Most admin tools force you to choose between two bad options: build the
whole thing yourself, or run a SaaS in a separate browser tab. flowpanel
is the middle path — a typed dashboard that lives at `/admin` in your
Next.js app, built from one config file.

## The premises

**Your schema is the contract.** Adding a column to a Drizzle table or
Prisma model should add a column to the admin. Renaming a field should
be a type-error in the config, not a silent visual bug. flowpanel
infers the row type from your `resource(ref, ...)` ref — `$inferSelect`
on Drizzle tables, the augmented model map on Prisma — so the admin
stays type-checked against the source of truth.

**Config first, source last.** Most resources need a typed CRUD UI with
filters, sort, and pagination. Some need a custom column renderer. A
few need a fully custom drawer. flowpanel ships three customization
layers — config props, theme slots, and eject — so you reach for the
heaviest tool only when the lighter ones won't do.

**Self-hostable, MIT.** No platform lock-in. The admin runs in your
existing Next.js process. You can self-host it, eject it, or remove it
without rewriting the rest of your app.

## What flowpanel is _not_

- **Not a no-code platform.** flowpanel produces typed React code; you
  read and modify TypeScript, not JSON in a UI builder.
- **Not a CMS.** It doesn't model your content schema for you — it
  introspects the schema you already have.
- **Not a replacement for prod tooling.** Use Datadog, Sentry, Better
  Stack for ops. flowpanel is for the team's everyday CRUD surface.