Lumber

The admin microservice generator

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The admin microservice generator

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No-code Platforms

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Unified API

Launch tags:Web App•User Experience•Analytics

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Looks interesting, however I'm a little confused on what it does. Could you explain it like you would to a three year old? :)

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10yr ago

Forest

Maker

@giacomolaw Sure! Instead of coding an admin interface for your web application, you can now use Lumber to generate it automatically. Take a look at our video here:

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10yr ago

@seyz_ Cool! I will give it a go.

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10yr ago

@seyz_ I'm a little bit of an idiot. Where do I run this? 😬

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10yr ago

Forest

Maker

@giacomolaw In your terminal, simply run npm install -g lumber-cli then lumber generate to get started :)

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10yr ago

@seyz_ I'm on Windows... can't seem to find it :/

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10yr ago

Refiner

So Lumber basically lets you create a full-fledged REST API for your node.js project? If yes, pretty cool stuff! How difficult would it be to add a security layer so that the API can be used in a public environment?

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10yr ago

Forest

Maker

@mdausinger Yep! It’s actually even better as it’s not limited to node.js projects, and can be used on top of any MySQL and Postgres database. By default everything is fully secured with JWT authentication 👍

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10yr ago

followupthen

Looks amazing for for rapid prototyping. And retrofitting a legacy app with a modern REST API? Very cool. One quirk: During setup, it was able to read my db and generate admin ui. But when browsing the admin UI it gave various ER_ACCESS_DENIED_ERROR for my local db user. Despite that, seems like a great product once everything is worked out!

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10yr ago

Forest

Maker

@rsweetland Hey! Thank you for the feedback! We've fixed the issue there: https://github.com/ForestAdmin/l... - Can you upgrade your lumber-cli to the latest version?

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10yr ago

folk

Hunter

Hey Hunters, The Forest team listened to your comments and is coming back on PH with Lumber. Check it out!

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10yr ago

Forest

Maker

Thanks @tiboel, we’re so excited to be back on Product Hunt! I’m Sandro (founder of Forest) and I’m happy to answer all your questions :) We launched Forest in June 2016 on PH and received great feedback from the community. The team listened to your comments and worked hard to make it possible for all developers to use Forest, no matter which technology they’re using. Lumber is a generator that analyzes the structure of your database and generates a Node.js admin microservice for your app. It currently supports projects running MySQL and Postgres databases. As with Forest, you’re free to customize the microservice to match your own specific needs. We hope you will find Lumber useful and are excited to know what you think about the project!

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10yr ago

HelpDocs

I connected with @seyz_ and the team earlier this year, and they've been killing it ever since. Looking forward to checking out Lumber. And keep up the great work guys!

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10yr ago

Forest

Maker

@jakeapeters Thanks for the kind words Jake! We’re excited to see what you do with it 😊

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10yr ago

Snapslack

Nice job @seyz_! I think you could use now.sh (https://zeit.co/now/) to automagically deploy the generated microservice in the cloud ;)

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10yr ago

Forest

Maker

@saimeunt Haha, good idea! We’ll look into that 👌 `$ lumber deploy` coming soon :)

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10yr ago

This is something worth trying. For a non-technical founder this is a lot of help for fast prototyping. Love the design.

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10yr ago

Forest

Maker

@jose_nino_perez You're right, the Forest UI is designed for business teams and give them a lot of autonomy. It's perfect for fast prototyping and for mature/ambitious project :)

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10yr ago

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