Laravel Nova is an administrative dashboard designed for Laravel web applications. It provides a polished and customizable interface for managing data within your application. Developed by the Laravel team, Nova integrates seamlessly with Laravel, offering a range of features that make it a powerful tool for developers looking to build admin panels quickly and efficiently. Here are some of its key features:
Resource Management: Nova allows you to define resources, which represent the models in your application. Each resource can be managed through a set of predefined interfaces for creating, reading, updating, and deleting (CRUD) records.
Custom Tools: You can extend Nova by creating custom tools. This allows you to add specific functionalities that are not available out-of-the-box, catering to the unique needs of your application.
Lenses: Lenses provide a way to define custom queries and views for your resources. This is useful for creating specialized views of your data that go beyond the standard resource listing.
Actions: Actions in Nova let you perform tasks on a resource or multiple resources. For example, you can define an action to send emails to selected users or to perform batch updates.
Metrics: Nova includes support for creating custom metrics, allowing you to display insightful data and trends within your admin dashboard. These metrics can be displayed as value metrics, trend metrics, or partition metrics.
Filters: Filters allow users to narrow down the displayed data according to specific criteria. Nova makes it easy to define these filters and apply them to your resource listings.
Authorization: Nova leverages Laravel's built-in authorization system to control access to resources and actions. You can define policies and gates to ensure that only authorized users can perform certain actions.
Customizable UI: The appearance of Nova can be customized to fit the branding and design needs of your application. You can adjust the look and feel to ensure consistency with the rest of your application.
Searchable: Nova includes powerful search capabilities, allowing users to quickly find records across all resources in the application.
Localization: Nova supports multiple languages, making it a great choice for applications that need to cater to a diverse user base.