Customizing Backend section out of date

[debreczeni]

I am still learning the ecosystem and trying to figure out the different ways to override what's in the gems. I am trying to add a new "intro" field on the product edit form, but looking at the edgeguides it is referring to overriding views using deface, whereas the current solidus_admin repo is using ViewComponents and the view path being referred in the guides are not present anymore.

EDIT: Looking at the discussion at solidusio/solidus#4594 what would be the preferred way to update/extend/override admin views? Just copying over the relevant component files from the gem to the projects folder?
UPDATE2: I have now found this: ViewComponent/view_component#411 and this: solidusio/solidus#5099 and this: https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/blob/main/admin/docs/components.md and this: https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/blob/main/admin/docs/customizing_components.md and have gone through all of them, and tried every possible suggested way to override an admin component, even with the explicit component override, and none of them worked. I keep trying...

Solidus Version:
4.4.2 Solidus
0.3.2 Solidus Admin

To Reproduce
Visit https://github.com/solidusio/edgeguides/blob/main/docs/customization/customizing-the-backend.mdx and try to follow instructions for overriding a Product or Order view...

Current behavior
Inconsistency between edge guides and edge admin release.

Expected behavior
Edge guides should be in sync.

[debreczeni]

Went down the rabbit hole and figured what is going on, went through a little journey: solidusio/solidus#6042 and ended up with the following pull request: #141