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Express

@adminjs/express

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Last updated 7 months ago

Make sure you have installed AdminJS packages described in article.

$ yarn add adminjs @adminjs/express

To setup AdminJS panel with Express.js you need to have express installed and required peer dependencies:

$ yarn add express tslib express-formidable express-session

Afterwards, follow one of the examples below.

Simple

app.js
import AdminJS from 'adminjs'
import AdminJSExpress from '@adminjs/express'
import express from 'express'

const PORT = 3000

const start = async () => {
  const app = express()

  const admin = new AdminJS({})

  const adminRouter = AdminJSExpress.buildRouter(admin)
  app.use(admin.options.rootPath, adminRouter)

  app.listen(PORT, () => {
    console.log(`AdminJS started on http://localhost:${PORT}${admin.options.rootPath}`)
  })
}

start()

Install Express types:

$ yarn add -D @types/express
app.ts
import AdminJS from 'adminjs'
import AdminJSExpress from '@adminjs/express'
import express from 'express'

const PORT = 3000

const start = async () => {
  const app = express()

  const admin = new AdminJS({})

  const adminRouter = AdminJSExpress.buildRouter(admin)
  app.use(admin.options.rootPath, adminRouter)

  app.listen(PORT, () => {
    console.log(`AdminJS started on http://localhost:${PORT}${admin.options.rootPath}`)
  })
}

start()

Now you can start your AdminJS application.

Authenticated

To add authentication, you must use AdminJSExpress.buildAuthenticatedRouter instead of AdminJSExpress.buildRouter. Additionally, we must set up a session store to keep our session information. In the example below we will store our session in a Postgres table, we will also use connect-pg-simple to allow our session store to connect to the database.

Install additional dependencies:

$ yarn add connect-pg-simple
app.js
import AdminJS from 'adminjs'
import AdminJSExpress from '@adminjs/express'
import express from 'express'
import Connect from 'connect-pg-simple'
import session from 'express-session'

const PORT = 3000

const DEFAULT_ADMIN = {
  email: 'admin@example.com',
  password: 'password',
}

const authenticate = async (email, password) => {
  if (email === DEFAULT_ADMIN.email && password === DEFAULT_ADMIN.password) {
    return Promise.resolve(DEFAULT_ADMIN)
  }
  return null
}

const start = async () => {
  const app = express()

  const admin = new AdminJS({})

  const ConnectSession = Connect(session)
  const sessionStore = new ConnectSession({
    conObject: {
      connectionString: 'postgres://adminjs:@localhost:5432/adminjs',
      ssl: process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production',
    },
    tableName: 'session',
    createTableIfMissing: true,
  })

  const adminRouter = AdminJSExpress.buildAuthenticatedRouter(
    admin,
    {
      authenticate,
      cookieName: 'adminjs',
      cookiePassword: 'sessionsecret',
    },
    null,
    {
      store: sessionStore,
      resave: true,
      saveUninitialized: true,
      secret: 'sessionsecret',
      cookie: {
        httpOnly: process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production',
        secure: process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production',
      },
      name: 'adminjs',
    }
  )
  app.use(admin.options.rootPath, adminRouter)

  app.listen(PORT, () => {
    console.log(`AdminJS started on http://localhost:${PORT}${admin.options.rootPath}`)
  })
}

start()

As you may have noticed, the authenticate function compares credentials you submit in the form with a hardcoded DEFAULT_ADMIN object. In your case, you might want to modify authenticate function's logic to compare form credentials against real database objects.

If you plan to copy-paste this example, make sure you set the database connection string to a functional one.

Install additional dependencies:

$ yarn add connect-pg-simple
$ yarn add -D @types/connect-pg-simple @types/express-session @types/express
app.ts
import AdminJS from 'adminjs'
import AdminJSExpress from '@adminjs/express'
import express from 'express'
import Connect from 'connect-pg-simple'
import session from 'express-session'

const PORT = 3000

const DEFAULT_ADMIN = {
  email: 'admin@example.com',
  password: 'password',
}

const authenticate = async (email: string, password: string) => {
  if (email === DEFAULT_ADMIN.email && password === DEFAULT_ADMIN.password) {
    return Promise.resolve(DEFAULT_ADMIN)
  }
  return null
}

const start = async () => {
  const app = express()

  const admin = new AdminJS({})

  const ConnectSession = Connect(session)
  const sessionStore = new ConnectSession({
    conObject: {
      connectionString: 'postgres://adminjs:@localhost:5432/adminjs',
      ssl: process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production',
    },
    tableName: 'session',
    createTableIfMissing: true,
  })

  const adminRouter = AdminJSExpress.buildAuthenticatedRouter(
    admin,
    {
      authenticate,
      cookieName: 'adminjs',
      cookiePassword: 'sessionsecret',
    },
    null,
    {
      store: sessionStore,
      resave: true,
      saveUninitialized: true,
      secret: 'sessionsecret',
      cookie: {
        httpOnly: process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production',
        secure: process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production',
      },
      name: 'adminjs',
    }
  )
  app.use(admin.options.rootPath, adminRouter)

  app.listen(PORT, () => {
    console.log(`AdminJS started on http://localhost:${PORT}${admin.options.rootPath}`)
  })
}

start()

As you may have noticed, the authenticate function compares credentials you submit in the form with a hardcoded DEFAULT_ADMIN object. In your case, you might want to modify authenticate function's logic to compare form credentials against real database objects.

If you plan to copy-paste this example, make sure you set the database connection string to a functional one.

For a more complex example, please visit our .

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