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Angular Material Admin Template Update

Posted on June 8, 2022June 3, 2023 by Mark Feehily0

Angular Material Admin is updated and use latest dependencies.

What products are affected by the update?

Currently, the updates were released on 2 products:

Angular Material Admin Template Full
Angular Material Admin .NET Core

What has changed?

The main update is touch the version of Angular itself, now the template are built on 13 version instead of 11.

And also we made several minor changes that make this admin dashboard template up-to-date.

Updated the Angular CLI to 13
Update Angular Material;
Updated different packages;
Updated Angular Core to 13 version.

Moving forward and Summing Up

We will be constantly updating all our Angular templates. For sure we will release this year a template based on Angular 14.

Rest of our Angular templates your can find here: Flatlogic marketplace. If you face any difficulties setting up this or that template or admin dashboard, please feel free to leave us a message on our forum, Twitter or Facebook. We will respond to your inquiry as quickly as possible!

And also check our platform where you can create Angular CRUD apps literally in minutes!

Happy developing!

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356: Amit Sheen

Posted on February 23, 2022May 21, 2023 by Mark Feehily0

I got to talk with Amit Sheen this week about his journey into creative coding. Even his early work is incredibly interesting and recent work is downright stunning. Now he’s entering a phase of sharing what he knows with workshops like Pushing CSS to the Limit. Here’s a list of Pens we talk about in the podcast (mostly):

Bubbling – https://codepen.io/amit_sheen/pen/BxQqxz

Turning pages – https://codepen.io/amit_sheen/pen/WNweryv

Bouncing off the walls – https://codepen.io/amit_sheen/pen/abBgWvJ

House of CSS cards – https://codepen.io/amit_sheen/pen/QWGjRKR

FlipBoxes – https://codepen.io/amit_sheen/pen/YzQoMxR

RadioPoles – https://codepen.io/amit_sheen/pen/RwZwGVQ

3D Wobbly Disco – https://codepen.io/amit_sheen/pen/LYLQQpW4D

4D SimplexNoise – https://codepen.io/amit_sheen/pen/XWgVKxO

Typing effect – https://codepen.io/amit_sheen/pen/YzZYoMV

Text morphing – https://codepen.io/amit_sheen/pen/xxqYzvm

csStickman – https://codepen.io/amit_sheen/pen/abLPdoQ

The Lonely Claw – https://codepen.io/amit_sheen/pen/yLzWVYo

Newton’s CSS cradle – https://codepen.io/amit_sheen/pen/XWMXwvJ

Table tenniCSS – https://codepen.io/amit_sheen/pen/PobQjMX

Time Jumps

00:22 Guest introduction

01:17 2018 Pens

03:14 Smashing Magazine workshop

04:21 Bubbling

07:01 Turning pages

11:29 Sponsor: Retool

12:53 csStickman

17:24 The Lonely Claw

23:29 Bouncing off the walls

26:22 Cheat codes for successful

31:34 Text morphing

34:26 Table tenniCSS

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12 JavaScript Image Manipulation Libraries for Your Next Web App

Posted on February 10, 2022May 21, 2023 by Mark Feehily0

Today we would like to talk to you on a topic most interesting – JavaScript image manipulation libraries. And, to be more precise – those JavaScript image manipulation libraries that definitely deserve your particular attention when you develop your next spectacular web app. But, let’s not get ahead of ourselves and firstly answer the question “What is an Image Manipulation Library?”

What is an Image Manipulation Library

Let’s start with a simple description. An image manipulation library or IML is a tool that’s main goal is to help you systemize, organize and manipulate graphic elements of your app in different ways. Different image manipulation libraries typically serve different purposes and can perform such goals as cropping the images, resizing them, converting them from one format to another, improving their quality and many-many more. So, all and all, a tool to use when making a web app. Unless, of course, you want to make a dull monochrome app that contains no images whatsoever, which is an unrealistic scenario in a modern world, where design can make or break an app just as easily as its functionality or usability.

What does JavaScript Image Manipulation Libraries bring to the table?

The next question to discuss when is the reasoning for choosing an image manipulation library, based on JavaScript, for your next web app instead of, for example, C++-based ones. The answer is simple: even though at first glance JavaScript IMLs are metaphorically heavier, they are reliable and can create some simply astounding result.

The practical usage of some of the entries you are going to see in this article in a short time is a thing of beauty and will do nothing less than improve the development of your next web app by easing the work with the images. So, without any further delays, let’s get down to the list.

JavaScript Image Manipulation Libraries

Pica

Pica is a prime tool for in-browser image resizing, most useful when you want to reduce an exceedingly large image into a suitable one in order to save upload time. It avoids the pixelation of an image and works at a suitably fast pace. It serves a great amount of server resources on image processing and can reuse your images into thumbnails in the browser. What’s also great about Pica is the fact that it auto selects such technologies as web workers, webassembly, createImageBitmap, pure JS, etc. automatically, so there is no need for you to do it yourself.

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Lena.js

Lena.js can be described as a very simple, yet nice and neat image redactor and processor. It has a number (22 to be precise) image filters that you can play around with to improve your image. Lena.js is very small in size and has a killer feature that allows you to add your own filters, as it’s code is open to anyone at GitHub.

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Jimp

Jimp stands for JavaScript image manipulation program and it does what it says on the tin a flawless fashion. Written for Node, this entirely JavaScript image processing library has zero native dependencies. It also has no external dependencies either, which makes it quite universal. Jimp can help you with such tasks as blitting, blurring, colouring, containing images and many others. What also advantages Jimp is its Node.js syntax that is will prove an easy use for people with Python or C++ primary prior experience.

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Grade

Grade (not a big surprise) is another JS library on our list. Its main selling point is producing complementary gradients that are automatically generated based on 2 colours that are determined predominant in the selected images. Such an effect allows your site or app to seem more seamless. Grade is an easy to use plugin that will add an aura of visually pleasing aesthetic to your finished product, which is always nice for both you and the end user.

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MarvinJ

Now let’s get to a more intrinsically complex JavaScript image manipulation library. MarvinJ is a powerful Marvin Framework derivative that offers quite a number of algorithms for the images’ colour and appearance manipulation. It allows you to have an easier working process when it comes to such image processing fundamentals as corners and shapes, as MarvinJ is able to detect these features automatically. This way it simplifies the process of cropping out the image and even makes it more or less automated. And isn’t it, after all, the dream – to leave the tedious and boring thing like cropping the elements out to the machines while you can concentrate on more time-, imagination- and expertise-consuming tasks?

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Compressor.js

And now back to the simpler stuff. Compressor.js’s whole schtick is in the name – it handles the image compression and does it well. All thanks to the canvas.toBlob API that allows you to set the compression output quality of the image in the range from 0 to 1.

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Fabric.js

Does your next web app need such simple, yet if used correctly, shapes as rectangles, circles, triangles and other polygons? May it be so that it requires more complex shapes? If the answer is “Yes” to any or both of the questions then Fabric.js is your guy – it will not only create all these shapes for you, but also allow you to manipulate every aspect of it, such as sizes, positions and rotations of the objects. But wait, there is more: control all the attributes of the upper-mentioned objects: colours, level of transparency. level of depth position and so on.

You might have noticed that we haven’t said a thing about images. But that meal is also on the menu, as Fabric.js allows to convert SVG images into JavaScript data and insert it into the canvas of the project. So, that’s killing two birds with one stone: cool shapes and SVG images in your apps code.

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CamanJS

And, once again, to the more complex JavaScript image manipulation libraries. CamanJS is a combination of fantastic and sometimes quite advanced techniques and an intuitive interface. You can use presets and filters or tinker around toggling them yourself. The cherry on top is the ability to add your own filters and plugins, as well as constant updating, that bring new features and functions.

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Cropper.js

We duly hope that you are not tired of the “simple-complex” swings of our list, as here comes another simpler JavaScript image manipulation library. It allows you to crop the needed images, as well as scaling, rotating and zooming around the image. But the nicest thing about this JSIML is the ability to set the aspect ratio on the picture and crop accordingly.

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Merge Images

A unique entree of this list, as Merge Images doesn’t crop or skew or rotate the images. We hope, you’ve already guessed what this one does – it merges the given images onto one canvas, ridding you of the need to transform them into code and working on a canvas (pun intended).

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Blurify

This JavaScript image manipulation library is tiny, as it weighs less than 2 kb. But it’s effectiveness doesn’t allow us to not include it on the list, as it downgrades the pictures that you provide it with, and does it gracefully.

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Doka

Doka is a JIML which will provide you with a variety of image editing. It has a rich UI that warms your soul if needed. The support for React, Vue, Svelte, Angular, jQuery is also a nice and needed touch during the working upon the images. You will get around and understand this Library quite quickly.

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Conclusions to have

And that’s the list. Conclusions to have are quite simple: your next project will benefit from using these JavaScript image manipulation libraries, as it will get you free from performing mundane tasks and you will find yourself in love with them in no time.

Start with one, if you feel cautious, add more if you feel adventurous, as it may actually require some tinkering to work the way you want it to work.

That’s it for today. Thanks for reading this article and stay tuned for our new ones!

Bonus! Creating Applications with Flatlogic Platform

We’ve covered JavaScript libraries for image manipulation. Now let us take a look at a quicker and easier way to create Applications. Sometimes an application must have specific features or peculiarities we have to craft by hand. Still, the bulk of all Apps work similarly and can be built from the same blocks. We created the Flatlogic Platform to do just that. It requires no special expertise, only a few choices. Let’s see what they are!

#1: Name the Project

This step is rather straightforward. Name your project so it’s easier to find and recognize.

#2: Define Tech Stack

Next, we’ll choose the technologies our App’s components will run on. In the example above we’ve chosen React, NodeJS, and PostgreSQL for front-end, backend, and database, respectively.

#3: Choose the Design

Choose the design type that appeals to you the most. You might spend a lot of time with this interface, so choose carefully!

#4: Create Database Schema

The integrated schema editor is rather easy to master. It lets you define fields, columns, and data types for the database. If you’re short on time, just pick one of the ready schemas.

#5: Finish the App

It’s time to review your choices and click “Finish”. Check the “Connect GIT repository” box if you want to. After a brief compilation, your App will be yours to deploy and use. Great job, sir or madam!

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Bootstrap Templates: Top 19 for 2022

Posted on February 2, 2022June 3, 2023 by 0

Introduction
Pure JavaScript Bootstrap Templates
Awesome React Admin Templates
Useful Angular Admin Dashboards
Vue Admin Dashboard Templates
Which Bootstrap Templates To Choose
About Flatlogic
Suggested Articles

Bootstrap Templates: Introduction

If you are reading this article, that means that you are moving with the times, because the demand for Bootstrap templates is expected to grow. That’s because of the current situation in the world about the pandemic. We are not going to hype out of that, it’s a very serious and mournful situation. We want to underline the consequence: people stay at home and this is essential to move your activity online. For example, if you have a business, make an app for it, if you dreamed about developing some specific application, put your idea into practice!

The best way to create a web app is by using templates. They provide fast, well-coded, documented, ready-to-use decisions, and you need only to adapt them to your idea. Speed is the crucial point here and that is where templates become the most appropriate instrument to create an app. As an example of a web template, check out a bootstrap admin dashboard by Flatlogic.

But Bootstrap templates are different, and we speak not about the design and the amount of ready-to-use elements, but about the technology a template is based on. That is why we want to discuss the best bootstrap admin templates built pure Javascript as well as built popular frameworks and libraries. To be precise, these frameworks and libraries are React, Vue, Angular. If you are not familiar with any of them, look only through the best templates built pure JavaScript or read the Article about Angular and React.

Bootstrap Templates Built With Pure Javascript to Kickstart Your App

One: Sing App HTML5

Image source: flatlogic.com

Premium admin dashboard.
Minimum extra dependencies (no frameworks).
Bootstrap 4.2.1.
Page reload with AJAX.
Special E-commerce section, tons of useful widgets, 8 chart libraries, hundreds of pages like the gallery, calendar, timeline, and much more.
Interactive tutorial and hints when first open an app.
2000 downloads so far.
Last update: about 3 weeks ago.
The cost is $59.55.
Free version available here.

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Two: Material Dashboard Pro

Image source: https://www.creative-tim.com/

Premium admin template.
Modern Google’s material design.
Built with Bootstrap Material Design framework.
Amazing and smooth animation.
Awesome notification and alert system.
15 inbuilt plugins, a lot of example pages, 5 different sets of icons.
Last update about two weeks ago.
The cost is $49.

