/.

The docs are auto-generated from the .rst files in the /doc folder. If you come across any errors or if you think of anything else that should be included, feel free to make the changes and submit a pull-request.

To build the docs in your local environment, from the project directory:

tox -e docs-html

Installation

To install Flask-Admin, simply:

pip install flask-admin

Or alternatively, you can download the repository and install manually by doing:

git clone https://github.com/pallets-eco/flask-admin.git
cd flask-admin
pip install .

Tests

Tests are run with pytest. If you are not familiar with this package, you can find out more on their website.

To run the tests, from the project directory, simply run:

pip install --use-pep517 -r requirements/dev.txt
pytest

You should see output similar to:

.............................................
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 102 tests in 13.132s

OK

NOTE! For all the tests to pass successfully, you'll need Postgres (with the postgis and hstore extension) & MongoDB to be running locally. You'll also need libgeos available.

For Postgres:

psql postgres
> CREATE DATABASE flask_admin_test;
> # Connect to database "flask_admin_test":
> \c flask_admin_test;
> CREATE EXTENSION postgis;
> CREATE EXTENSION hstore;

If you're using Homebrew on MacOS, you might need this:

# Install postgis and geos
brew install postgis
brew install geos

# Set up a PostgreSQL user
createuser -s postgresql
brew services restart postgresql

You can also run the tests on multiple environments using tox.

3rd Party Stuff

Flask-Admin is built with the help of Bootstrap, Select2 and Bootswatch.

If you want to localize your application, install the Flask-Babel package.

You can help improve Flask-Admin's translations through Crowdin: https://crowdin.com/project/flask-admin