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Torch

Name: torch
Brand: torch
SKU: //mojotech/torch
Rating: 1.2072 (518 reviews)

Torch is a rapid admin generator for Phoenix apps. It creates custom templates and relies on the Phoenix html generator under the hood.

Installation

To install Torch, perform the following steps:

Add
```
torch
```
to your list of dependencies in
```
mix.exs
```
. Then, run
```
mix deps.get
```
:

def deps do
  [
    {:torch, "~> 3.4"}
  ]
end

Add a
```
Plug.Static
```
plug to your
```
endpoint.ex
```
:

plug(
  Plug.Static,
  at: "/torch",
  from: {:torch, "priv/static"},
  gzip: true,
  cache_control_for_etags: "public, max-age=86400"
)

Configure Torch by adding the following to your
```
config.exs
```
.

config :torch,
  otp_app: :my_app_name,
  template_format: "eex" || "slime"

Run
```
mix torch.install
```

NOTE: You can also choose to use

slime

templates, but you will need to first install Phoenix Slime and then update your configuration to specify

template_format: "slime"

Now you're ready to start generating your admin! :tada:

Usage

Torch uses Phoenix generators under the hood. Torch injects it's own custom templates into your

priv/static

directory, then runs the

mix phx.gen.html

task with the options you passed in. Finally, it uninstalls the custom templates so they don't interfere with running the plain Phoenix generators.

In light of that fact, the

torch.gen.html

task takes all the same arguments as the

phx.gen.html

, but does some extra configuration on either end. Checkout

mix help phx.gen.html

for more details about the supported options and format.

For example, if we wanted to generate a blog with a

Post

model we could run the following command:

$ mix torch.gen.html Blog Post posts title:string body:text published_at:datetime published:boolean views:integer

The output would look like:

Add the resource to your browser scope in lib/my_app_web/router.ex:

resources "/posts", PostController

Ensure the following is added to your endpoint.ex:

plug(
  Plug.Static,
  at: "/torch",
  from: {:torch, "priv/static"},
  gzip: true,
  cache_control_for_etags: "public, max-age=86400",
  headers: [{"access-control-allow-origin", "*"}]
)

:fire: Torch generated html for Posts! :fire:

Torch also installed an admin layout into your

my_app_web/templates/layout/torch.html.eex

. You will want to update it to include your new navigation link:


  Posts

There may be times when you are adding Torch into an already existing system where your application already contains the modules and controllers and you just want to use the Torch admin interface. Since the

torch.gen

mix tasks are just wrappers around the existing

phx.gen

tasks, you can use most of the same flags. To add an admin interface for

Posts

in the previous example, where the model and controller modules already exist, use the following command:

$ mix torch.gen.html Blog Post posts --no-schema --no-context --web Admin title:string body:text published_at:datetime published:boolean views:integer

Association filters

Torch does not support association filters at this time. Filtrex does not yet support them.

You can checkout these two issues to see the latest updates:

https://github.com/rcdilorenzo/filtrex/issues/55

https://github.com/rcdilorenzo/filtrex/issues/38

However, that does not mean you can't roll your own.

Example

We have a

Accounts.User

model that

has_many :credentials, Accounts.Credential

and we want to support filtering users by

credentials.email

Update the
```
Accounts
```
domain.

# accounts.ex
...
defp do_paginate_users(filter, params) do
  credential_params = Map.get(params, "credentials")
  params = Map.drop(params, ["credentials"])

  User
  |> Filtrex.query(filter)
  |> credential_filters(credential_params)
  |> order_by(^sort(params))
  |> paginate(Repo, params, @pagination)
end
defp credential_filters(query, nil), do: query
defp credential_filters(query, params) do
  search_string = "%#{params["email"]}%"
  from(u in query,
    join: c in assoc(u, :credentials),
    where: like(c.email, ^search_string),
    group_by: u.id
  )
end
...

Update form filters.

# users/index.html.eex

  Credential email

Note: You'll need to install & import

Maybe

into your views

{:maybe, "~> 1.0.0"}

for the above

eex

to work.

Styling

Torch generates two CSS themes you can use:

base.css

theme.css

. The base styles are basically bare bones, and the theme styles look like the screenshot above. Just change the stylesheet link in the

torch.html.eex

layout.

If you want to use the theme, but override the colors, you'll need to include your own stylesheet with the specific overrides.

Internationalization

Torch comes with

.po

files for

en

ru

and

es

locales. If you are using torch and can provide us with translation files for other languages, please submit a Pull Request with the translation file. We'd love to add as many translations as possible.

If you wish to add your own customized translations, you can configure Torch to use your own custom

MessagesBackend

and adding it in your Torch configuration settings in

config.exs

. You can find the all messages that can be customized in the default i18n/backend.ex file.

If you are customizing a backend for a "standard" spoken language, please submit back a proper

.po

translation file for us to include in the official Torch releases so other users can take advantage.

Example

defmodule MyApp.CustomMessagesBackend do
  def message("Contains"), do: "** CUSTOM Contains **"
  def message("Equals"), do: "** CUSTOM Equals ****"
  def message("< Prev"), do: ""), do: "-->"

You can add a fallback so it won't break with newly added messages or
messages you did not customize
  def message(text), do: Torch.I18n.Backend.message(text)
end

# config.exs
config :torch,
  otp_app: :my_app_name,
  i18n_backend: MyApp.CustomMessagesBackend
  template_format: "eex" || "slime"

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