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Alexander Knyazev
Alexander Knyazev

Reputation: 2892

different versions of admin-on-rest confusing

Most likely this question is to maintainers.

I work with stable version of admin on rest. (https://www.npmjs.com/package/admin-on-rest)

Now the latest is 1.3.4.

The main branch of project-repository is updating only with fixes last time. As I understand, maintainers are working on features only with next branch: https://www.npmjs.com/package/admin-on-rest-next.

But as I see there is other project in npm called 'react-admin': https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-admin.

I am confused about this version because in repository we see that it is deprecated. We see that we should use admin-on-rest. But if I go to admin-on-rest-next branch, in docs we see info about react-admin! It is deprecated, but it's docs in next branch. It's not clear.

And other question to maintainers: if I plan work with my admin-on-rest project for long time in future,which version should I look at now?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 72

Answers (1)

Gildas Garcia
Gildas Garcia

Reputation: 7066

this is understandable.

Originally, we named our project admin-on-rest because:

  • We were using REST only
  • The name react-admin was already taken

However, with the advent of graphql, we worked on making it compatible with any backend. The name admin-on-rest was therefor confusing. We reached for the author of react-admin and he agreed to give us the name.

So, in a nutshell, admin-on-rest and react-admin are the same project:

admin-on-rest is the first version of our project. react-admin is the second version.

We will only release bug fixes and backward compatible new features on admin-on-rest (v1) and we are actively working on react-admin (v2) which uses Material UI v1 (currently in beta).

react-admin has been released as beta too:

npm install [email protected]

All addons packages have been renamed accordingly from aor-XXX to ra-XXX. Please read the upgrade guide in the next branch.

react-admin has been published ! https://marmelab.com/react-admin/

Upvotes: 2

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