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Three: Metronic

Image source: creative-tim.com

Premium admin universal dashboard.
Support and development since 2013.
11 demos dashboards with different design and one multipurpose dashboard.
Very huge and unique database of applications, plugins, components gathered during all years of development.
One of the most featured templates on the market.
The most popular template on ThemeForest.
Last update: about a week ago.
The cost is $35.

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Four: Flatlogic One

Image source: flatlogic.com

Premium admin template.
Built with Bootstrap 4.5.
Theme Change Support.
Dashboards (Analytics and Visits).
E-commerce section.
Chart library (Amcharts, Echarts, Apexcharts).
Flatlogic Icons, Flatlogic Typography.

Google Maps integrated.
The price is $99.95.
Fully responsive.

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Five: Cork

Image source: themeforest.net/item/cork-responsive-admin-dashboard-template/25582188

Multipurpose admin dashboard.
Bootstrap v. 4.4.1.
Smooth and lightweight animation in all objects.
A multitude of well-designed interactive charts and widgets.
A huge amount of reusable components and pre-built ages.
Balanced and simple material design.
Dark and light layouts available.
Easy to modify with CSS.
Last update: about a week ago.
The cost is $9.
The template is truly made with love:)

Image source: themeforest.net/item/cork-responsive-admin-dashboard-template/25582188

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Six: Light Blue HTML 5

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Premium developer-oriented admin template.
Extensive documentation.
Awesome transparent design with a deep background.
New light and white version added.
Built with HTML5, pure JS, Bootstrap, and Sass.
Suitable for SAAS, CRM, and CMS systems.
A huge amount of handcrafted components.
30+ pages included.
A landing page included.
The cost is $49.95.
You can download free lite version here.

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Awesome React Admin Templates

One: Easy Dev

Image source: https://previews.aspirity.com/easydev/dashboard_mobile_app

Premium modern dashboard template.
Bright design with clear and simple UI.
Used technologies are React Router, Redux, Material UI, and SASS.
Special dashboards for eCommerce, crypto, booking, and MobileApp.
Component reload with React Hot Loader.
Several applications and a lot of general components and specific components for eCommerce.
Last update: around three weeks ago.
The cost is $28.

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Two: Shards Dashboard Pro React

Image source: https://previews.aspirity.com/easydev/dashboard_mobile_app

Free blog-oriented admin dashboard template pack.
Optimized for fast performance.
All components are carefully hand-coded and well documented.
Includes 15 pages and more than 350 components.
About a 1000 stars on GitHub.
Modular foundation.
Multiple plugins like React Table, Chart.js, React Datepicker, and other.
There is a free lite version of the template that is oriented to blog apps.
Last update: a year ago.
The cost: $39.

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Three: Blur Admin

Image source: https://www.akveo.com/blur-admin/#/dashboard

A premium ReactJS template with comprehensive features.
Customer choice on ThemeForest with 2 000 + downloads.
7 dashboards for Crypto, CRM, eCommerce and many more.
Powered with popular libraries like Material-UI, Redux, ReCharts and others.
Dynamic routing support.
Async loading.
Code splitting & HMR.
Tons of UI components, widgets, and metrics.
25+ .psd files.
Neat and minimalistic material design.
Last update: around 3 months ago.
The cost is: $24.

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Four: Tabler

Image source: https://tabler-react.com/

A free dashboard template with clean code.
High-quality UI.
Simple and clear design.
Build with Node.js and Yarn.
Minimum dependencies with fast pages reload.
A sufficient set of components, pages, forms to develop an app.
Last update: 10 months ago.
The cost: free.

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Five: Light Bootstrap Dashboard Pro React

Image source: https://demos.creative-tim.com/light-bootstrap-dashboard-pro-react/#/admin/dashboard

Premium admin template.
Created with Bootstrap, Sass, and HTML5.
Contains a collection of elements to build an admin panel, project management system, CRM, or CMS.
The pack includes sketch files from designers.
Last update: 10 months ago.
A bunch of optimized React plugins.
The cost: $149.

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Useful Angular Admin Dashboards

One: Pages

Image source: http://preview.themeforest.net/item/pages-admin-dashboard-template-web-app/full_screen_preview/9694847

Premium admin dashboard template.
Multifunctional and multipurpose template with hundreds of customizable features.
A perfect composition of elements, shades, colors, spaces in the design.
Awesome typography with pixel optimized inter typeface family and dynamic metrics.
Exclusive set of components and carefully designed pages.
100 + widgets & plugins.
6 years of constant improvements.
Customer choice with more than 10 000 downloads.
Last update: 23 days ago.
The price is $18.

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Two: Altair – Admin Material Design UIkit Template

Image source: http://altair_app.tzdthemes.com/#/

Premium material design admin template.
Popular template on ThemeForest with 3 000+ downloads.
Easily customizable with LESS files and Gulp tasks.
Some custom pages and UI components with integrated KendoUI.
Inbuilt plugins and third-party libraries.
Comes with a landing page.
Last update: about three weeks ago.
The cost is $24.

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Three: Gene

Image source: https://gene.theironnetwork.org/dashboard/crm

Premium admin template with material design.
Used technologies are Angular 8, Sass, HTML5, Firebase.
Carefully crafted stylish elements in the design.
80+ integrated pages and 12 integrated languages.
Comes with all necessary components: icons, buttons, forms, tables charts.
Includes specific apps like online chat, task board, video player.
5 built-in dashboards: CRM, Crypto, Courses, Saas, Web analytics.
Last update: around 2 months ago.
The cost is $24.

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Four: StartNG

Image source: http://startng.themeseason.com/

Premium powerful admin template.
Based on Angular 9.
An intuitive design that comes with 6 different layouts and 10 color styles.
4.97 stars rating based on 38 reviews on ThemeForest.
Contains responsive tables, charts, apps (calendar, mailbox).
Last update: 2 months ago.
The price is $24.

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Responsive Vue Admin Dashboard Templates

One: Sing App Vue Node.js

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Premium admin dashboard template with a modular design.
Built with VueJS 2.5.2 and Bootstrap 4.
Also available in Angular and React versions.

jQuery-free.
Easy customization thanks to modular architecture.
Node.js backend with CRUD.
Great design with charming animation.
Awesome online chat app.
Many ready-to-use UI components.
Great inbuilt analytics instruments like interactive maps, ECharts, and highcharts.
Product grid for eCommerce section.
Last update: around three weeks ago.
The price is $99.95.
A free lite version is available here.

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Two: Vuexy

Image source: https://pixinvent.com/demo/vuexy-vuejs-admin-dashboard-template/demo-1/dashboard/analytics

Premium beautiful admin theme.
eCommerce specialization.
6 different color designs.
Technology stack: VueJS, Bootstrap, Firebase, Axios, and Algolia.
Available in pure JS and ReactJS.
No jQuery dependency.
Two dashboards: analytics and eCommerce.
eCommerce section with shop, wish list, checkout.
Quick search.
Hundreds of pages, components, and cards.
Last update: about two weeks ago.
The cost is $32.

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Three: Gul

Image source: http://gull-vue.ui-lib.com/app/dashboards/dashboard.v1

Premium modern dashboard template.
Developed with VueCli, Cue, Vuex, Sass and BootstrapVue Components.
There is an HTML version.
Built with pure Vue without jQuery.
Useful applications like invoice export to pdf, mails, chat, contacts, todo list.
Free design files come with a template.
250+ UI elements, widgets, pages.
Last update: about two weeks ago.
The cost is $18.

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Four: Piaf

Image source: https://piaf-vue.coloredstrategies.com/app/dashboards/default

Premium Vuejs admin template.
jQuery-free but has a jQuery version.
Pleasant user-friendly design, efficient UI.
Excellent composition of handcrafted components and layouts.
Beautiful charts in a single chart library.
Excellent design and composition of elements.
Offers miscellaneous pages like prices, blog pages, eCommerce pages, profiles, etc.
Easily configurable keyboard shortcuts.
Last update: about 2 months ago.
The cost is $16.

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Which Bootstrap templates to choose?

The algorithm is simple:

Define the technology you want to use.
Determine the features or requirements for your future apps (for example, we need group and face-to-face chats, mails and fine-looking profile pages. Or you have a requirement to launch the app within a month and you don’t have time to customize the template).
Look through the demos of templates built with the technology you need, keeping in mind what you got from the second point. We focused on Bootstrap templates in the article, but there are other options on the market.

Buy the template.

About Flatlogic

Flatlogic develops and sells Javascript (React, Angular, Vue, Node.js) admin templates that help to develop or integrate web applications to your business. We have more than 10000 customers such as Samsung, Apple, and others that use our products in different applications. Please check out our products and we will be happy to receive feedback from you.

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Databinding with the OOP Windows Forms Designer

Posted on February 1, 2022June 3, 2023 by 0

The design-time support for databinding in the new Windows Forms (WinForms) .NET
Out of Process (OOP) Designer is different from the Framework Designer. The
WinForms OOP Designer has a new and easier approach for hooking up data sources,
focusing on Object Data Sources to support .NET based object relational
mapper
technologies (like the latest version of Entity Framework Core – EF
Core for short) which the WinForms team
recommends as a successor for Typed DataSets. This new approach was due to the
completely different architecture of the new WinForms OOP Designer, which we
have discussed in the previous blog
post.
If you haven’t read it yet, you should do so first, as it is essential for a
better understanding of this post.

Why is the Data Source Tool Window unavailable in .NET projects?

Essential to databinding in WinForms .NET Framework is the Data Source Provider
Service. This service runs in Visual Studio, and its responsibilities are as
follows:

It generates and maintains Typed DataSets by connecting to a database data
source (for example Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle DB Server).

It detects types which are designed to act either as Typed DataSet Data
Sources or Object Data Sources.

It identifies potential Object Data Sources and sets those up in the
project.

It discovers legacy (for example SOAP-based) web services and sets them up
in a way so they can act as data sources.

It provides the UI functionality for the Data Source Tool Window in .NET
Framework for WPF and WinForms applications. It also provides the UI Wizard
to add new or maintain existing SQL Server connected data sources.

As of today, the Data Source Provider Service only works in the context of
Visual Studio, which means it can only type-resolve .NET Framework assemblies
and types. For .NET in its current version, the Data Source Provider Service is
not able to retrieve the necessary type information as it would need to operate
on the .NET Server Side (the
DesignToolsServer).
This is the reason that the UI stacks which used to rely on the Data Source
Provider Service (WinForms, WPF) need to come up with alternatives for setting
up new data sources and at the same time support legacy scenarios as well as
possible. Providing feasible migration options, so that data access and
databinding technologies can be migrated Form by Form, with both data source
binding approaches (Typed DataSets and new ORMs based on Object Data Sources)
present over a period of time, was the main driver for the new databinding
functionality.

Working with legacy Typed DataSets in the OOP Designer

To decouple WinForms from the dependency to the Data Source Provider Service,
there is now a new and quicker way to hook up new Object Data Sources.

That said, existing Typed DataSets definitions copied from Framework projects
can – with some limitations – be consumed by the OOP Designer even without that
service present. This means, data-bound Forms or UserControls using Typed
DataSets can be opened, and the Design Binding Picker (the drop-down editor in
the Property Browser to pick data sources for binding) will continue to provide
the necessary functionality to define the databinding of individual properties
of controls. At this time, though, no new Typed DataSets can be generated in
the context of a WinForms .NET application. It is also not possible, to
interactively update the schema for a Typed DataSet by querying the schema of
the assigned database. Necessary components (DataSet and for assigning the
data at runtime tablenameTableAdapter) to add a new binding definition can,
however, be added from the toolbox and hooked up manually – which means
maintaining legacy data-bound forms based on Typed Data Sets in .NET WinForms
projects is generally supported.

The following animated gif shows the process. Copy the Typed DataSet definition
from your existing Framework project to your new .NET project and see that all
necessary adapters and DataSets automatically appear in the toolbox on
recompile. You see: Clicking the Typed DataSet based data source on the Picker
does only set up the binding if the respective components are present in the
Component Tray.

New Approaches when using Object Data Source Binding

Object Data Sources can, in contrast to Typed Data Sets, get their data through
all different kind of means. One of the most popular alternatives, which is a
great replacement for old-fashioned Typed DataSets, is Entity Framework Core (EF
Core for short). Apart from the fact that it has greater performance and a
bigger set of functionalities compared to Typed Data Sets, it also uses a
different approach in dealing with the permanent task of updating and
maintaining a database’s schema. While EF Core can principally be used in the
same way as Typed Datasets, which are generated based on an already existing
database, data objects based on EF Core can take a different more flexible and
more maintenance-friendly approach, which is called Code first.

