Connect forestadmin to an api

[D.Juu]

Good morning
I’m working on a new company and forest admin is interesting.

Feature(s) impacted

Use the forestadmin’s Frontend

Context

We would like to connect to use forest admin with our api.
We have got a lot of CRUD and our own database. Forestadmin could help us to growth fast

Is it possible to connect the backoffice to an external api and manage the data between frontend and backend ? I checked this and it’s look like we are not able to filter / paginate the result

• Stack
• current backend api : Nestjs, TypeORM
• Database type: Postgres

[morganperre]

Hey @D.Juu, welcome to our community.

@D.Juu

We would like to connect to use forest admin with our api.
We have got a lot of CRUD and our own database. Forestadmin could help us to growth fast

Superbe use case, Forest Admin is able to do so and even more.

@D.Juu

I checked this and it’s look like we are not able to filter / paginate the result

This is a very old and outdated documentation… (Thanks for the feedback our team will remove it asap)

@D.Juu

Is it possible to connect the backoffice to an external api and manage the data between frontend and backend ?

It’s possible for sure. It really depends on what you are trying to achieve. Forest Admin agent for Node.js @forestadmin/agent (backend that runs on your side) provides a wide range of tools (high-level API) to respond to a variety of use cases.

• It can automatically generate all the CRUD routes to access data on your SQL databases (literally with one line of code)
• You can also call your own API by declaring some custom data source (that represents your own REST API)
• It’s compliant and working out of the box with Nestjs

I can forward your message to some colleagues so they can demonstrate the tool to you and your team if you wish.

Kind regards,
Morgan