Soft Dashboard - Open-Source Flask Starter

Open-Source seed project crafted in Flask with database, authentication, and Docker support on top of Soft UI Dashboard, a modern Bootstrap 5 design.

A colorful page with many charts and widgets, all provided by Flask Soft Dashboard (free product).
Soft UI Dashboard - Open-Source Flask Starter

Hello! This article presents an open-source Flask Dashboard crafted with all the bare minimum essentials for a simple starter: authentication, database, modular codebase, and Docker support, all nicely bundled on top of a Bootstrap 5 design. Flask Soft Dashboard is available for download directly from Github, under the MIT License. Thanks for reading!

Designed for those who like bold elements and beautiful websites, Soft UI Dashboard is ready to help you create stunning websites and web apps.

Soft UI Dashboard is built with over 70 frontend individual elements, like buttons, inputs, navbars, nav tabs, cards, or alerts, giving you the freedom of choosing and combining. All components can take variations in color, that you can easily modify using SASS files and classes.


✨ Product Features

  • Up-to-date dependencies: Flask 2.0.1
  • SCSS compilation via Gulp
  • UI Kit: Soft UI Dashboard (Free Version) provided by Creative-Tim
  • DB Tools: SQLAlchemy ORM, Flask-Migrate (schema migrations)
  • Modular design with Blueprints
  • Session-Based authentication (via flask_login), Forms validation
  • Deployment: Docker, Gunicorn / Nginx, HEROKU
  • Support via Github (issues tracker) and Discord.

Probably the most easier way to compile and start the product in a local environment is to use the Docker setup, shipped with the product out-of-the-box.

Step #1 - Clone sources from the public repository

$ git clone https://github.com/app-generator/flask-soft-ui-dashboard.git
$ cd flask-soft-ui-dashboard
Flask Soft Dashboard - Clone Sources 

Step #2 - Start in Docker

$ docker-compose up --build 
Flask Soft Dashboard - Start in Docker

Once all the above commands are executed, we should be able to access the app in the browser, register new users, authenticate and interact with the UI.

A futuristic login page with a simple form on the left and a colorful image with distorted lines on the right, all provided by Flask Soft UI Dashboard.
Flask Soft Dashboard - Login Page

If you want to get inspiration or just show something directly to your clients, you can jump-start your development with our pre-built example pages. You will be able to quickly set up the basic structure for your web project.

A futiristic VR page with a suspended UI elements: a menu on the left and app widgets in the center, all provided by Flask Soft UI Dashboard.
Flask Soft Dashboard - VR Page
Flask Soft UI Dashboard - User Profile Page
Flask Soft Dashboard - User Profile Page.
Flask Soft Dashboard - User Profile Page

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