Admin UI

[mojolicious]

Admin UI

[kraih]

After seeing a few attempts fail, i think it might help to have a few stricter requirements for an Admin UI we can merge into Minion. For starters, i propose that for the first version, fancy JavaScript frameworks are to be avoided, and we go with plain HTML. Yes, i realize that this means no real-time graphs, but those can wait for later.

There are not too many required features.

• Dashboard with stats about jobs and workers.
• Worker list with current state and links to jobs each workers is currently processing.
• Job list with support for paging and filtering based on state.
• Detail view for each job with buttons for retry and remove.
• Simple form for creating jobs.
• Menubar to navigate between the dashboard, worker list and job list.
• Very clean code that can serve as a teaching example.

Minimalism is key, if something can be left out, it should be left out.

[kraih]

Regarding the layout of the actual admin plugin, i've made a branch with an example. https://github.com/kraih/minion/compare/admin

[kraih]

It is not entirely feature complete yet, but i think this issue can be considered resolved with the new Admin UI. 😃 32c397b

[kraih]

Think we can also use this topic to collect API enhancements needed by 3rd party UIs. Like, at some point we might need a way to list active queues, or get queue statistics.

[kraih]

More statistics might be nice in general, like the number of delayed jobs currently waiting. But this needs to be done carefully, so it stays fast enough to be polled in short intervals.

[kraih]

One thing i want for sure is the ability to retry multiple jobs at once, just by selecting the right ones with a checkbox.

[kraih]

Regarding the design of the UI. Personally, i really like Hangfire, which features a very vanilla Bootstrap design, something similar could work for Minion as well.