Rafiki React Administration Framework

A lightweight React framework for creating administration / management portals.

Features

• Pluggable authentication — swap between JWT, fake (dev), or custom providers
• Pluggable menu generation — static or dynamically loaded menu structures
• Capability-based access control — glob-pattern requirements on menu items
• Generic CRUD components — type-safe list, form, and list+edit page components built on Material-UI

Installation

npm install @sandtreader/rafiki

Peer dependencies: React 18, MUI 5, Emotion.

Quick start

import {
  Framework,
  FakeAuthenticationProvider,
  StaticMenuProvider,
  MenuStructure,
} from '@sandtreader/rafiki';

const authProvider = new FakeAuthenticationProvider();
const rootMenu = new MenuStructure('root', 'root');
const menuProvider = new StaticMenuProvider(rootMenu);

function App() {
  return (
    <Framework
      authProvider={authProvider}
      menuProvider={menuProvider}
      title="My Admin Portal"
    />
  );
}

Core concepts

Framework

The top-level Framework component provides the app shell (AppBar + Drawer + content area) and manages the login/logout flow.

<Framework
  authProvider={authProvider}
  menuProvider={menuProvider}
  title="My Portal"
  onSessionChange={(session) => console.log(session)}
/>

Authentication providers

Implement AuthenticationProvider for custom auth:

interface AuthenticationProvider {
  login(userId: string, password: string): Promise<SessionState>;
  logout(session: SessionState): Promise<void>;
}

Built-in providers:

• JWTAuthenticationProvider(url) — POST credentials to a URL, expects a JWT response
• FakeAuthenticationProvider — dev-only (credentials: admin/admin or test/foo)

Menu structure

Menus are hierarchical and defined as MenuStructure objects. Use fromLiteral() for concise definitions:

const menu = MenuStructure.fromLiteral({
  id: 'users', name: 'Users', icon: 'people',
  requirements: ['admin.*'],
  content: <UsersPage />,
  children: [
    { id: 'roles', name: 'Roles', icon: 'badge', content: <RolesPage /> },
  ],
});

• icon — Material Design icon name
• requirements — glob patterns matched against the session's capabilities array; item is hidden if the user lacks a matching capability
• content — JSX element or factory function (item: MenuStructure) => JSX.Element

Menus support dynamic loading (webpack dynamic imports) — see src/example/App.tsx.

ListEditPage

A complete CRUD interface combining list view, search/filter, and form dialogs:

<ListEditPage<User>
  typeName="User"
  fetchItems={() => api.getUsers()}
  createItem={(id) => api.createUser(id)}
  cloneItem={(source, newId) => api.cloneUser(source, newId)}
  saveItem={(item, old) => api.saveUser(item)}
  deleteItem={(item) => api.deleteUser(item)}
  columns={[
    { key: 'id', label: 'ID' },
    { key: 'name', label: 'Name' },
  ]}
  fields={[
    { key: 'id', label: 'ID', validate: (v) => !!v },
    { key: 'name', label: 'Name' },
  ]}
/>

BasicForm

Multi-intent form that renders differently based on FormIntent (View, ViewWithEdit, Edit, Create). Supports custom field rendering, validation, and array fields displayed as chips, tables, or checklists (BasicFormFieldArrayStyle).

FormIntent lifecycle

Components use FormIntent to drive their behaviour:

Intent	Behaviour
View	Read-only display
ViewWithEdit	Read-only with an edit button
Edit	Editable fields, save/cancel
Create	Editable fields for a new item

Types

All domain objects must implement HasUniqueId:

interface HasUniqueId {
  id: string | number;
}

Development

npm install
npm start            # run the example app
npm test             # run tests (watch mode)
npm run lint         # check formatting
npm run format       # auto-format
npm run build:lib    # build library to dist/
npm run publish:lib  # build + publish to npm