Code-first in this context
means, the class
definition defines the data structures/schemas, the relations between the
entities (tables), and then the actual database schema is derived from this
class definition: So-called migration-code updates the actual database
definition on the fly. The advantage: The underlying database technologies is
abstracted away: Code-first enables you to generate the schema for many
different database
systems:
SQL Server, SQLite, Oracle Server, In-Memory databases, Cosmos, PostgreSQL,
MySql – you name it!

Let’s consider the following scenario: We build a .NET 6 Windows Forms
application using EF Core code-first with
data classes defined in a dedicated class library. This way, we can reuse the
data layer code in other projects. But – in contrast what you would have done
with Typed DataSets, we are not binding the EF Core data classes directly to the
WinForms UI. The goal is to reduce the business logic code in the actual UI
(Forms/UserControls) and get rid as much as possible of the WinForms typical
“Code Behind” style. For that, we are introducing a set of properties to bind to
yet another Object Data Source, which implements the business logic instead. We
call this the business logic UI-controller class, or UI-controller for
short. And those are the properties, we bind. A few examples:

Instead of setting the window title text of a Form directly in code-behind
in the Form, we have a property in the UI-controller for the windows title.
And that we bind.

A Save button should only be enabled when there actually is something to
save. Instead of enabling or disabling the button in Code-Behind in the
Form, we are introducing for example a `SaveButtonEnabled` property in the
UI-controller, which we then bind against the `Enabled` property of the
button.

We can even utilize a concept which originated from WPF and is called
Command
Binding.
It’s suitable for elements like ToolStripItems (and the derived
components ToolStripButton, ToolStripMenuItem and others) or
Button controls and implemented via the ICommand interface: When the
user clicks on such a button in the WinForms UI, and the command property of
that button is bound to a respective property in the UI-controller class,
the command executes the underlying business code in the business class
logic rather than in some Click event code-behind.

A UI-controller class would look something like this:

Using a combination of data classes (which represent the Database) and
UI-controller(s) in this way as Object Data Sources has some advantages:

Business logic reuse: The business logic is defined by business object
(data source) classes independently of the UI. This means they can be reused
in other scenarios. The same business objects which are used in a WinForms
application could also be used for example in a Maui .NET mobile
application.

Unit tests: Since the business logic doesn’t include any specific
UI-stack dependencies, it can be unit tested way more easily. That is a big
advantage over the WinForms typical code-behind approach.

View model/UI Controller support: Object Data Source classes can – or
rather should – implement the `INotifyPropertyChanged` Interface. This
enables data sources to act as UI-Controller classes (or View Models), which
make them suitable to be reused in other UI Stacks.

Note: Although the binding infrastructure in WinForms is comparatively powerful,
it doesn’t have the flexibility of XAML-based binding which you might know from
WPF, UWP or Maui. For WinForms, you will most likely always be ending up with
some Code-Behind code to support UI-Controller binding scenarios, which are
otherwise difficult to implement just on the model/controller side. But that’s
OK and expected. For a better reusability of code and the ability to write code,
which is testable, it’s still worth the effort. And a migration to this way of
binding can be easily done over time, Form by Form, so it is really feasible and
can be planned for huge LOB apps. On top, we plan to further support and extend
UI-controller centric scenarios in the .NET
7 time frame for WinForms
projects.

The New Add Object Data Source Dialog

To use a certain class as your Object Data Source, start the binding process as
you previously would:

Open the Design Binding Picker to add a new Object Data Source definition to
your project.

Click on the link Add new Object Data Source to find the type you want to
use as a data source in your project.

Use the Filter field to filter the selection by name. Note that types
which implement the `INotifyPropertyChanged` interface (or derive from
types which are based on that interface) are formatted in bold typeface.

Use the checkboxes in the dialog to include or exclude types, which are not
part of your project, or to control how the types are organized in the list.

The example in the animated GIF below shows how a slightly modified
ToolStripMenuItem component can be bound this way to a Command, and in
addition a DataGridView’s DataSource to a property of a UI-controller
representing a list of customers:

Here you see that adding MainUIController as an Object Data Source and
then binding its Import command to the ImportExternalDataCommand
property automatically led to the adding of the
mainUiControllerBindingSource component: In the Design Binding Picker you
can then pick that component as the actual data source.

History lesson: why BindingSources as mediators and no direct binding?

Adding a BindingSource component for an Object Data Source as a mediator
between the data source and the target control/component is a concept which
WinForms adapted from the early beginning (.NET 2.0 back in 2005). The
BindingSource component acts as the so-called currency manager. Currency
in this context means, the BindingSource component manages which data item
in a list of items is the current one. This way of binding is also done for
scenarios, for which the data source is or provides only one object instance – a
UI-controller or a single data source item for a data entry form for example.
This principle is being kept for backwards compatibility reasons, which means
that any attempt to bind the first property to a newly added (object) data
source will always add a respective BindingSource component to the
component tray. The actual binding will then be hooked up to that
BindingSource component rather than to the data source directly.

Note: It is important to know in this context, that WinForms doesn’t
natively know the concept of type conversion based on the IValueConverter
interface as it is used in WPF, UWP or WinUI. Rather, a conversion during
binding can be done by handling the events, such as Format and Parse,
which are provided by the actual binding instances generated by the designer for
the binding in InitializeComponent. Like this:

public FormMain()
{
InitializeComponent();

// Current version of WinForms Databinding doesn’t allow yet
// IValueConverter, we do this instead:
var totalRevenueBinding = _totalRevenueTextBox.DataBindings[0];

// ConvertTo, here Decimal to String as an example:
totalRevenueBinding.Format += (sender, eventArgs) =>
{
if (eventArgs.DesiredType != typeof(string))
{
return;
}

eventArgs.Value = ((decimal)eventArgs.Value!).ToString();
};
.
.
.

In this sample code we are assuming there is only one DataSource/Control binding
for a TextBox named _totalRevenueTextBox. We’re getting its Binding
definition and wire up to its Format event, where the actual conversion is
then handled at runtime.

Improvements to Advanced Databinding

We also made improvements to the Advanced Databinding Editor. You use the
Advanced Databinding Editor for all properties which are not listed directly
under Data Binding in the Property Browser. This dialog now shows what component or
control you are binding to. It also shows what exact type of that control or
component you are editing. Also, rather than picking the binding trigger from a
drop-down list, you can now directly set that by clicking radio buttons, which
is quicker and more accessible.

The Advanced Databinding Dialog now allows to set up another binding scenario:
Sometimes it’s necessary that you define a whole property path in complex
binding scenarios – which are scenarios, where you are binding to a list rather
than to a single object instance. In those cases, the correlating
BindingPath and BindingField of the Binding’s instance
BindingMemberInfo property can now easily be set in the Advanced Databinding
Editor by entering the whole path in the Path entry field. If this field gets
the focus, Path and Field are merged, and you can edit the property path as
a whole. When that entry field later loses the focus again, Path and Field
are separated in the same way as they would show up if you’d queried them at
runtime through the Binding’s correlating BindingMemberInfo property:

Summary and key takeaways

Databinding in WinForms .NET is focused on Object Data Binding. We encourage
developers to explore modern ORM technologies like Entity Framework Core,
which can be used in their latest versions in contrast to .NET
Framework.

Databinding of legacy technologies (Typed DataSets) is still supported,
albeit with some limitations. Typed DataSet definitions can be copied from
Framework projects, but new Typed DataSets cannot be created in .NET
projects, nor can their schemas interactively be changed.
Tip: Old and new database mapping technologies can coexist in a WinForms project,
so there is a feasible way to gradually migrate the underlying data layer
technologies, one Form at a time.

Object Data Sources are defined for the project through the Design Binding
Picker in the Property Browser by clicking on the Add New Object Data
Source link. The Data Source Provider Service is at the time not available
for .NET projects (neither WinForms nor WPF). That is also the case for the
Data Sources tool window, which relies on the Data Source Provider Service.

Object Data Sources are a great tool migrating business “Code-behind” logic
from Forms and UserControls into UI-stack-independent controller classes.
This way, it becomes easier for WinForms apps to be unit tested or reuse
business logic code in other contexts, and also have a clear migration path
to introduce modern technologies in WinForms LOB Apps.

The Advanced Databinding Dialog is now easier to handle and more accessible.
It now also allows the definition for entering property paths for complex
binding scenarios.

As always, please tell us which features you would like to see in the Designer
but also in the WinForms runtime around the databinding area.

Happy WinForms Coding!

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20+ Bootstrap Admin Dashboard Templates for 2022

Posted on February 1, 2022June 3, 2023 by 0

Introduction

If you need to create a user interface of the backend of a web app you will require an admin template. What is an admin template? Admin template is a set of web pages, usually built with Javascript, HTML, or CSS. The templates make the part of website administration more pleasing and easy due to great design and simplicity. Bootstrap Admin Dashboard Templates can help you to create the interface, which will be suitable for your needs and will be able to show you all the data, statistics, trends crucial for your business.

The most popular designs of admin dashboard are made with the Bootstrap 4 framework.

Flatlogic One Bootstrap – Free Admin Template

Image source: https://flatlogic.com/templates/one-free-bootstrap-template

This template is a brand new one among the templates built with Bootstrap technology. It will be a good choice if you wish to build apps that include data tables and analytics. The design of the template goes in three different colors – grey, white and orange, so you can choose the most suitable one for your product. Bootstrap All Bootstrap elements can be easily customized, which makes this template fully responsive. Flatlogic One Bootstrap has elegantly designed charts, deep background, and, what is more, this dashboard is developer-oriented. The template also has full documentation and full support to solve all the problems quickly and attentively.

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Minimal Admin Panel – Admin Website Template

Image source: https://w3layouts.com/minimal-admin-panel-flat-bootstrap-responsive-web-template/

The next template has a nice design and clean look with the help of Bootstrap components. This template is built with Bootstrap 3+ Framework and includes a various number of UI components. Minimal Admin Panel is fully responsive and will be suitable for every kind of web applications due to the use of different components of user interface and widgets.

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Target Responsive Bootstrap Admin Template

Image source: https://webthemez.com/target-free-responsive-bootstrap-admin-template/

The next template in our list is fully free and can be optimized for every device. One of its advantages is it is powered by Javascript and jQuery Script. This template is amazingly designed, fully responsive, and customized, has a various number of all UI components, which you will need for your product. It can be the best choice if you are looking for a Material designed template.

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Klorofil – Free Bootstrap Admin Template

Image source: https://www.themeineed.com/downloads/klorofil-free-bootstrap-admin-template/

Klorofil looks like a perfect choice if you are searching for a free template with a beautiful and modern design. Its 50 components include elegant charts, different tables, timeline, notifications, a list of tasks, and everything you need for your product. It also has pages that are ready to use – particularly profile page, log in, and lock screen, so it will be easy for new users to start using the template.

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Paper Panel Bootstrap 4 Admin Dashboard Template

Image source: https://elements.envato.com/ru/paper-panel-bootstrap-4-admin-dashboard-template-EXXPRF

This fully responsive template is famous for its elegant design, which is useful for newcomers due to its simplicity. Your project will look awesome with this fully customized backend panel and you can easily adapt it for your product needs and create your version of the panel. The advantage of the template is in the availability of two versions – developmental and production.

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Light Blue Dashboard Lite Admin Template

Image source: https://flatlogic.com/templates/light-blue-dashboard-lite

One of the best template options you can get is Light Blue Dashboard Lite, which has a great design and deep background. Bootstrap HTML5 technology makes it fully responsive and its made with Javascript, so there are no frameworks. If you are looking for a template for SAAS applications or some apps for project management your search may end here.

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Collective Admin Panel – Admin Website Template

Image source: https://w3layouts.com/collective-admin-panel-website-template/

This Bootstrap admin dashboard template is a great option for any app or website. It includes anything you need to monitor the statistics of active users or daily visitors. The essential advantage of this template is its design. Made white canvas makes the information readable and easy for analysis. All the main information is on the top and the left. There is a sidebar you can hide if you need to.

The advantage of this template is its simplicity and minimalistic design, which shows everything you may need. Built with Bootstrap, it has various UI elements, such as tabs, buttons, icons, and others. The dashboard includes charts and all the crucial information to analyze your webpage. It also includes 7 ready-to-use pages to help you start working on your product immediately.

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Kenny Dashboard / Admin Responsive Template

Image source: https://elements.envato.com/ru/kenny-dashboard-admin-site-responsive-template-6DSR6V

This template is fully responsive and will benefit web applications of any kind. It has a modular design that lets you easily customize the template and adapt it to your needs. Kenny Dashboard includes more than 90 pages and four types of various dashboards for you to choose the best. The number of UI elements and widgets help users to work on a product without any difficulties.

