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I understand that the typical Nova installation need not be heavily intertwined with an existing Laravel application, but I'm trying to figure out how if it would be straightforward to create a Nova app which is essentially a front end for an existing REST API built on Laravel.
Should it be reasonably easy (and a sound approach) to consume the existing admin functions in the API with a separate Laravel + Nova app instead of installing Nova alongside the existing API?
Nova is mainly an admin area. So just ask yourself this, since Nova uses the models from the laravel app, do you want to or not want to use it.
The main "meat" is laravel.
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Nova is a beautifully designed administration panel for Laravel.
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Do you need the things it offers:
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