PanelJS now mounts on TypeORM

PanelJS was built so the UI never talks to an ORM. It talks to schema JSON. That split is why a second adapter could ship without a second admin.

@paneljs/typeorm is that adapter. Express is still the HTTP layer. register("User") is still the product.

What you pass in

TypeORM has no schema.prisma file to compile. After dataSource.initialize(), the adapter reads live entityMetadatas and maps them into the same field model Prisma already produces.

import { createAdmin } from "paneljs";
import { mount } from "@paneljs/express";
import { typeormAdapter } from "@paneljs/typeorm";

await dataSource.initialize();

const admin = createAdmin({
  adapter: typeormAdapter({ dataSource }),
  auth: { getCurrentUser },
});

admin.register("User");
admin.register("Post");
await mount(app, admin);

Register names are entity names: the @Entity() class name or EntitySchema name. Table names do not matter. The DataSource must already be initialized; the adapter throws if it is not.

Built-in login

If you want /admin/login instead of getCurrentUser, add the auth entities to the same DataSource:

import { builtInAuthEntities, typeormAdapter } from "@paneljs/typeorm";

const dataSource = new DataSource({
  type: "postgres",
  url: process.env.DATABASE_URL,
  entities: [...appEntities, ...builtInAuthEntities({ identifier: "email" })],
});

Then auth: { mode: "built-in", identifier: "email" }. Do not register("ExpressAdminUser").

Create the first operator with the shared CLI after exporting the initialized adapter and built-in auth settings from paneljs.config.mjs:

npx paneljs createsuperuser --config ./paneljs.config.mjs

Install

From an existing Express + TypeORM app:

npx paneljs@latest init --framework express --orm typeorm --yes

That adds paneljs, @paneljs/express, and @paneljs/typeorm. It does not rewrite your source. Peer: typeorm ^0.3.20.

What did not change

Lists, forms, permissions, scope(), hooks, and the HTTP API are the same. Custom actions receive client as the DataSource. Use typeormActionWhere("id", where) from @paneljs/typeorm instead of spreading where into a repository call.

Full install: Express + TypeORM. Adapter notes: TypeORM adapter.