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Chain Responsive Bootstrap Admin Template

Image source: https://themeforest.net/item/chain-responsive-bootstrap-3-admin-template/8539704

The Chain Template has a modern design, easy to adapt for smartphones and tablets. It is fully responsive as all the previous ones. However, it has more than 500 UI components, three kinds of charts, a template for a mailbox, and it is also ready for Retina. All of this makes this template a good option in the line of Bootstrap-made admin templates.

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Sing App HTML5 Lite

Image source: https://flatlogic.com/templates/sing-app-html5-lite

If you are searching for a free and stylish template, this will likely be the one and only. This fully responsive HTML5 template includes all the UI components you will need and is also made with no frameworks (pure JavaScript). Furthermore, it has various charts for your web app analysis. Notifications, icons, and other features – all of those help you make the most of your product. You can also look through all examples of a bootstrap admin template by Flatlogic.

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Monster Bootstrap Admin Template Lite

Image source: https://www.wrappixel.com/templates/monster-admin-lite/

One of the main features of this template is the availability of free and pro versions. The free version has 10 UI elements, 7 page templates, 10 integrated plugins, and lifetime updates. If you want to use this template for commercial purposes, you should buy the pro version, which will provide you with more than 500 UI elements, 700 ready-to-use page templates, and 4 various dashboards.

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Lumino: Free Bootstrap Admin Template

Image source: https://medialoot.com/item/lumino-admin-bootstrap-template/

Built with Bootstrap HTML5, this template is the best for your backend admin panel due to the number of different widgets, charts, tables, and UI components. You can change its color with SASS, and the template also has a menu and some built-in functions for users. Furthermore, you can upgrade it to a pro version and get a whole new range of possibilities.

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Flash Able Bootstrap 4 Free Admin Template

Image source: https://codedthemes.com/item/flash-able-free-admin-template

The key advantage of this template is the concentration on performance, which is why it’s one of the most comprehensive templates. It is fast and fully responsive and suits every retina device. Flash Able Bootstrap 4 is beautifully coded and has a fine structure, which makes it easy to use. The developers include in it more than 16 pages, 150 widgets, and more than 14 various layouts for better adaptation to your needs.

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Ample Bootstrap Admin Lite

Image source: https://www.wrappixel.com/templates/ample-admin-lite/

The free version of this great template has anything you wish for starting your work: 7-page templates, 10 UI elements, and 10 integrated plugins. If you wish to explore more of its functions, you can buy a pro version, which will provide you with more than 300 UI elements, 6 application designs, 6 dashboard variations, 7 demo variations, and 160-page templates.

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Majestic Admin Free Bootstrap Admin Template

Image source: https://github.com/BootstrapDash/MajesticAdmin-Free-Bootstrap-Admin-Template

This brilliantly coded template is simple, friendly and can be used for any kind of websites on both mobile and desktop devices. To make your life easier it is fully responsive and has no difficulties with customization. Even a new user can start to build a website using this template due to its clear and clean code.

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Royal UI Free Bootstrap Admin Template

Image source: https://github.com/BootstrapDash/RoyalUI-Free-Bootstrap-Admin-Template

The latest version of Bootstrap makes this template powerful and smooth. It includes various essential UI-components, useful tools, and, what is more, has a splendid design, which will make your product look perfect. It is easy to customize every feature and the template also has all documentation and is fully responsive. All of this makes it one of the interesting choices on the Bootstrap template market.

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BootstrapDash / Stellar

Image source: https://github.com/BootstrapDash/RoyalUI-Free-Bootstrap-Admin-Template

The first you’ll see, if you look at this template – is its elegant design and clear code. It will reflect all your desires with the help of UI components and full customization. Stellar Admin will go brilliantly with both complex and simple backend applications. It also goes with updates, so you will not need to worry about it, and is ready to give you a great experience both on desktop and mobile devices.

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Purple-Free

Image source: https://www.bootstrapdash.com/product/purple-free-admin-template/

This template will have all of your attention with its glorious and modern design, which uses gradient colors. Purple Admin Template is great for both complex and simple data due to its interesting techniques of visualization. Furthermore, the template provides you with GULP automation, ready-to-use components, advanced forms, and beautiful charts. All of this makes this template one of the best choices on the market.

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Top 7+ Bootstrap Admin Dashboard Templates in 2022

Posted on January 28, 2022June 3, 2023 by 0

Introduction

There is a huge number of admin dashboard templates on the internet and a significant number of free ones to download. They usually include such kinds of things as graph/chart libraries, dashboard pages, alert box buttons, navigation schemes, icons, tables, and so on. We will try to find the best suitable UI (user interface) toolkit for your project.

All of the admin dashboard templates listed here include at least one dashboard page that was pre-built in a template. It can be customized for your project. If you decide to create your custom dashboard, you have different options in the template packs such as a combination of components, UI elements, and cards.

So how can you choose the best admin template for a project? For sure one of the most important things for an admin template is to put data and content first in the visual design hierarchy. E.g., your first attention is content, not design. However, we have made analyses not only of the design but also what are the versions, how many unique pages, in fact, the project has, how often it is updated, and of course the price.

Here is some basic information about the most popular admin templates available on the market. It contains such columns as versions, unique pages, price, Bootstrap version, and of course a rating, based on mentioned characteristics. Please note that it’s just our opinion. Nevertheless, it’s based on solid facts. For example, using Bootstrap 4 is definitely a plus. 4th version is much ahead of its predecessor. It’s better for you to use it on your projects because it is essential to keep up to date and use only the latest, high-quality, and relevant tools when developing your product. That proves that you will never face security issues for example.

Sing App

Sing App is a Bootstrap 4 based admin template with an excellent fresh and clean design. It has static HTML, REACT, AngularJS, and Angular 5 versions. Sing contains more than 30 pages. Sing is stunning while at the same time advanced. With this admin template, you will manage to develop your web application much more effectively which will definitely make your lives simpler. 100% Responsive layout. Sing is a perfect choice both for a small startup and an established enterprise. It is compatible with Bootstrap 4 and is updated regularly. A reasonable price would be an additional plus for this project.

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Skydash

Skydash is a brand new admin dashboard from BootstrapDash. It has been designed and developed by closely working with one of the best UI/UX agencies in India. You can be assured you are getting a premium template. It offers a clean user interface that can be easily modified to fit your needs. Skydash offers you 4 different types of dashboard layouts, including ones with vertical and horizontal navbars. You can either use the default light theme or the dark theme. Check out the website to know more about Skydash.

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SmartAdmin

SmartAdmin is a Bootstrap 3 based admin template with great features and characteristics. It has static HTML, AJAX, PHP, AngularJS 4.0, Ruby On Rails, ReactJS and ASP.NET version. It contains more than 30 pages including an impressionistic landing page. 100% Responsive layout (tablets, desktops, mobile devices) and modern and clean design. Unfortunately, it compatible only with Bootstrap 3 and updates, in general, are not very often.

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Inspinia

Designed and developed professionally, Inspinia is based on Bootstrap 3. Out of the box, you get four version: AJAX + HTML + ANGULAR + ANGULAR 5 Version. This admin template with pixel perfect design and a fully responsive layout has more than 70 pages. Thanks to its multi-purposefulness you can use Inspinia for many web projects. The last update was practically a year ago, so this could be a HUGE minus for this project.

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Metronic

Metronic is an admin template with 70+ pages, based on Bootstrap 4. It has HTML + ANGULAR + ANGULAR 5 Version. This admin template with innovative design can absolutely improve your web application. Flat design is assuring great quality and modern look. And this experience will be friendly towards mobile device users, given that this admin template is entirely responsive. Metronic is updated approximately once a month in general.

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Light Blue

This dashboard is Bootstrap 4 based and contains more than 30 pages. Fully responsive and has a modern, simple but smooth look. It is a multi-functional admin template with a responsive and flexible design, adapting smoothly to any device. It updates practically every one or two weeks. This is definitely a simple non-intrusive template. This app template uses Server Side Rendering for SEO and Node.js backend to speed up your development process.

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Color Admin

Color Admin comes with plenty of elements which you can tailor to your needs and requests. Bootstrap 4 based admin template including AJAX + HTML + ANGULAR + ANGULAR 5 Version. 100 unique pages is a big plus. No matter how complex you would like your admin to be Color Admin template is here to take care of your needs. It has a strong focus on user interfaces and web applications. It’s updating once in a 2 month.

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Flatlogic One Bootstrap Template

Flatlogic One is built with Bootstrap 4.5 and contains a lot of customizable components. The template is beautifully designed. There are four color themes to choose from. By the way, the developers team has created a unique Flatlogic Typography and Flatlogic Icons. This dashboard is fully responsive because it is well-matched with any device. Developers have filled this template with so many useful things, such as various charts (Amcharts, Echarts, Apexcharts), Google Maps, analytics, and visits dashboards, chat, and email opportunities, and much more. Flatlogic One is documented and fully supported. It’s compatible with Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Edge, IE 10, IE 11.

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Unify

Unify is a template with huge 250+ shortcode pages which have over 1750 reusable UI Components. Based on Bootstrap 4 it has AJAX + HTML + ANGULAR + ANGULAR 5 Version. The quickness of customization and the combo of available elements allow you to create the exact layouts you need. Unify has a modern web design and comes handy for many different web projects you are working on. It regularly updates so this could be a great plus for this template.

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Conclusion

To summarize, admin dashboard templates are great tools to check on your progress, statistics, productivity, and staff. Professionally crafted admin dashboard with lots of pages and elements can take your company to a higher level. So it is extremely important to choose it carefully. A good template always should be the reflection of reliability and professionalism.

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Bootstrap Table Guide and Best Bootstrap Table Examples

Posted on January 26, 2022June 3, 2023 by 0

Tables and data visualization
Tables in modern Web Development
What is a bootstrap table? A basic example of Bootstrap table
Bootstrap Table Classes

Types of bootstrap tables
Striped rows and dark table
Bordered and borderless bootstrap table
Contextual bootstrap table classes
Table heads color
Hoverable rows
Small bootstrap table
Responsive bootstrap tables
Bootstrap table with images

Common questions about bootstrap tables
How to style a bootstrap table?
What is table responsive in bootstrap?
How do I add a border to a bootstrap table?
How do I center the text bootstrap table?
How do I make a scrollable table in bootstrap?

Best Bootstrap Table Examples
Conclusion

Tables and data visualization

Tables are so widespread and trivial it’s easy to take them for granted. Meanwhile, the value of a table or spreadsheet for big data is like that of an assembly line for heavy industry. Before we dive into our Bootstrap table examples, let’s take a moment to realize what an achievement we have at our disposal. When an aspiring business analyst or data scientist learns his or her craft, a good part of the learning process is dedicated to graphics. The demand for a mixture of hard data and fine art isn’t accidental. With technical progress, the data we work with gets more complex. As data gets more complex, understanding it becomes harder.

Ancient maps show the world known to mankind at the time and the importance of visualizing information

Data visualization is an ancient art. You may have heard of the term “Ptolemy’s Map”. That is the name commonly given to all geographical knowledge contained in the works of Claudius Ptolemy, not to be confused with Egyptian pharaohs. Claudius Ptolemy was a mathematician, an astronomer, a geographer, and a musical theorist (apparently, it was a thing back then). He lived in Alexandria in the second century A.D. and almost certainly never visited most places found in his maps. Still, his maps and descriptions give a fair representation of what lay beyond the horizon. Sure, the proportions were distorted and the distances inaccurate, but the man died almost 1,800 years before the launch of the first satellite. Let us give him some credit! Maps existed back then, and they were tools, not curiosities. Even when the world’s largest library contained less data than an average smartphone does today, it was obvious how helpful it is to represent information in a simplified visual way. Hence the modern popularity of infographics and diagrams.

Tables in modern Web Development

Tables are an important part of any web application’s life. Tables help both visualize and structure data. Instead of reading each entry’s full parameters, its location in the table gives us some insight. They help us absorb large amounts of data with relative ease. We can say that tables are the foundation of a modern web application. Therefore, it is very important to make them carefully and with love. After we’ve reviewed the best javascript table plugins, we decided to create a digest of the best tables out there, categorized by one technology. Here it is: today we will talk about Bootstrap tables.

Bootstrap table is good for creating date pickers, admin panels, calendars, and all other stuff to show complex data.

In this article, you will learn what a bootstrap table is, how to make basic bootstrap tables and how to make them beautiful. You will also learn how to customize bootstrap tables. After that, we will list the best examples of ready-made bootstrap tables.

What is a bootstrap table? A basic example of Bootstrap table

Bootstrap tables are well-organized components for displaying data. The data is presented in the form of columns and tables. Bootstrap tables are opt-in. To build it, you just need to add .table class to any <table> and then style it.

