ForestAdmin/lumber

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2049 stars · 104 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Lumber is a Node.js CLI tool that scaffolds and installs Forest Admin, an admin panel framework that generates a backend API and admin interface on top of your application's data models. It provides out-of-the-box CRUD, search, filters, sorting, and pagination for building back-office tools.

Use cases

• generate an admin panel for my existing database
• scaffold a back-office API from my data models
• manage application data with CRUD and search without building a UI
• set up Forest Admin in minutes via CLI
• build an internal admin dashboard for my Node.js backend
• add filters and pagination to an admin interface automatically

When to choose

• you want a quick, self-hosted admin backend generated from your data models
• you need CRUD, search, and filtering for internal ops tooling with minimal code
• you are already invested in the Forest Admin ecosystem on Node.js

When to avoid

• starting a new project - Lumber is deprecated in favor of the Forest CLI (ForestAdmin/toolbelt)
• you need a fully open-source admin panel without a hosted frontend component
• your stack is not JavaScript/Node.js based

Facets

cli-tool · maturity abandoned

cli api-framework web-framework developer-tools gui developer-tools backend web-development self-hosted apis cli cross-platform self-hosted admin-panel forest-admin deprecated crud-generation back-office code-generation mit-license nodejs

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