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Developing on Forest Admin
One of the goals of Forest Admin is empowering technical teams to achieve more in less time: in other words, giving them the means to create and maintain a great admin panel in as little time as possible.
Your Forest Admin panel is composed of 2 parts - the frontend (UI) and the backend - and for each one you need the right tools:
The Admin backend is part of your codebase. As a result, you'll be using your own favorite tools to customize it:
- Editing: your favorite IDE
- Versioning: your favorite versioning tool (git, svn, mercurial, etc)
Your Forest Admin UI is not part of your codebase: it is managed on Forest Admin servers. As a result, you depend on Forest Admin tools to customize it. Here's what we've built for you:
For a simple and hands-on example of how to develop on Forest Admin according to our recommended development workflow, see this page.
For a more complete view showcasing each possible scenario of the recommended development workflow, we've drawn the following state diagram:

In the next pages, we'll cover each step in details.
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