The code example of the basic Bootstrap table looks like this:

<table class=”table”>
<thead>
<tr>
<th scope=”col”>#</th>
<th scope=”col”>Name</th>
<th scope=”col”>Surname</th>
<th scope=”col”>Username</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th scope=”row”>1</th>
<td>Eugene</td>
<td>Stepnov</td>
<td>@e93</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th scope=”row”>2</th>
<td>Mark</td>
<td>Dever</td>
<td>@md111</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th scope=”row”>3</th>
<td>John</td>
<td>Piper</td>
<td>@piper</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

Bootstrap Table Classes

The basic principle when developing a bootstrap table is classes. You don’t need to write cumbersome CSS to style and customize your table. Just add classes to the <table> tag describing how the table will behave. For example, here are the most popular classes:

Border: Add a border with .table bordered;

Colors: Add color to different rows with .table striped;

Condense: Make your rows more compact with .table-condensed;

Hover: Highlight a table sortable line when you hover with .table-hover.

Next, we’ll look at how to put these classes into practice.

Types of bootstrap table

Now let’s take a look at different basic manipulations with Bootstrap table.

Striped rows and dark table

For creating a striped row table you just need to add .table-striped to any table row within the <tbody>. You can also add the table dark class to make the table dark and invert the colors.

<table class=”table table-dark table-striped”>
<thead>
<tr>
<th scope=”col”>#</th>
<th scope=”col”>Name</th>
<th scope=”col”>Surname</th>
<th scope=”col”>Username</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th scope=”row”>1</th>
<td>Eugene</td>
<td>Stepnov</td>
<td>@e93</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th scope=”row”>2</th>
<td>Mark</td>
<td>Dever</td>
<td>@md111</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th scope=”row”>3</th>
<td>John</td>
<td>Piper</td>
<td>@piper</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

Bordered and borderless bootstrap table

To add borders to a table, use the .table-bordered class. In this case, the table tag will look like this

For the borderless table, you should use:

Contextual bootstrap table classes

You can also use contextual classes to colorize individual lines or cells. It’s also worth mentioning that you can use several different classes at the same time to build a wide variety of tables.

To make a colorized table, you can apply the following classes to <tr> elements (rows) or <td> elements (individual cells):

.Table-primary
.Table-secondary
.Table-success
.Table-danger
.Table-warning
.Table-info
.Table-light
.Table-dark

In our example below, we have made a small table with a hover, using 3 context classes to colorize individual lines.

<table class=”table table-sm table-hover”>
<thead>
<tr>
<th scope=”col”>#</th>
<th scope=”col”>Name</th>
<th scope=”col”>Surname</th>
<th scope=”col”>Username</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class=”table-danger”>
<th scope=”row”>1</th>
<td>Eugene</td>
<td>Stepnov</td>
<td>@e93</td>
</tr>
<tr class=”table-success”>
<th scope=”row”>2</th>
<td>Mark</td>
<td>Dever</td>
<td>@md111</td>
</tr>
<tr class=”table-warning”>
<th scope=”row”>3</th>
<td>John</td>
<td>Piper</td>
<td>@piper</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

Bootstrap table heads color

You can also specify different background colors for the table head using the modifier classes .thead-light or .thead-dark on the <thead> element.

The following example uses the class .thead-light to create a table with a light head.

Likewise, you can use the class .thead-dark to create a table with a dark head.

Hoverable rows

Sometimes you need to highlight some rows of a table. Then we need to use :hover. In bootstrap, you don’t need to modify anything in the CSS file: just add the .table-hover class to the <table> tag

<table> tag

Small bootstrap table

If you want to develop a small compact table, just add class .table-sm.

Responsive bootstrap table

One thing you simply need to know about is responsive bootstrap tables. To make any table responsive, wrap the <table> tag in a <div> with the class .table-responsive. Or you can specify the maximum breakpoint at which this table property will appear by adding the class .table-responsive {-sm | -md | -lg | -xl}. Look at an example below.

Bootstrap table with images

Adding images to a table, make sure you specify a max-width for the parent cell. You can use the sizing utilities or write your own CSS. By default, the content in a table cell is vertically aligned to the top.

<table class=”table table-image”>
<thead>
<tr>
<th scope=”col”>Number</th>
<th scope=”col”>Avatar</th>
<th scope=”col”>First Name</th>
<th scope=”col”>Last Name</th>
<th scope=”col”>Username</th>
<th scope=”col”>Social Link</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th scope=”row”>1</th>
<td class=”w-25″>
<img src=”https://s7d9.scene7.com/is/image/LifeWayChristianResources/piper_john_author?wid=300&hei=300&op_usm=2,.5,6,0″ alt=”John Piper”>
</td>
<td>John</td>
<td>Piper</td>
<td>@johnpiper</td>
<td>twitter</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th scope=”row”>2</th>
<td class=”w-25″>
<img src=”https://www.capitolhillbaptist.org/monkimage.php?mediaDirectory=mediafiles&mediaId=3241749&fileName=mark-dever-2-300-300-0-0.jpg” class=”img-fluid img-thumbnail” alt=”Mark Dever”>
</td>
<td>Mark</td>
<td>Dever</td>
<td>@markdever</td>
<td>twitter</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

Common questions about bootstrap table

How to style a bootstrap table?

To style the bootstrap table, add various classes to the <table>, <th>, <tr> tags. For example, the .table-sm class will make your table compact. For more details refer to the official bootstrap documentation.

What is table responsive in bootstrap?

Table responsive allows any table to scroll horizontally. To make any table responsive just add .table-responsive class to <table> tag.

How do I add a border to a bootstrap table?

To add borders to the table, use the .table-bordered class on the <table> tag

How do I center the text bootstrap table?

The easiest way to center text in the bootstrap table is to add .text-center class in the <table> tag.

How do I make a scrollable table in bootstrap?

Use a responsive table to add scroll. Just add .table-responsive class to a <table> tag.

Best Bootstrap Table Examples

Bootstrap table

The bootstrap table is a plugin for integration with the most popular CSS frameworks. It is an extended version of the table that integrates with many CSS frameworks. It supports Material Design, Bootstrap, Bulma, Semantic UI, and Foundation. You can install it with npm or yarn by using the Bootstrap Table source JavaScript files and CSS.

One of the most important things about this plugin is that you make the table fully responsive in a very short time. The plugin is maintained by thousands of contributors and it has thousands of commits. The other good thing is that this library has great documentation with many live examples with source code on how to use this plugin. For instance, there are examples of a Modal table, different use of buttons, how to add search, merge or update cells, and other features that can extend your bootstrap table.

Notable features:

responsive web design;
scrollable table with fixed headers;
fully configurable via data attributes;
get data in JSON format using AJAX;
simple column sorting with a click;
powerful pagination and localization.

Bootstrap tables in Light Blue Bootstrap Admin Template

Light Blue HTML5 Admin Template is a product developed by Flatlogic, made in dark and transparent colors. The template is made on the basis of Bootstrap 4 and is fully responsive. In addition to tables, you will find many other components in this template such as buttons, icons, dashboards and others.

As for tables, in this template they are subdivided into Tables Basic and Tables Dynamic.

In Tables Basic you will find static bootstrap tables with the following features:

Tables with buttons;
Tables with images;
Striped and bordered tables;
Hover and overflow tables;
Tables with checkboxes.

In Tables Dynamic section you will find the following features:

Sortable tables;
Working search console;
Tables made on top of Backgrid.js;
Tables made on top of jQuery DataTables.

As a result, using this template, you get not only different types of well-designed bootstrap tables, but also a well-thought-out admin panel for a full-fledged web application with different components.

MDbootstrap bootstrap table generator

This tool allows you to quickly generate a bootstrap table to see how it will look, and copy the resulting code. The tool can create tables using the following combinations of bootstrap classes:

Striped
Hoverable
Bordered
Borderless
Small
Responsive
Captions

Also, in addition to this, you can choose the color of cells and borders. This tool will be very helpful if you want to test different table styles.

Fixed Column Bootstrap Table by Colorlib

The table is well suited for displaying huge data arrays since it’s not always possible to remember which cell corresponds to which one. This is why the first column is fixed while you scroll horizontally. It is fully customizable, allowing you to use any color you choose, or create a responsive table and add rows if necessary.

It uses Bootstrap and Fontawesome. The scroll is implemented with jQuery.

The product is completely free. To download and run it, you will need to leave your email on the site.

Bootstrap 4 static table with checkboxes and fixed header

Fixed header and checkboxes tables are featured in one of the largest bootstrap communities. The table has very accurate design and good user experience. The table uses Bootstrap 4 and Jquery. This snippet is free and open-source – you can use it in your project. The project has integration with FontAwesome and includes more than 1000+ images.

Creative Tim bootstrap table

This Bootstrap table is based on the bootstrap table plugin. The project is completely free and open-source, nevertheless it has wide functionality. You can set background color (5 colors), the background of the table can be created from scratch, or you can leave only the header. Also, the table can run either in full screen mode or compact. This table has all the functionality of bootstrap – table plugin.

Bootstrapious Pricing table

Fixed header bootstrap table template

Fixed Header Bootstrap Table Template has – guess what – a fixed header that gives you the ability to scroll vertically. The table has rounded corners, and it is also possible to change table color and use different color combinations. There is no column border in the variants, which allows you to add as much content as you like without getting cut off. The columns simply adjust themselves to keep the table looking impressive.

Sortable

This small bootstrap table has important functionality, namely the ability to sort the various columns of the table. This function is done with a little bit of jQuery code:

$(function(){
$(‘#keywords’).tablesorter();
});

Fade and Blur on Hover Data Table

This table has a strict corporate design that can be suitable for large, serious applications. Of course, you can change the color configuration settings and choose your theme from unlimited custom combinations that will deliver the right look for your table.

However, the main feature of this table is this: when you hover over a row, it will be highlighted by fading out the others. This will allow your users to focus better and clearly see what they are reading.

Fixed column datatable

In this template you will find 6 different example tables. This is a plugin written in Vue and Bootstrap. By using this template you get a data table with checkboxes, a data table with accordion, and data tables with different column alignment. The code script for all six designs is shared as a single code file. The template is fully customizable and responsive.

Bootstrap datagrid

Bootstrap datagrid is a jQuery datagrid plugin compatible with Bootstrap 2 and 3. It is completely free and open source, available under MIT license. The disadvantage of this tool is no Bootstrap 4 support. The plugin is completely responsive and fully configurable. The features of the plugin include sorting, filtering, change columns order, show or hide columns, single or multiple row selection, filters, localization, pagination, and more. As a bonus, Bootstrap datagrid has neat documentation.

React bootstrap table

A very useful tool indeed: react and bootstrap are the two most popular front end libraries. React bootstrap table allows you to create bootstrap style tables inside the React application. It works with Bootstrap 3 and 4. The installation, configuration and usage are very intuitive.

React bootstrap table supports following built-in features:

Striped, borderless, condensed table;
Column align, hidden, width, sort, title, styling, customization;
Table scrolling;
Cell format;
Pagination;
Row selection;
Table Search, Column filter;
Cell editor;
Insert & delete Row;
Export to CSV;
Rich function hooks;
Header column span;
Remote mode;
Row expand;
Keyboard navigation.

Footable

FooTable is a responsive plugin built for Bootstrap. The table is free to download and fully responsive. The features of this table include searching within the table, searching by category, pagination, sorting in individual columns and tag indicating the number of entries. The table displays 10 entries at a time, which can be changed according to your needs.

Js grid

jsGrid is a jQuery plugin you can add to your Bootstrap site. The plugin has a lot of basic features for tables such as sorting, searching, pagination, scrolling the entries, etc. Additional features of the table include data editing, validation, filtering, etc.

The plugin has very good documentation. Despite the fact it is written in jquery, there are still periodic updates.

Conclusion

In this article, we introduced you to the concept of Bootstrap table, as well as basic manipulations with it and various ready-made templates as a bonus.

When you create your table, we recommend you to think of what information will be the most important in it, and only then decide which features and elements to use. You can also choose bootstrap tables with more advanced options, including search, pagination, or sort features.

As for your ready-made examples of bootstrap tables, the best tables are the ones you customize yourself: because you know best what will suit your website and your vision.

If you want to somehow improve and comment on this article, we’ll be very happy to hear from you. You can also find many examples of bootstrap tables by looking at our bootstrap templates.

