Models
Your models are located in /models. They control a big part of your Forest UI.
When you install for the first time, Lumber introspects your database and generates your models accordingly.
Afterwards, here's how your database changes can be rendered in your Forest UI:
Lumber does some of the work for you. However, you remain in control of your models.
On the following page, we'll cover how you can enrich your models:
On server start, a .forestadmin-schema.json file will be auto-generated in local (development) environments only. It reflects:
the state of your models (in
/models).your Forest Admin customisation (in
/forest).
This file must be versioned and deployed for any remote environment (staging, production, etc.), as it will be used to generate your Forest UI.
We use the environment variable NODE_ENV to detect if an environment is in development. Setting this variable to either nothing or development will regenerate a new .forestadmin-schema.json file every time your app restarts. Using another value will not regenerate the file.
A consequence of the above is, in Production the .forestadmin-schema.json file does not update according to your schema changes.
Do not edit this file, as it could break your interface if the wrong syntax is used.
Versioning the.forestadmin-schema.json file will also help you visualize your changes:
To disable automatic Forest Admin schema updates and do it manually, follow this how-to.
