Evolutility-UI-React ·

Evolutility-UI-React is a set of model-driven views to Browse, Edit, List, Cards, Charts, Statistics, and API Documentation. With it you can easily build CRUD applications by writing models rather than code. It works with REST APIs (using Evolutility-Server-Node) or GraphQL (using Hasura). No hand-coding is necessary.

Table of Contents

1. Installation
2. Configuration
3. Views: One - Many - Doc
4. Models
5. Backend
6. License

Installation

Download or clone from GitHub.

# To get the latest stable version, use git from the command line.
git clone https://github.com/evoluteur/evolutility-ui-react

or use the npm package:

# To get the latest stable version, use npm from the command line.
npm install evolutility-ui-react

In the Evolutility-UI-React directory, use the command line to type the following:

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Run the node.js server
npm start

In a web browser, go to the url http://localhost:3000/.

For the REST endpoints, you also need to install and run Evolutility-Server-Node which provides the matching REST endpoints based on the same metadata.

Configuration

Configurations options are specified in the file /src/config.js. They apply to all apps (app specific options are specified in models).

Views

For any object, a single model defines UI elements across views in a simple declarative way.

Evolutility-UI-React provides different types of view:

• Views for One - a single record: Browse, Edit.
• Views for Many - a collection of records: List, Cards, Charts, Stats.
• Views for documentation: REST API Doc.

Evolutility can be configured to use REST (using Evolutility-Server-Node) or GraphQL (using Hasura).

Notes: Views for actions (search, filter, export) will come later.

Views for One object

Browse - Edit

Browse

Shows all fields for viewing (read only). Fields are grouped in panels.

Code: /src/components/views/one/Browse.js

View: http://localhost:3000/comics/browse/{id}

Edit

This view shows all fields for edition to create or update records. It automatically performs validation based on the model. Fields are grouped in panels and tabs.

Code: /src/components/views/one/Edit.js

View: http://localhost:3000/comics/edit/{id}

Views for Many objects

List - Cards - Charts - Stats

List

Gives a tabular view of a collection.

Code: /src/components/views/many/List.js

View: http://localhost:3000/comics/list

Cards

Shows records side by side as cards.

Code: /src/components/views/many/Cards.js

View: http://localhost:3000/comics/cards

Charts

Draws charts about the collection. Currently bars and pie charts are implemented, a list with count and percentages is also available. Only provided for fields of types like boolean, lov, integer, decimal, date... (not text or textmultilines).

Code: /src/components/views/charts/Charts.js

View: http://localhost:3000/comics/charts

Note: The "Charts" view is currently only implemented for REST, not available with GraphQL yet.

Stats

Display last update, number of updates in the last week, and for numeric fields the min, max, count, average.

Code: /src/components/views/many/Stats.js

View: http://localhost:3000/comics/stats

Views for Documentation

REST API

Documentation and test for the model's REST endpoints.

Code: /src/components/views/doc/Api.js

View: http://localhost:3000/comics/api

Note: This view is only useful when using REST. For GraphQL third party tools like GraphiQL can be used.

Models

Each model describe an object and its list of fields. A single model is used for all views (Browse, Edit, List, Cards...).

For any object, all UI views (List, Cards, Edit, Charts...) share the same model. All Fields are present in the Edit and Browse views. Fields can be flagged with "inMany" to be included in the List and Cards views, or "noCharts" and "noStats" to be excluded from the Charts or Stats views.

Object

Field

Objects have fields.

Group

Groups are used to separate Fields into panels in the Edit and Browse views.

Notes:

• Groups are optional. By default a single group holds all fields.
• Groups are positioned based on their "width" property the same way than fields are positioned inside groups.

Collection

Multiple details tables can be specified with "collections".

Sample model using collections: Wine Cellar.

Sample model

The following example is the model for a simple graphic novels inventory app.

module.exports = {
    id: "comics",
    label: "Graphic Novels",
    name: "graphic novel serie",
    namePlural: "graphic novel series",
    icon: "comics.png",
    titleField: "title",
    fields:[
      {
          id: "title", type: "text", 
          label: "Title", 
          required: true, maxLength: 255,
          width: 100, inMany: true, 
      },
      {
          id: "authors", type: "text", 
          label: "Authors",
          inMany: true, width: 62, 
          
      },
      {
          id: "genre", type: "lov", 
          label: "Genre", 
          width: 38, inMany: true,
          list: [
            {id: 1, text: "Adventure"},
            {id: 2, text: "Fairy tale"},
            {id: 3, text: "Erotic"},
            {id: 4, text: "Fantastic"},
            {id: 5, text: "Heroic Fantasy"},
            {id: 6, text: "Historic"},
            {id: 7, text: "Humor"},
            {id: 8, text: "One of a kind"},
            {id: 9, text: "Youth"},
            {id: 10, text: "Thriller"},
            {id: 11, text: "Science-fiction"},
            {id: 12, text: "Super Heros"},
            {id: 13, text: "Western"} 
          ]
      },
      {
          id: "serie_nb", type: "integer",
          label: "Albums", noCharts: true, 
          width: 15, inMany: false 
      },
      {
          id: "have_nb", type: "integer",
          label: "Owned", 
          width: 15, inMany: false, noCharts: true
      },
      {
          id: "have", type: "text",
          label: "Have", 
          width: 15, inMany: false
      },
      {
          id: "language", type: "lov", 
          label: "Language", 
          width: 17, inMany: true,
          lovIcon: true,
          list: [
            {id: 2, text: 'French', icon:'comics/flags/fr.png'},
            {id: 1, text: 'American', icon:'comics/flags/us.png'}
          ]
      },
      {
          id: "complete", type: "boolean",
          label: "Complete", 
          width: 19, inMany: false
      },
      {
          id: "finished", type: "boolean",
          label: "Finished", 
          width: 19, inMany: false
      },
      {
          id: "pix", type: "image",
          label: "Cover", 
          width: 30, inMany: true
      },
      {
          id: "notes", type: "textmultiline", 
          label: "Notes", 
          width: 70, height: 7, maxLength: 5000,
          inMany: false
      }
  ],

  groups: [
      { 
        id:"serie", type: "panel", label: "Serie", width: 70,
        fields: ["title", "authors", "genre", 
              "serie_nb", "have_nb", "have", 
              "language", "complete", "finished", "notes"
        ]
      },
      { 
        id:"pix", type: "panel", label: "Cover", width: 30,
        fields: ["pix"]
      }
  ]
}

More sample models: To-do list, Address book, Restaurants list, Wine cellar.

Evolutility backend

Evolutility-Server-Node provides REST or GraphQL end-points for Evolutility-UI-React using the same models.

Earlier implementations for other stacks

Evolutility-UI-jQuery - Model-driven Web UI for CRUD using jQuery and Backbone (for REST or localStorage).

Evolutility-ASP.net - Lightweight CRUD framework for heavy lifting with ASP.net and Microsoft SQL-Server.

License

Copyright (c) 2021 Olivier Giulieri.

Evolutility-UI-React is released under the MIT license.

To suggest a feature or report a bug: https://github.com/evoluteur/evolutility-ui-react/issues