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Top 8 Material UI Templates

Posted on January 19, 2022June 3, 2023 by 0

Table of Content

Introduction
Why Use Material UI

Material UI
Pros of Material UI
Cons of Material UI

Top Material UI Templates
Hulk
React Material Admin by Flatlogic
MaterialPro
EasyDev
Enlite Prime – React Admin Dashboard Template
Crema
Reactify
Egret

Building New Apps with Flatlogic

Conclusion Suggested articles

Introduction

The foundations for Material UI templates originate earlier than Material UI’s official release. In 2012 Google released Google Now, the predecessor of Google Assistant. On October 29 of the same year, an update added Gmail cards. The cards pulled information from Gmail account and displayed it without opening dedicated apps. Google used the tile-like design and depth effects as the foundation to keep building on. On June 25, 2014, Material Design was announced. Gmail Cards’ legacy was visible, but a lot had changed. Transitions were smooth and responsive. Depth effects became more complex. Finally, the padding and grid-based layout gave Material-compliant applications a distinctive minimalist look. The look we would grow to associate with Google and Android.

Why Use Material UI

What’s the value of this decision? Usually, a company uses design languages to give its software a recognizable view. Products from the same manufacturer look different but related thanks to patterns in shapes, colors, and construction elements. Apple is a nice example. If you covered the Apple logo on an iPhone or a MacBook, the distinctive simple shapes and smooth colors would still give them away. But we have a different situation with Material Design. While most companies guard their proprietary designs, Google encourages developers to use theirs. Everything falls into place when we remember the company’s trade. Docs, Spreadsheets, Calendar, and other services don’t exist in a vacuum.

Google services are easy to integrate, both with each other and outside platforms.

A link to an online document you send via a messenger often comes with a preview. The said document can contain links to calendar events. You can connect said events to outside software, which could lead the user to yet another Google service. They encourage integration, making each app and each service an extension of something else. More websites and apps complying with Material UI guidelines make the web more seamless. This brings smoother transitions and a deeper and more consistent experience.

Material UI

Material UI, or MUI, is a React library heavily inspired by Google’s guidelines and principles. React speeds up the development of SEO-friendly components and elements. Its components are highly reusable. It offers a great variety of tools for web development. There’s a good reason React is so popular. Whatever metric you choose to evaluate frameworks by, React will be among the top spots or at least a decent contender. As we can assume, Material UI inherits a lot from both React and Material Design. Keep reading for more details on Material UI’s pros and cons.

Pros of Material UI

1. Space for maneuvering

MUI offers a huge selection of components. Few libraries offer you the same freedom within one framework while adhering to design standards. Whatever admin panel you want, chances are it can be built with Material UI.

2. Flexible styling

Managing CSS styles with JavaScript isn’t exactly new. But within Material UI this feature opens up on a new level. Change one style and one class at a time or adjust the whole theme. Use unique class names and scope classes to components. MUI can be as precise or as broad as you need it to be.

3. Popularity

A solution’s popularity is good on multiple levels. Social proof means it’s either good or at least not bad enough to cause serious issues. A wide pool of users means that any problem you might face was likely dealt with by many before you. And some of them are bound to have shared their valuable experience online.

4. Proven success

Material UI is a solution that works. It’s a merger of two solutions that have been tried and tested thoroughly over the years. When it comes to feedback, there was never a shortage of respondents. Whatever your content is, chances are Material UI will work fine.

5. Arsenal of tools

Material UI comes with over 1000 customizable icons out of the box. It supports TypeScript and features associated with it. Its Grid system supports adaptive design compatible with all platforms and devices.

6. Optimization

Material UI takes a good part of the unused code out of the package for the production build. If you take full advantage of this feature, your apps will weigh less and load faster.

7. Saving time

This is a plus of many libraries, not only the MUI. It leaves you with fewer things you must choose. Big Tech giants can afford the luxury of being both efficient and unique. Smaller companies and individual creators often have to choose. If a unique design is not your priority, the time you’ll save will be of greater value.

8. Simplicity

Highly versatile solutions are often overly complicated. Oddly, MUI is simple enough. Its features are scalable. In other words, MUI is as advanced as you need it to be, and won’t require that you learn all the features to make the most basic interfaces.

Material’s Cons

The Material isn’t perfect, of course. Let’s round up reasons to avoid it

1. Popularity

Yes, that was the first good thing about Material Design. But popularity is a double-edged sword. Complying with Material UI guidelines leaves your products with a Googly (is that a word?) look that makes them similar to Google and about half of all the web.

2. Design Limitations

Material UI is a safe option that works almost every time but rarely excels. You might want to use different styles for a library and a tattoo salon. They’ll be hard to differentiate between if you want to comply with Material UI. However, this shouldn’t be an issue for admin dashboards.

3. Heavy Weight

This is the bane of many frameworks and libraries. Their developers usually try to include all the popular features. The thing is, most users don’t use all or even most of those at once. The result is a load of code that is there but serves no purpose only adding weight and slowing the whole application down. Mind that and check the limiting factors like your server’s capabilities. Usually, though, this downside is balanced out by MUI’s “tree-shaking” capability that removes unnecessary code from the package.

4. Complicated inner mechanisms

The more we implement ready solutions the less we delve into the way they operate. When using MUI templates, it’s easy to forget how the end product works on a molecular level. And it is even easier to never bother with it in the first place. This is rarely a problem since Material UI templates usually come with plentiful documentation and support. Yet every now and then there’s a compatibility issue, and that’s when troubles might arise since few people have delved deep into MUI templates’ inner mechanisms.

Top Material UI Templates

By this point, we’ve covered the reasons for you to use MUI or avoid it. For this article, we’ve collected many templates to fit all needs. Some are great UI templates. Others are admin panels with easy navigation and an unobtrusive design. Each has something it excels at, and we’ll explain it all so you can make your picks.

Hulk

Source: Themeforrest page

Preview: https://preview.themeforest.net/item/hulk-reactjs-redux-material-ui-admin-template/full_screen_preview/26538639

Technologies: React.js, Material UI, HTML 5, CSS3
Compatible browsers: IE11, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome, Edge

This hulking force of a template (sorry) has you covered on many fronts. It has three dashboards in one package. It has a multitude of charts and graphs including React-Google-charts, Echarts-for-React, and React-chartjs-2. Hulk has a layered side menu that lets you navigate it with ease. Hulk is integrated with Firebase, Autho, and JSON Web Tokens. These allow for multiple authorization methods. And if those aren’t enough, Hulk also supports digital signatures. Hulk’s responsive design works great on mobile screens. Finally, there’s support. We usually say “responsive” about software but this time we’ll give credit to Hulk’s support team. They’re very helpful and always there. Proper documentation is nice but consulting with the people who wrote the template is a whole other level of support. Hulk’s list of features and components is solid in any context but at $24 it’s a real treat. Take a look!

React Material Admin by Flatlogic

Source:
Free version
React Material Admin Full
React Material UI Node.js

Technologies: React 16, React Hooks, Material UI, Node.js, PostgreSQL

Compatible browsers: IE 10, IE 11, Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Edge

The next entry is our own product. The React Material Admin name leaves no room for doubt. It’s built on React 16 and the 4th version of Material-UI. We carefully structure our templates’ interfaces to let you do more with the same number of buttons and toggles. This React-based template goes well with eCommerce platforms, SaaS, Project management, CRM, and more. React Material Admin is inter browser-compatible and supports React hooks. The code is lightweight and all adjustments intuitive. It’s easy to adjust React Material Admin and even easier to have it replace the demo data with actual information from your API endpoints.

If you have software development experience, you know how easy it is to inflate the software to the point where it messes with performance. When developing React Material Admin we had a balance to uphold. Insufficiency of features is bad for obvious reasons. Excess causes slower performance and a greater number of things that can go wrong. We wanted as many features and technologies as possible so the template can perform anything. At the same time, we took care to keep it lightweight. And we believe we managed it.

React Material Admin comes in three versions. The basic free version lets you learn the handling of React Material Admin. React Material Admin Full comes at $99 for the Personal license and $499 for the Developer license. Finally, the most complete version, the React Material Admin Node.js, comes with Node.js (hence the name) and PostgreSQL, and starts at $149. Other parts besides the admin panel are built-in, with only the end-user interface remaining.

MaterialPro

Source: https://themeforest.net/item/materialpro-bootstrap-4-admin-template/20203944

Preview: https://preview.themeforest.net/item/materialpro-bootstrap-4-admin-template/full_screen_preview/20203944

Technologies: Bootstrap 5, Material Design, HTML 5, CSS3

Compatible browsers: IE11, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Edge

It’s hard to pinpoint what exactly sets MaterialPro apart. It doesn’t exactly outperform all competition in any particular regard but is solid in each. Compatibility with major browsers? Check. Documentation? Plenty of it. MaterialPro is a versatile template and can be useful for any type of business or website. It’s especially good for warehouse management, accounting, and SaaS applications, according to the creators. MaterialPro is a great choice for beginners, too. It’s intuitive and simple. MaterialPro is among the easiest-to-install templates on the market. And every time it gets unintuitive, its thorough documentation kicks in.

This blend of simplicity and versatility makes MaterialPro great for Just about anyone. Especially beginners and anyone who doesn’t want their admin panel to take too much time. The main downside we could think of is the ambiguity of its compatibility with Internet Explorer. If you prefer the good old Explorer (we’re not here to judge), you might want to keep looking. If not, give the MaterialPro a try!

EasyDev

Source: https://themeforest.net/item/easypro-developer-friendly-react-bootstrap-4-admin-template/21798550

Preview: https://preview.themeforest.net/item/easypro-developer-friendly-react-bootstrap-4-admin-template/full_screen_preview/21798550

Technologies: React, Bootstrap 4, React Hooks, Material UI

Compatible browsers: Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome, Edge

EasyDev is among the more complete packages we could find. Its SASS-based Material Design has light and dark modes. React hooks are responsible for the routing, and the template is easy to deploy using Dockerfile. But the thing (or things) that caught our eyes the most was the selection of six separate dashboards. The E-Commerce dashboard is for sales, orders, and reports. Usage statistics and conversions appear in the App dashboard. The Finance dashboard tracks exchange rates. Each one is ready for action. All you have left is to connect the template to your API’s endpoints which is easier than it sounds. Pick one that fits best, or switch between them at your discretion, whichever suits you.

The visuals are also a strong plus. EasyDev uses Recharts, ChartJS, and React-Vis for interaction with outside services. All the data from your website, or other platforms, goes straight to the dashboards with little to no delay. The selection of 200+ UI elements is enough for building new functionality if preinstalled dashboards don’t cut it. And, finally, EasyDev sports a proprietary chat application for commuting with your clients. Follow the links below to check it out!

Enlite Prime – React Admin Dashboard Template

Source: https://themeforest.net/item/enlite-prime-reactjs-fullstack-website-template/23803960

Preview: http://enlite.ux-maestro.com/

Technologies: React, Material UI, Firebase, Redux Saga

Compatible browsers: Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome, Edge

Enlite Prime is our next pick. We’re talking about a React-based full-stack template, meaning you will not have to worry about the back-end or database. Enlite Prime won’t work with WordPress, and neither can you use it as a static HTML template. Those limitations aside, we couldn’t find a single area where Enlite Prime is lacking. The 12 Grid system makes for a flexible layout that fits any screen. There are multiple themes, light and dark, including pitch-black backgrounds, that work so great on OLED displays. Enlite has 30+ React components. This isn’t as many as some competitors have, but combined with adaptive design will likely cover all needs.

But perhaps the biggest thing setting Enlite Prime apart is its quick-starting capacity. It comes with pre-built CRUD apps, a selection of sample pages, and a ‘Starter Project’ option. The latter lets you set up your online platform in no time at all.

Crema

Source: click the link

Preview: https://preview.themeforest.net/item/crema/full_screen_preview/26540158

Technologies: Material UI, React, React Hooks, Ant Design

Compatible browsers: Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome, Edge

Coming up is another well-rounded package called Crema. This isn’t the first time Crema appeared on our lists. It has 7 built-in Apps, 3 theme styles, and 11 navigation styles. As if that wasn’t enough to choose from, Crema lets you adjust the color scheme and pick one of many thousands of possible combinations. Crema sports 6 dashboards: Analytics, e-Commerce, CRM, Crypto, Healthcare, and Academy. Each was preconfigured for specific tasks and use cases. The included apps cover useful functionalities like Scrum board, Task manager, and SM style Wall. Crema supports login with four different services: AWS, Firebase, Auth0, and JWT.

Crema utilizes over 300 widgets and metrics, most of them ready to integrate with outside sources. This covers virtually all use cases and allows for seamless integration with other services. Finally, Crema lets you choose between 5 menu styles to find the one that makes you feel the coziest.

