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11th of November 2016
Moving from Donationware to Trustware

After a lot of consideration, I’ve decided that instead of asking for donations, we should charge a small fee for commercial use. This should still bring a small revenue, but hopefully it will be more than donations and it will be enough to justify spending more time on Backpack. I already clock around 20 hours a week, imagine what Backpack would become at 40. Initial feedback was that it's only f...

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29th of November 2016
Nested resources in Backpack CRUD

Sometimes you'll have one resource that depends on another one. For example, you might have: a Post model; a User model; The admins could see all posts, of course. But if you might want to see only one user's posts. Sometimes, you don't want to be using a filter. You just want to go from a User to that User's posts. In this case, you can create a nested resource. Basically you'd be creating a th...

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