React-admin: Add a footer to the admin

[jcornide]

It would be good to have footer area where to put some basic information and links that might be helpful for the admin users.

If you could include it the same way you could include it with the appBar it would be great

[geeofree]

:wave: Hola! Would love to work on this!

[fzaninotto]

@geeofree it's yours!

[geeofree]

Hey :wave: sorry for the late reception :sweat: was busy for awhile but am starting to pick up on development with this today, I'd like to know what kind of initial information should be on the footer?

Would having something like Powered by react-admin v2.3.3 be okay?

[fzaninotto]

I think no footer should be the default. We don't want to bother developers with a mention that every single team would have to remove.

[jcornide]

I think no footer should be the default. We don't want to bother developers with a mention that every single team would have to remove.

Agree, just and empty footer and example on the documentation on how to add it would be great!

[tjgragg]

Any updates on this feature?

[waynebloss]

The following adds a fixed footer. You can also make position relative or absolute.

<React.Fragment>
  <Admin authProvider={authProvider} dataProvider={jsonDataProvider}>
    <Resource {...Comments} />
    <Resource {...Posts} />
    <Resource {...Users} />
  </Admin>
  <div style={{
    position: 'fixed', right: 0, bottom: 0, left: 0, zIndex: 100,
    padding: 6,
    backgroundColor: '#efefef',
    textAlign: 'center',
  }}><strong>HELLO</strong></div>
</React.Fragment>

[fzaninotto]

@waynebloss Thanks for the post. Indeed, it is so easy to do that we shouldn't worry about including it in react-admin. The only thing that it would provide is the support for theme, which can be achieved otherwise.

So tis enhancement is downgraded to very low priority, and we might even close it in the future.

[fzaninotto]

Yep, let's close it. Footer design is a rabbit hole that we'd better not go down to. since it's achievable in userland, react-admin doesn't need to be changed.

[tjgragg]

It's easy to do if you don't need to make an API call and have the footer use react-admin's redux Provider, which is what I would really like to do.

[fzaninotto]

That you can do with a custom layout.

[tjgragg]

Maybe I was doing it wrong, but it seems like using a custom layout forces someone to create every piece yourself. Is there a way to use custom layout and have “MyAppBar” and “MySidebar” and “MyMenu” and “MyNotification” still be the default, standard react-admin components?
(reference: https://marmelab.com/react-admin/Theming.html#using-a-custom-layout)

[fzaninotto]

Since default AppBar, Sidebar, Menu and Notification components are exported, you can totally reuse them in your own layout. The documentatoin is probably incomplete about it. Would you mind updating it once you've understood how to reuse layout components?