Reactify

Source: click the link

Preview: https://preview.themeforest.net/item/reactify-reactjs-redux-material-bootstrap-4-admin-template/full_screen_preview/20922934

Technologies: React, Bootstrap 4, React Hooks, Redux

Compatible browsers: IE11, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome, Edge

Reactify is a mixture of React and Bootstrap with Material-based design. We’re not sure we can call it a Material UI template in the traditional sense. What we can call it is a template that deserves a spot on this list. Right off the start, you’ll get 30+ pre-built pages and 60+ widgets, some of them proprietary and exclusive to Reactify. As you install it, you will almost instantly find solutions for typical situations in business. They only require minimal calibration on your part. And if those options don’t cut it, you can explore Reactify’s full features.

Don’t let the initial ease mislead you. Reactify is a solid tool for advanced users, too. It has charts, promo widgets, and customizable reports. Set up chats, interactive feedback, pricing plans, and more. Reactify has tons of features, and you can customize each one for your needs. Visit the page and give Reacify a try!

Egret

Source: click the link

Preview: http://preview.themeforest.net/item/egret-react-redux-material-design-admin-dashboard-template/full_screen_preview/24673283

Technologies: React, Firebase, Redux,

Compatible browsers: Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome, Edge

Egret takes up the next spot. We liked the aesthetics of each template on the list, but boy does Egret catch the eye! The color scheme seems typical for admin templates, yet the subtle difference in tones, shades, and contrast makes this dashboard stand out. We don’t know if that’s a plus or a minus, considering you’ll have to do business with this thing, not casually observe it. We do know that Egret has plenty to offer in other departments, too.

Egret’s list of features and components isn’t long, but they’re well-picked and customizable. That gives you the balance between advanced freedom and easy entry that can be hard to find and uphold. Egret comes with dashboards tailored for online education, analytics, and sales. These serve as a starting ground, and one of them is bound to come in handy in any business. As you get the hang of it, you can delve deeper into Egret’s functionality. It has seven pre-built-in apps: Event Calendar, Inbox, Chat, Invoice builder, CRUD list, To-do list, and Infinite Scroll list. The Forms section includes form validation, Upload, Wizard, and Rich Text Editor. You’ll cover lots of ground with those. Egret integrates with Google Maps, Calendar, and a multitude of other outside services you might require data from. Follow the link below to give Egret a try.

Themeforrest

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Building new apps with Flatlogic

We’ve covered our picks for the best Material UI templates we know of. They’re versatile and offer a great variety of features for managing your business. And some even work as full-stack web applications not requiring you to develop any additional software. But at Flatlogic Platform there is another path to pick if you need a web app for your business.

Web applications have more in common than you might think. There is a term CRUD in web development. It stands for Create, Read, Update, Delete. These are the most basic functions any application performs. Like the basic actions, other features of an app can be categorized and replicated. We followed this line of thought and developed a platform that lets you build web applications from scratch. We took Web App development and stripped it down to a few choices. Keep reading to know what they are.

#1: Choose a Name

The first step is inelaborate, even by beginner standards. We choose a name easy enough for you to associate with the project.

#2: Choose Stack

An app consists of the front-end (or end-user interface), the database, the admin panel, and the back-end that makes everything work together. We’re constructing a headless CMS. That means we’ll handle the end-user interface separately and concentrate on other components for now. On each level, we have multiple options working on different technologies. For example, we can choose between React, Angular, and Vue.js admin panels. Likewise, we pick technologies our database and back-end will run on.

#3: Choose the Design

Admin dashboard design has its peculiarities. It’s meant to be clear and easy on the eye, rather than pretty and original. We offer you five distinctive dashboard designs on the Flatlogic platform and keep working on new ones so you can have more options to choose from.

#4: Choose Database Schema

Next up, we construct the schema. The schema is the backbone of a database. It includes attributes, tags, fields, and the meaning of the data in those fields. This step is more complicated than the ones before it. Luckily, it doesn’t require any specialized expertise beyond understanding your business and the kind of data you’ll deal with.

#5: Review and Generate your App

Everything has been set. We only have to check if everything is the way we need and hit the Create App button. After a brief compilation, your App will be at your disposal. The Flatlogic Platform is integrated with GitHub and lets you push your application there. Or you can host your app with no help from external services. Either variant costs mere seconds of your active involvement. At this point, your App is ready and fully functional. Enjoy!

Conclusion

That was it for our favorite Material UI templates. Items on this list have different strengths and weaknesses but each has a solid build and operation. Each has all the awesome features we expect from the blend of React and Material Design. Each is a capable solution that will work for your business website. Now, you know the reasons to choose Material UI and reasons to avoid it, and can use that knowledge to make better calls and build great web applications. Happy developing!

Top 20+ Bootstrap Dashboard Templates to Use Absolutely Free

Posted on January 18, 2022June 3, 2023 by 0

Admin dashboard templates strong suits
Bootstrap framework benefits

Free Bootstrap admin dashboard templates
Modular admin
Sing App HTML5 LITE
Concept
Flatlogic One Bootstrap
Admin Kit
Soft UI Dashboard
Star Admin Free
SB Admin 2
Stisla
Ample Bootstrap Admin Lite
Material Dashboard Dark Edition
Dashio
CoreUI

Argon
Kapella
Purple
Majestic Dashboard
ArchitectUI
Cool admin
Bluebox Free Bootstrap Admin Template
Adminator
Chameleon Admin Bootstrap Template

Tips to build your web site or web app
Bonus!
Creating your web applications with Flatlogic

Bootstrap, earlier known as Twitter Blueprint, needs no introduction because it’s a well-known web development framework on GitHub. To find your best fit for an admin dashboard template for free doesn’t seem like a complex task, cause Bootstrap has CSS-and JavaScript-based design templates with a variety of UI components that are widely known and used in web app development. Despite the oversaturated market in web development, Bootstrap themes and templates remain one of the most sought-after products among front-end developers. Bootstrap framework is used by 26.9% of all the websites; among them such valued brands like Netflix.com, Cnn.com, Espn.com, and Udemy.com.

Admin dashboard templates strong suits

What are the indisputable components of a robust admin dashboard template? How to choose your optimal platform for better work and high performance? We’ve defined a list of fundamental principles of a good admin template:

UX design quality

By this, we mean that the hierarchy of elements matters. The structure of the components on the page, plenty of space, the contrast in colors for easy text comprehension, some decent logic that will hint to the customer to intuitively make this or that action on the page. Good design is design that evokes emotion, nevertheless B2B or B2C design should be both emotional and rational. Visual hierarchy is the key that leads the user through the site satisfying their customer needs and your commercial ones.

Suitable front-end framework

It’s up to you to decide which technology fits your best: trendy React or familiar Bootstrap or Node. But we’d go on the framework with which you feel most confident.

Updateability

An admin template should have frequent updates. An up-to-date theme will be more secure and will benefit from any new features.

A number of custom features, additional pages (e.g. profile page, inbox page, etc)

The admin template may be given some unique feature that makes it stand out from the crowd.

Reasonable price

Good admin templates can be priced higher without sacrificing customer interest in them, while bad admin templates can’t be.

Bootstrap framework benefits

If you are unsure what technology to choose for building your website, Bootstrap has some clear benefits for your multiple possibilities. Flexible in development, the front-end framework has numerous HTML and CSS templates, validation styles to state warnings, and last but not least support various JavaScript extensions. Websites built using Bootstrap technology will display the same in all modern browsers. Bootstrap is the real way to build your site and mobile app fast since designing all of the front-end pages from scratch will be a pricey and time-consuming challenge, to say the least.

Thanks to its clear code, Bootstrap can be quickly learned by a novice. Bootstrap is a proven and self-sufficient way to save time developing your web application and make the UX design quick. Bootstrap is a modular framework. Its real advantage is a huge number of ready-made well-designed components and a series of LESS files. The ability to customize templates for your project is achieved by changing the SCSS variables, and the low threshold of entry; to work with the framework you don’t need to be a genius of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery.

Top Free Bootstrap Admin Dashboards for 2021

We have gathered a list of the most attractive admin dashboards for you to choose from. Build your website effortlessly and in record time with free Bootstrap admin templates.

Modular admin

Image source: https://modularcode.io/modular-admin-html/

Modular admin dashboard is a Bootstrap 4 admin template, that boasts a clear and simple design, easily scalable, and fully customizable in use. Modular admin is a neatly arranged open source dashboard theme with lots of useful widgets like stats, history of visits, sales items, sales breakdown pie-chart, sales by countries, tasks lists, and more. All the UI elements like icons, cards, and buttons, are carefully drawn and highlighted in vivid colors. This admin template provides real-time insights into the sales activity simplifying inventory management. It’s easy to modify and maintain.

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Sing App HTML5 LITE

Sing App HTML5 LITE is a free dashboard for your grand eCommerce plans, promo deals, mobile apps, or email marketing automation. Rather restrained in colors, though full of useful widgets, chart libraries, gallery, timeline, Sing App HTML5 LITE is perfect as a platform for your applications back end, project management systems, or any SAAS projects. Painted in Prussian blue background and chiseled typography of the theme adds formality and decisiveness to your business management. Sing App HTML5 Lite is a fully responsive admin template built on Bootstrap 4 and vanilla Javascript. One of the definite advantages of Sing App HTML5 LITE is data visualization through dozens of charts like flor charts, morris charts, rickshaw charts, and sparkline charts.

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Concept

Image source: https://technext.github.io/concept/index.html

Concept is an absolutely free admin template built on Bootstrap framework with a perfect responsive web design. Concept provides within easy reach all the essential components for building an admin panel for web applications. Concept dashboard has been designed as a stylish tool for developing projects in sales, finance, eCommerce, and influencer projects management. Concept features a huge collection of reusable code snippets and utilities, invoice, timeline, calendar, the media objects, and all clean code along with in-depth documentation.

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Flatlogic One Bootstrap

Image source: https://flatlogic.github.io/one-bootstrap-template/

Flatlogic One Bootstrap theme is a brand new template in the family of Flatlogic dashboard templates. Conceived as a helper in building deep analytics and data tables applications, Flatlogic one has a bunch of integral dashboards to check average order value, conversion rate, upsell take rate, number of returns, and more. Cheerful colors and pleasing to the eye, UI interface is very intuitive and ready to use for CMS, SAAS, IoT Dashboard, eCommerce apps, and others.

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Soft UI Dashboard

Image source: https://demos.creativ-tim.com/soft-ui-dashboard

Soft UI Dashboard is a free Bootstrap 5 Dashboard template that you can use to visualize data on any online business. Its design combines gradients, bold colors, and realistic textures to create a modern and innovative look. The template comes with many prebuilt design blocks that allow you to choose and combine to build your own customized admin panel. Soft UI Dashboard includes 70 components like buttons, inputs, navbars, nav tabs, cards or alerts, and a set of 7 prebuilt example pages (Dashboard, Tables, Billing, RTL, Profile, Sign In and Sign Up). It is MIT licensed, fully responsive, and free to download with complete documentation.

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Admin Kit

Image source: https://demo.adminkit.io/

Admin Kit is a free and open-source Bootstrap 5 Web UI Kit & Dashboard template with highly detailed pages, tools and components, plugins, and add-ons. A fully responsive system, clean code, constant improvements, and regular updates are provided. Admin Kit is a super fit for administrator dashboard or Saas-based interfaces. Fabulously elegant design, nice functionality, and a wide range of widgets inside like neatly arranged invoicing help to run your site work processes really smoothly and quickly. Some additional components like calendar, task, or notifications are available in the PRO version of the template.

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Star Admin Free

Image source: https://www.bootstrapdash.com/product/star-admin-free/

Star Admin is a free bootstrap admin template made in juicy ultramarine blue. Star Admin has a full kit of representative dashboards like impressions, conversions, downloads, but is not burdened with extra components. All the basic UI-elements and clear form elements, and well-written code are the distinct advantages of this trendy open-source dashboard. StarAdmin is primarily the dashboard template for keeping track of conversion rate, analyzing real-time sales. The custom plugins are also carefully customized to fit with the overall look of the theme, working seamlessly on desktop as well as tablets and phones.

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SB Admin 2

More info: https://startbootstrap.com/theme/sb-admin-2

SB Admin 2 template has a casual appearance and is highly intuitive to use, due to its fresh and clean UI design. Its strong side is in utility classes: the structures like animations, borders, colors, that contain reusable and stateless helper methods. And what’s more, this free dashboard has an advanced workflow environment based on npm and Gulp with live reloading via browser-sync. Desktop, tablet, and mobile versions are also available and supported.

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Stisla

Image source: https://demo.getstisla.com

Stisla is a 100% open source product by Indonesian developers that has more than 30 third-party libraries. Stisla looks really fresh and modern in its light purple shades and will be a perfect fit for your dashboard UI design to capture the admins’ heart. It is a HTML5 admin template, and each Stisla component/element/kit has its SCSS & JS file. Order statistics, general balance, budget vs. sales widgets, top 5 popular products will ease your sales or eCommerce management.

