A New Admin Dashboard: Built for Extensibility

Announcing the New Vendure Admin Dashboard

We are thrilled to announce the launch of our brand-new Admin Dashboard.

Vendure has always been loved by developers for its extensibility and developer experience. But the admin dashboard never quite matched the high standards set by the rest of the platform.

So, we rebuilt it from the ground up. We asked ourselves: if we took everything we've learned, what could we build? The result is a new dashboard built on three key principles: developer experience, clean architecture, and unmatched extensibility.

Built for Customisation

Our goal with Vendure is to ensure you are never limited by your tools, and we have gotten far in this regard thanks to our core architecture.

However, for far too long, customising the admin UI involved friction, boilerplate, and workarounds.

The new dashboard addresses that.

It's built on a modern React tech stack that's familiar and easy to work with. While it covers all the core e-commerce features you'd expect out of the box, it really shines when it comes to customising it.

This new foundation makes it dramatically easier to add new features.

• No More Boilerplate: The new architecture is tightly integrated with Vendure's GraphQL API, providing you with always up-to-date type safety for your queries.

  This makes it straightforward to build custom pages and components to interact with all your store's data.

• Straightforward Extensibility: You can now add every UI element or "Page Blocks", with minimal configuration.

  Using the integrated Dev mode and dashboard plugin API, you can cleanly inject your own React components directly into specific locations on any dashboard page, or add entirely new pages using a data-driven approach.

Get Started with the New Dashboard

The new Admin Dashboard is available now. We've prepared several resources to help you get started, whether you're migrating an existing project or building a new one.

We encourage you to explore the new architecture and see the developer experience for yourself.

• Dashboard Getting Started Guide: The complete guide to building your first plugin, understanding the new APIs, and migrating.
• Live Dashboard Demo: Get a feel for the new UI and the out-of-the-box features.
• Component Storybook: Browse the full library of React components available for your customisations.

We're incredibly proud of this release and believe it's a huge step forward for the platform.

We can't wait to see what you build with it.