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Vibe Example

💡 TL;DR - Vibe for graphs, maps, trees, cards

Use genai-logic genai-add-app --vibe to generate a standard react app.

This page illustrates a number of customizations to the northwind sample (samples/nw_sample in the Manager). These are shown below.

These customizations were performed in VSCode using CoPilot, with the Claude Sonnet 4 Agent.

Copilot Summary

Here is the final transcript from CoPilot - it seems pleased with its work!

Demos, Tutorials, Samples

Fantastic! 🎉 I'm thrilled that everything is working perfectly now!

What We've Successfully Accomplished:

  • Employee List/Cards Toggle ✅

    • List view: Traditional data grid
    • Cards view: Beautiful card layout with employee photos
    • PhotoPath image support in both cards and show pages
    • Professional styling with hover effects and responsive design

  • Employee Show Page ✅

    • Single, prominent photo display at the top (no duplicates!)
    • Comprehensive employee information in a clean grid layout
    • Proper image handling with fallback avatars
    • Seamless navigation from department tree → employee grid → employee details

  • Department Tree View ✅

    • Hierarchical expandable tree with +/- icons for incremental expansion
    • Split-panel interface with department details on the right
    • Professional tabbed layout using Material-UI tabs
    • Employee grid display with clickable navigation to employee details

  • Supplier Map View Summary ✅

    • Interactive World Map: Displays suppliers as red markers on a Leaflet.js world map with country-based positioning

    • Dual View Toggle: Switch between traditional list view and geographic map view using Material-UI toggle buttons

    • Click Navigation: Click markers or popup buttons to navigate directly to individual supplier detail pages

    • Info Panel: Overlay showing supplier count (29 total) with usage instructions and map legend

    • Global Coverage: Supports 20+ countries with fallback handling for unknown locations

  • Technical Excellence ✅

    Robust error handling and data type consistency Proper React Admin component patterns Material-UI integration with consistent styling Clean, maintainable code structure

This implementation provides a truly professional and intuitive user experience for navigating department hierarchies and employee information. The combination of the tree view, image support, and tabbed interfaces creates a modern, enterprise-quality application!


Setup

Node is required.

In the Manager, samples/nw_sample has already been created. You will need to npm install and npm start.

If you want to start from scratch (e.g. to mimic the process with your own database):

Vibe Kickstart
genai-logic create --project-name=nw, --db-url=nw

# Open the project in your IDE, and issue Termimal commands:
genai-logic genai-add-app

Then, proceed with npm install and npm start.

The Landing Page Graphics requires you genai-logic genai-graphics. For more information, click here.

Generated Apps do not yet support security; you must disable security: als add-auth --provider-type=None


Landing Page with Graphs

nw-landing

We first created the graphics, as described here.

We then requested a landing page (no hints on product architecture, by the way... we did not ask where it acquired this information).

Prompt -- Landing Page with Graphics
In ui/reference_react_app, create a landing page that summarizes the architecture, and iFrame to "http://localhost:5656/dashboard"


Employee Cards

nw-cards

This example was easy and worked the first time:

Prompt -- Employee Cards
Add an option on the Employee List page to show results as cards, and 
show the employee image in the card.


Department Tree

nw-landing

The examples above worked the first time. The tree and map took many hours to work out. See the discussion in the Appendix.

Prompt -- Department Tree
Create a Department tree view component for the existing Department list page. 

Make it collapsible/expandable and integrate it into the existing Department.js file.

The tree should show just the Department Name as a link; 
clicking the link opens an Information panel to the right.
The panel is equivalent to Department Show: all the fields, plus tab sheets for related data.
The tab sheets should provide transitions to the related data show pages (eg, the Employee page).


Supplier Map

nw-landing

As with the tree, this took many hours to work out.

Prompt -- Supplier Map
Enhance supplier list page to include a toggle for a professional, interactive world map view.
The map should display supplier icons on a real map with proper geography.  
Click a supplier icon should open the Supplier show page.

Required Learnings

The screenshot below shows how this worked in VSCode:

  1. GenAI-Logic project creation automatically included learnings for creating maps.

  2. Your prompt, plus the learnings, created the revised page.

    • Observe it differs from the screen shot below. GenAI does not produce the same result every time!

vibe-process


Learnings Creation

It took many hours (not days) to build the learnings shown above. If you wish to build similar learnings for other UI paradidigms, the process is roughly:

  1. Make a request
  2. Iterate the request as required (this is the part that took hours)
  3. When the result is good, ask the GenAI tool to provide a prompt that is simple, and would have achieved the result without hours of iteration
  4. Create a file with the suggested prompt in the directory shown above