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I just finished the Course "Laravel Nova Mastery" and bought a version of nova. I just wanted to ask, if there is somebody who use nova also for normal administration. For me it is a good tool for administrator to admin the webpage, but not for normal users. But is there a way to use parts of nova (like forms, fields, ... ) also in another admin panel which looks more like my app and has things like messenger, file uploads, ... ? Hope you know what i mean. I just want to be sure, that it is right to have two different administrations. I dont want to finish a product and then somebody say: "why didn't you do it what nova".
Nova is aimed at developers primarily. It can be used by the clients themselves, but then you'll have to teach them how to use Nova because some things will feel awkward even though for us as developers it's logical.
e.g. attaching models using a many-to-many is not straightforward, but there are community packages like nova-attach-many.
There are other alternatives such as Filament which is highly customizable, or Lean Admin (paid).
Thx @mabdullahsari . I already heard the name "Filament", but never checked it. Seems exactly what I am looking for. I will also check lean admin. But pricing is not announced yet and if it is too expensive I will go with filament. But now I will test nova at first, because for me it is perfect and really easy to use with vue. And when I do understand it right I can also just install filament form builder package to generate forms... will check it :)
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