The conference dedicated to API Platform and its ecosystem
The API Platform Admin
API Platform Admin is a tool to automatically create a beautiful and fully featured administration interface
for any API supporting the Hydra Core Vocabulary or other API specification formats supported by @api-platform/api-doc-parser
(experimental support for OpenAPI is also available).
API Platform Admin is the perfect companion of APIs created using the API Platform framework, but also supports APIs written with any other programming language or framework as long as they expose a standard Hydra API documentation.
API Platform Admin is a 100% standalone Single-Page-Application written in TypeScript with no coupling to the server part, according to the API-first paradigm.
API Platform Admin parses the API documentation then uses the awesome React Admin library to expose a nice, responsive, management interface (Create-Retrieve-Update-Delete) for all documented resource types.
You can customize everything by using provided React Admin and Material UI components, or by writing your custom React components.
Features
- Automatically generates an admin interface for all the resources of the API thanks to hypermedia features of Hydra
- Generates 'list', 'create', 'show', and 'edit' screens, as well as a delete button
- Generates suitable inputs and fields according to the API doc (e.g. number HTML input for numbers, checkbox for booleans, selectbox for relationships...)
- Generates suitable inputs and fields according to Schema.org types if available (e.g. email field for
http://schema.org/email
) - Handles relationships
- Supports pagination
- Supports filters and ordering
- Automatically validates whether a field is mandatory client-side according to the API description
- Sends proper HTTP requests to the API and decodes them using Hydra and JSON-LD formats
- Nicely displays server-side errors (e.g. advanced validation)
- Supports real-time updates with Mercure
- 100% customizable
What' new?

Sep 15,16 2022: new edition of our conference dedicated to API Platform and its ecosystem!
The Distribution: Create Powerful APIs with Ease
The API Component
- General Design Considerations
- GraphQL Support
- Enabling GraphQL
- Changing Location of the GraphQL Endpoint
- GraphiQL
- GraphQL Playground
- Modifying or Disabling the Default IDE
- Request with application/graphql Content-Type
- Operations
- Queries
- Mutations
- Subscriptions
- Workflow of the Resolvers
- Events
- Filters
- Pagination
- Security
- Serialization Groups
- Exception and Error
- Name Conversion
- Custom Types
- Modify the Extracted Types
- Changing the Serialization Context Dynamically
- Export the Schema in SDL
- Handling File Upload
- Change Default Descriptions
- Filters
- Doctrine ORM and MongoDB ODM Filters
- Elasticsearch Filters
- Serializer Filters
- Creating Custom Filters
- ApiFilter Attribute
- The Serialization Process
- Overall Process
- Available Serializers
- The Serialization Context, Groups and Relations
- Using Serialization Groups
- Using Serialization Groups per Operation
- Embedding Relations
- Property Normalization Context
- Calculated Field
- Changing the Serialization Context Dynamically
- Changing the Serialization Context on a Per-item Basis
- Name Conversion
- Decorating a Serializer and Adding Extra Data
- Entity Identifier Case
- Embedding the JSON-LD Context
- Collection Relation
- Validation
- Validating Submitted Data
- Using Validation Groups
- Using Validation Groups on Operations
- Dynamic Validation Groups
- Sequential Validation Groups
- Validating Delete Operations
- Error Levels and Payload Serialization
- Validation on Collection Relations
- Open Vocabulary Generated from Validation Metadata
- Specification property restrictions
- Overriding Default Order
- OpenAPI Specification Support (formerly Swagger)
- Using the OpenAPI Command
- Overriding the OpenAPI Specification
- Using the OpenAPI and Swagger Contexts
- Changing the Name of a Definition
- Changing Operations in the OpenAPI Documentation
- Changing the Location of Swagger UI
- Using a custom Asset Package in Swagger UI
- Overriding the UI Template
- Compatibility Layer with Amazon API Gateway
- OAuth
- Info Object
- Pushing Related Resources Using HTTP/2
- Using External Vocabularies
- URL Generation Strategy
- NelmioApiDocBundle Integration
- Bootstraping the core library
The Schema Generator Component
- Configuration
- Customizing PHP Namespaces
- Forcing a Field Range
- Forcing a Field Cardinality
- Forcing a Relation Table Name
- Forcing (or Disabling) a Class Parent
- Forcing a Class to be Abstract
- Define Operations
- Forcing a Nullable Property
- Forcing a Unique Property
- Making a Property Read-Only
- Making a Property Write-Only
- Forcing a Property to be in a Serialization Group
- Forcing an Embeddable Class to be Embedded
- Author PHPDoc
- Disabling Generators and Creating Custom Ones
- Skipping Accessor Method Generation
- Disabling the id Generator
- Generating UUIDs
- User submitted UUIDs
- Generating Custom IDs
- Disabling Usage of Doctrine Collections
- Changing the Field Visibility
- Generating @Assert\Type Annotations
- Forcing Doctrine Inheritance Mapping Annotation
- Interfaces and Doctrine Resolve Target Entity Listener
- Custom Schemas
- Checking GoodRelation Compatibility
- PHP File Header
- Full Configuration Reference