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Admin Dashboard

Analytics, protected routes, and data tables that scale.

An admin dashboard that handles the unglamorous parts well — paginated tables over millions of rows, real role-based access, audit logs, and charts that don't crash on big datasets.

AnalyticsTablesRBACAudit log

What you'll build

  • Auth with role-based access
  • Sortable, filterable, paginated data tables
  • Charts for KPIs and trends
  • Search across resources
  • Audit log of admin actions
  • Bulk actions with confirmations

What you'll learn

  • Design a table that handles real data volumes
  • Apply RBAC without sprinkling checks everywhere
  • Wire charts to live data without the page choking
  • Capture an audit trail without slowing writes

Key flows

The end-to-end paths your data takes through the system.

Bulk action with audit

What a 'delete 250 users' click actually does.

Select rows
Confirm modal
Server validate role
Execute
Audit log entry
UI updates

Build steps

A step-by-step path. Each milestone leaves you with a working slice.

  1. 1

    Auth & roles

    Sign-in, role assignment, route guards, role-aware UI.

  2. 2

    Data table foundation

    Server-driven pagination, sorting, filtering.

  3. 3

    Charts

    Aggregated endpoints, lazy chart loads, empty states.

  4. 4

    Search

    Global command palette + per-resource search.

  5. 5

    Audit log

    Capture admin actions, viewable list, filter by actor.

  6. 6

    Bulk actions

    Confirmation, batched server work, undo where possible.

Read & study before you build

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