Quickstart
Install with npx @adminiumjs/adminium, answer the setup wizard, and have an admin panel
on your own schema in a few minutes.
Adminium
Point it at a database. Get a real admin panel — one you can write to, not just look at.
export ADMINIUM_SECRET=$(openssl rand -hex 32)npx @adminiumjs/adminiumStart here
Section titled “Start here”Run with Docker
A single container, or Compose with a managed Postgres meta store.
Connect a database
PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, and SQLite — or import a schema file and connect nothing at all.
Self-host it properly
Meta-store placement, reverse proxies, secrets, upgrades, and telemetry.
What Adminium is
Section titled “What Adminium is”Adminium reads your database schema — never your rows — classifies it, and interprets that model at runtime as a working admin application: tables with filters and inline edit, detail pages that follow your foreign keys, dashboards, roles, and an audit trail.
Two things follow from “interprets at runtime”, and both matter:
- It is not a code generator. There is no
src/directory to eject into and maintain. Your schema changes; you re-introspect; the app follows. - What you export is configuration, not source.
adminium export-zipgives you the server plus its config bundle so you can move or replay an instance — it does not hand you a generated codebase. See Export & restore.
What it is not
Section titled “What it is not”- Not read-only BI. Adminium writes. That is the point — it is the internal tool your team uses to fix a stuck order, not a dashboard they screenshot.
- Not a hosted service. The whole thing is free and open source — AGPL-3.0 — and runs on your machine, your VPS, or your Kubernetes cluster with no phone-home. Telemetry is opt-in and off by default.
- Not an LLM wrapper. Schema classification is heuristic and deterministic. The LLM assist is optional, reviewable, and has a copy-paste path that performs zero network I/O.