Re: Custom Admin UI Help

[Jed Watson]

Hey Artico!

Sorry for the delay - I care a lot. And thank you for the feedback, it's great to hear :)

The things you're looking for are all goals for the next big version (0.4, but that number is really underselling the work that's gone into it)

There are a lot of changes in the works that make keystone more modular and enable customisation properly and as soon as they're finished we'll document how  it all works.

For background - I get up to 50 notifications a day and am running on a few hours sleep at the moment. Currently doing a crazy amount of work to get Keystone 0.4 shipped this month. I'm also giving a talk about it in Sydney tomorrow night and in Nashville (at Nodevember) the weekend after next, to present our vision for it as the node.js community-powered content management platform.

So hang in there, we're nearly done, and don't worry - there's no indifference here, just a lot going on :)

- Jed.

[Jed Watson]

The transition from 0.3 to 0.4 will be pretty painless unless you're doing something crazy. We've reworked most of the internals, but left the public-facing API nearly the same.

The only real way to customise the Admin UI at the moment is to fork it and edit the source code directly. Unfortunately those customisations will be hard to port to 0.4, but if you're on a timeline it would be the best way to get it done.

Have a look at the master branch and see how it's going, sounds like a bit of a race but I'll check back in next week with an update and maybe we'll get there in time for you to base your customisations on the new version. How stable it is is highly dependent on which features you're using... if you tell me the field types you're using I'll let you know how much of a stretch it will be.