fastapi-rabbit-admin 0.1.6

A FastAPI admin dashboard for Tortoise ORM models

Rabbit Admin

A modern, production-ready admin dashboard for FastAPI applications using Tortoise ORM. Automatically generates CRUD interfaces for your database models with a beautiful Quasar-based frontend.

Features

• 🚀 Auto-generated CRUD interfaces - Register your Tortoise ORM models and get full CRUD functionality
• 🎨 Modern UI - Built with Quasar Framework (Vue.js)
• 🔗 Relations Support - Handles ForeignKey and ManyToMany relationships
• 📝 Field Types - Supports all common field types including JSON, DateTime, Boolean, and more
• 🎯 Easy Integration - Mount to any existing FastAPI application
• 📦 Zero Configuration - Works out of the box with sensible defaults

Installation

From PyPI (when published)

pip install rabbit-admin

From Source

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/rabbit-admin.git
cd rabbit-admin/backend

# Install in development mode
pip install -e .

# Or install directly
pip install .

Quick Start

1. Define Your Models

from tortoise import fields, models

class Product(models.Model):
    id = fields.IntField(pk=True)
    name = fields.CharField(max_length=255)
    price = fields.FloatField()
    is_available = fields.BooleanField(default=True)
    
    def __str__(self):
        return self.name

2. Set Up Your FastAPI Application

from fastapi import FastAPI
from tortoise.contrib.fastapi import register_tortoise
from rabbit_admin import admin_app
from contextlib import asynccontextmanager

# Import your models
from your_app.models import Product, Category

@asynccontextmanager
async def lifespan(app: FastAPI):
    # Register your models with admin
    await admin_app.register(Product)
    await admin_app.register(Category)
    
    yield

app = FastAPI(lifespan=lifespan)

# Mount the admin router and UI
app.include_router(admin_app.router)
admin_app.mount_ui(app, path="/dash")

# Configure Tortoise ORM
TORTOISE_ORM = {
    "connections": {
        "default": "sqlite://./db.sqlite3"
        # Or use PostgreSQL: "postgres://user:pass@localhost:5432/dbname"
    },
    "apps": {
        "models": {
            "models": ["your_app.models", "aerich.models"],
            "default_connection": "default",
        },
    },
}

register_tortoise(
    app,
    config=TORTOISE_ORM,
    generate_schemas=True,
    add_exception_handlers=True,
)

3. Run Your Application

uvicorn your_app.main:app --reload

4. Access the Admin Dashboard

Navigate to:

• Admin API: http://localhost:8000/api/admin/_models
• Admin UI: http://localhost:8000/dash (mounted via admin_app.mount_ui)
• API Docs: http://localhost:8000/docs

Advanced Usage

Custom Admin Base URL

from rabbit_admin.adminV2 import AdminRegistry

# Create admin with custom base URL
custom_admin = AdminRegistry(base_url="/custom-admin")

# Register models
await custom_admin.register(YourModel)

# Mount to app
app.include_router(custom_admin.router)

Serving the Admin UI

The admin UI is a pre-built Quasar application. To serve it, use the mount_ui method:

# Mount the admin UI (do this AFTER including the router)
app.include_router(admin_app.router)
admin_app.mount_ui(app, path="/dash")

You can customize the mount path:

# Mount at a different path
admin_app.mount_ui(app, path="/admin-ui")
# UI will be available at http://localhost:8000/admin-ui

Note: The static files are automatically included in the package installation. The mount_ui method handles finding and serving them correctly.

Model Registration Options

# Simple registration
await admin_app.register(Product)

# Register multiple models
for model in [Product, Category, Order]:
    await admin_app.register(model)

API Endpoints

Once registered, each model gets the following endpoints:

• GET /api/admin/{model_name} - List all records
• POST /api/admin/{model_name} - Create a new record
• GET /api/admin/{model_name}/{id} - Get a specific record
• PUT /api/admin/{model_name}/{id} - Update a record
• DELETE /api/admin/{model_name}/{id} - Delete a record
• GET /api/admin/{model_name}/form - Get form schema for the model
• GET /api/admin/_models - Get all registered models

Supported Field Types

• IntField - Integer numbers
• CharField - Short text
• TextField - Long text
• FloatField - Decimal numbers
• BooleanField - True/False
• DatetimeField - Date and time
• DateField - Date only
• TimeField - Time only
• JSONField - JSON data
• ForeignKeyField - Foreign key relationships
• ManyToManyField - Many-to-many relationships

Example Application

See example_app.py in the repository for a complete working example.

# Run the example
cd backend
python example_app.py

Development

Project Structure

backend/
├── __init__.py          # Package initialization
├── adminV2.py           # Core admin functionality
├── admin.py             # Legacy admin (V1)
├── decor.py             # Decorators and utilities
├── models.py            # Empty - for your models
├── example_app.py       # Example application
├── static/              # Frontend build files
├── setup.py             # Package setup
└── README.md            # This file

Building the Frontend

The frontend is built using Quasar Framework:

cd frontend
npm install
npm run build  # or: quasar build

# The build output goes to backend/static/

Running Tests

pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest

Requirements

• Python >= 3.8
• FastAPI >= 0.104.0
• Tortoise ORM >= 0.20.0
• Pydantic >= 2.0.0

CORS Configuration

For development with a separate frontend server:

from fastapi.middleware.cors import CORSMiddleware

app.add_middleware(
    CORSMiddleware,
    allow_origins=["http://localhost:9000"],  # Your frontend URL
    allow_credentials=True,
    allow_methods=["*"],
    allow_headers=["*"],
)

Troubleshooting

Models not appearing in admin

• Ensure you've registered the model: await admin_app.register(YourModel)
• Check that Tortoise ORM is properly initialized
• Verify the model is imported before registration

Frontend not loading

• Ensure you've called admin_app.mount_ui(app, path="/dash")
• Mount the UI AFTER including the router: app.include_router(admin_app.router)
• Verify the UI is accessible at the correct path (e.g., http://localhost:8000/dash)
• Check that the static files are included in your package installation

CORS errors

• Add your frontend URL to CORS allowed origins
• Ensure CORS middleware is added before routes

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

License

MIT License - see LICENSE file for details

Credits

• Built with FastAPI
• Database ORM: Tortoise ORM
• Frontend: Quasar Framework

Support

For issues, questions, or contributions, please visit:

• GitHub: https://github.com/yourusername/rabbit-admin
• Issues: https://github.com/yourusername/rabbit-admin/issues