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Ample Bootstrap Admin Lite

Image source: https://wrappixel.com/demos/admin-templates/ampleadmin/ample-admin-lite/basic-table.html

Ample Admin is a nifty admin template dashboard by Wrappixel for building web and mobile apps. If you love a minimalistic design, this transparent dashboard will work for your eCommerce or sales web app solution. Easy to customize, the platform with solid icons can be updated to the PRO version with 1600+ page templates, unlimited color schemes, 7 unique demos, and 6 months premium support.

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Material Dashboard Dark Edition

Image source: https://demos.creative-tim.com/material-dashboard-dark/examples/dashboard.html

Inspired by Google Material Design, Creative-Tim launched its admin template for lovers of dark colors and dark themes. The material dashboard is rich in components, has about 37000 downloads and about 200 positive reviews from customers all over the world. This is a free admin dashboard that comes with 5 color filter choices for both the sidebar and the card headers (blue, green, orange, red, and purple), plus an option to have a background image on the sidebar.

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Dashio

Image source: https://templatemag.com/demo/Dashio/

Dashio is another fully free admin dashboard template suitable for web apps for various purposes. Depending on your needs, Dashio admin template may be used for CRM and CMS projects, or project management systems. It loads fast, it’s highly responsive, and has a variety of useful widgets for better data analysis. Besides the basic extra pages, like log screen, pricing table, FAQ, Dashio provides advanced cards for eCommerce, analytics, statistics, weather widget, Mail, and chat room. Dashio admin dashboard has a straightforward code and works well with all popular devices including mobile.

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CoreUI

Image source: https://coreui.io/demo/3.4.0/

CoreUI admin template is a multipurpose Bootstrap admin template stand on Angular, ReactJS, and VueJS web frameworks. CoreUI offers 6 versions of free admin dashboard templates constructed on Bootstrap, React.js, Angular, Vue.js, Laravel, and Vue.js + Laravel. CoreUI was designed by polish web-developer Łukasz Holeczek in a super clean style. Plus, for lovers of beautifully made pics and symbols, CoreUI offers 1000+ cool icons for common actions and items.

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Argon

Image source: https://technext.github.io/argon-dashboard/index.html

Argon Dashboard is a free dashboard template that offers a vast range of components made with the help of Bootstrap 4. Among its top features that make Argon unique are a drop-down menu, call to action button, and progress bars, made with different colors, styles, and hovers. Moreover, Argon Dashboard has a sparking design with detailed documentation. Argon employs the Sass processor, offers one default dashboard, and contains 5 pre-built plugins that you can customize according to your needs.

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Kapella

Image source: https://www.bootstrapdash.com/demo/kapella-free/template/pages/tables/basic-table.html#

One of the most extraordinary examples in our list is the free Bootstrap 4 framework admin template, named Kapella. The structure of elements and widgets of this free template differs from the rest of the admin dashboards because of its horizontal navigation bar with a bunch of necessary functionalities like dashboard UI elements, form elements, charts and tables, and sample pages. This free website template has got an excellent collection of handy tools and essential components to use. The mint shade of typography and sans-serif typeface makes the whole design look fresh and attractive.

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Purple

Image source: https://www.bootstrapdash.com/demo/purple/jquery/template/demo_1/

Purple admin template is your best choice if your project demands a free, bright and vibrant set of admin pages. The dashboard UI elements have clearly been designed to be a good fit for the design of elegant web apps. Whether you’re designing the dashboard for your latest web app or software program, Purple focuses on the visual impression to provide an engaging user experience. It’s well-suited for eCommerce projects, CRM, or any other custom admin panels.

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Majestic Dashboard

Image source: http://www.urbanui.com/majestic/template/index.html

The design of Majestic free admin dashboard is remarkably simple, but super customizable and responsive due to the technologies of CSS framework Bootstrap 4 and scripting in Sass. This dashboard is a good choice for newbies in web development thanks to its well-managed code inside the box and firmly established documentation. We personally like its consistent design for all kinds of up-to-date web apps. Plus, it works super fast on all popular devices.

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ArchitectUI

Image source: https://demo.dashboardpack.com/architectui-html-free/index.html

ArchitectUI is a HTML free dashboard template with a scalable design system that makes website management a fairly simple process. It’s built on top of Bootstrap 4.2.1 and updates with newly developed data on a regular basis. So, if you need a free and straightforward platform Bootstrap admin dashboard template, ArchitectUI dashboard could become your best solution.

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Cool admin

Image source: https://colorlib.com/polygon/cooladmin/index.html

Cool admin is a visually appealing personal website with a responsive layout and sleek widgets design. The dashboard includes the basic kit of snippets and utilities, custom pages, map data boards variations, and a collection of apps and clear chart widgets, that makes Cool admin a good statistical tool. The theme is free of charge with all the features required for Bootstrap.

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Bluebox Free Bootstrap Admin Template

Image source: https://webthemez.com/demo/bluebox-free-bootstrap-admin-template/index.html

Bluebox is a free admin template with a flat design for those who love classics. The theme can’t boast a variety of color patterns but has a pretty strict, clear and focused structure of inner elements. It is an extremely lightweight, simple yet powerful Bootstrap admin dashboard. Bluebox is the well-liked Bootstrap framework that powers Bluebox UI HTML, which gives the site canvas full flexibility.

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Adminator

Image source: https://colorlib.com/polygon/adminator/index.html

Adminator is an open-source admin panel designed with a truly beautiful layout by Colorlib. Free admin dashboard specification took as a basis HTML, HTML5, and CSS Templates. It is super simple and intuitive in use. Adminator helps to analyze the data percentage of total visits, page views, unique visitors, and even the bounce rate of the site. Adminator has a list of standard components like the main dashboard, email, calendar, chat, charts, forms, UI elements, tables, maps, pages, multiple levels, and a perfect scrollbar. They all can be adjusted by web developers to your business needs and you are all set!

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Chameleon Admin Bootstrap Template

Image source: https://themeselection.com/demo/chameleon-free-bootstrap-admin-template/html/ltr/

Chameleon Admin Lite is an open-source dashboard with organized code powered on HTML 5, CSS 3, Bootstrap 4, SASS, Gulp. In the Chameleon package, you get an admin template that comes with a starter kit of well-organized layers, nicely drawn stats widgets, free fonts and icons which will help developers to get started quickly. Chameleon admin panel has the next advantages being SEO ready from start, and secured & optimized code.

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Some Proven Tips to Build an Awesome Admin Page

Choose UI elements specifically tailored for a particular web app;
Use minimalist design. Despite a variety of elements in an admin panel, it should be easy to use;
Make logical structure and use icons to improve navigation;
Assign clear roles to every user;
Add tasks, calendar, and email clients to make teamwork much easier;
Translate your web page targeting audiences all over the world;
Make sure your site loads fast both on mobile and desktop versions;
Make your admin page compatible with all browsers and devices, without exception.

Wrap Up

Making a functional and convenient admin template will improve your business processes, enhancing the relationship between the app and the customer. Build your web app or website faster with pre-built Bootstrap admin templates and a bunch of exciting widgets within to analyze the data visually. Design better UX and have higher conversions. Keep your web development simple and focused with the list of these Bootstrap templates totally free and adaptable supported on all desktop computers and modern mobile phones.

About Flatlogic

At Flatlogic, we help businesses to speed up web development with our beautifully designed web & mobile application templates built with React, Vue, Angular, React Native, and Bootstrap. During the last several years we have successfully delivered more than 100 custom dashboards and data management solutions to various clients starting from innovative startups to established and respected enterprises.

Flatlogic is a kinda synonym for perfection. Web development is our passion. We love beautiful things that work well. We love processes that run smoothly. We deeply care for user experience while using Flatlogic admin templates, because it’s about helping, helping people to build their workflow consistently and efficiently. We strive to make your workflow efficient, coz the speed of life doesn’t always let you have everything going right on track. But we keep going and stay stylish, organized, and inspired.

Bonus!

After the article came out, we kept working with templates, apps, and all things React. We checked out lots of cool bootstrap templates and picked two honorable mentions. Keep reading!

Now UI Dashboard

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At the time of writing the article, we didn’t think much of the Now UI. Its number of components and elements gave us the impression that Now UI is adequate in every relevant way but not quite versatile enough to make it to our top. However, as we tried it for a while it kept growing on us.

Now UI’s 16 free elements don’t sound impressive on paper. However, each element and each feature is so adjustable there may be as many possible results as with some premium solutions.

That minimalist yet versatile toolset leads to another thing we loved about Now UI: its elegant simplicity and ease of use. It doesn’t bother you with too many variables unless you choose to adjust them. Furthermore, the tooltips that emerge when the cursor is left over certain fields help navigate the dashboard and remind us about the options at our disposal.

Bootstrap admin dashboard developers know their target audience mainly consists of people doing a job, not casual users idly browsing the features. Hence the no-nonsense form-follows-function approach they often take. Don’t get this wrong, we think it’s perfectly reasonable. When choosing between a slightly scruffy but functional and dependable dashboard, and a pretty and smooth yet faulty one, we’ll choose the former without a second thought. Still, Now UI’s simplicity was a pleasant surprise. And it will be especially pleasant for newbies still learning the ropes.

Did Now UI displace all competition? No. There are cases where you need those extra elements and that’s why if we had to write this list from scratch we would probably leave it as it is. Still, Now UI’s intuitive user experience and smooth operation earn it an honorable mention.

There’s More!

Sofia React Template

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At the time of writing our very own Bootstrap Dashboard was in production and now we can finally present it to you.

Originally we developed Sofia React Templates as templates for admin panels. But it has many other uses besides that. Like displaying complex data in an easier-to-comprehend graphical form. And it was built with generous use of Bootstrap. Does it qualify as a Bootstrap dashboard? Yes, it does, and a fine one at that!

We took our time picking solutions and technologies to make sure the template works perfectly. Sofia React Free Template is based on Bootstrap 4.6 and React 17. We found that React Hooks and React Router v5 greatly optimize routing, saving you loading time. The SASS preprocessor allows seamless style changes, and we believe it will soon be even more common.

Even the free version of Sofia React boasts dozens of tools and elements. Sofia React Free Template features tables, maps, charts, typography, and many other tools, most of them ready for integration with outside services. Sofia React’s minimalist controls help you learn the ropes in no time. Most beginners are capable of creating interactive dashboards within an hour of casual usage. And should you run out of the free version’s capabilities (which probably won’t be soon), paid versions of Sofia React feature the same interface for a smooth transition with little to no additional training.

Creating your web applications with Flatlogic

At Flatlogic, our goal is to speed up your web. You’ll find plenty of options in our catalog, based on a variety of frameworks and languages, and fitting various use cases. Alternatively, you can go to Flatlogic.com and tailor your web app with our block constructor. This option lets you tailor custom solutions without the custom price. Each choice you’ll make is either intuitive or understandable with minimum research. To give it a try, go to Flatlogic Platform and create a trial app for free!

How does it work?

There is a term CRUD in web dev which stands for Create, Read, Update and Delete. Those actions sum up the core functionality of just about any web app. If you think about it, every action an end-user takes leads to one of the four actions performed ‘behind the curtains’. We followed a similar approach when developing Flatlogic Platform. Flatlogic Platform takes headless CMS development and strips it down to a few choices.

#1: Choose the Name

This part is simple by any standard. You pick a name that is easy for you to associate with the project.

#2: Select Web App Stack

‘Web App Stack’ might sound like just a list of words if you’re a beginner. The application’s stack is the array of technologies used in different parts of the application. The parts are the database, admin panel, and the back-end that makes everything work together. Choosing those is intuitive for experienced web developers. For everyone else, a quick Google research will suffice.

#3: Select Design

Usually, choosing the admin template’s design boils down to personal taste. However, different design options can be based on different technologies. Admin panels and design patterns based on different frameworks are still compatible, we saw to that. Still, going with higher uniformity reduces the chance of any compatibility issues in the future.

#4: Build Schema

We chose the underlying technology of your database in step 2. Now it’s time to deal with the schema. A database’s schema is the structure of the database. It defines lines, columns, names, data types, and how they affect each other. If you’re unsure or short on time, the Flatlogic platform has ready schemas for you to try.

#5: Review and Generate

All the choices have been made. Review them, make sure they suit your needs and press the Create Project button. After a brief compilation, Flatlogic will offer you your very own application. You can use it, push it to GitHub, and host it in one click without using outside services. Well done, sir or madam!

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