[RFC] Remove the List button

Sometimes making a UI better means removing things. I feel that the ActionBar is usually too cluttered, and I’m thinking about how to make it smaller, or even how to remove it completely.

My first suspect is the List button.

Whenever a user is in a Show, Edit, or Create view, the List button gives a way to go back to the list. But there are already two other such ways:

• clicking on the back button (if coming from the list)
• clicking on the resource name in the menu (unless it’s a resource without menu entry)

So I think this List button is useless 90% of the time.

I suggest we remove it from the default ShowActions, EditActions, and CreateActions. React-admin can still export the ListButton component for people who actually need it for a good purpose.

Thoughts?

[fzaninotto]

@ashim-k-saha You don’t need to store a configuration: just create your own version of the List component with all the actions and bulkActions you use by default, like so:

const MyList = ({ children, ...props }) => (
   <List actions={<MyActions />} bulkActions={<MyBulkActions />}> {...props}>
        {children}
    </List>
)

then use it instead of react-admin’s List component in your List views:

const PostList = props => (
    <MyList {...props}>
        ...
    </MyList>
)

[fzaninotto]

Thanks for your comments, we’ll remove the List Button. See #2115 for details.