Forest Admin is an admin panel framework which provides out-of-the-box all common admin tasks: CRUD operations, simple chart rendering, user group management and a WYSIWYG interface editor.

If you're reading this, you've probably already installed Forest Admin. Otherwise head over to https://www.forestadmin.com/ and click "Install Forest Admin".

Once you've got Forest Admin up and running, check out our Setup Guide.

One of the recommended steps is to Deploy to Production. This will unlock the use of our Forest CLI which lets you develop according to our recommended Development Workflow.

To develop on Forest Admin, you need to install Forest CLI:

$ npm install -g forest-cli

After you've cloned your team's Forest Admin repository, use the following command from that directory to get your first development environment (a.k.a branch):

$ forest branch <your-branch-name>

A branch is a fork of your Production environment's UI. Any layout changes should be done - using the Layout Editor mode - from your (local) branch and later deployed to Production.

Note this process only handles your admin frontend's changes, not your admin backend's code updates which should be versioned and deployed separately. Check out our recommended Development Workflow for more information.