Soft UI Dashboard Django - Free Product

Hello! This article presents the latest freebie released by Creative-Tim agency using Django and a modern Bootstrap 5 design: Soft UI Dashboard. The product comes with a few features that might help beginners, and not only, to code faster a new dashboard. For newcomers, Django is a leading web framework versioned and actively supported by experienced programmers. Thanks for reading!  

• ✨ Soft UI Dashboard Django - product page
• ✨ Soft UI Dashboard Django - LIVE Demo

Official Product Information

Start your development with a modern Bootstrap 5 Admin template for Django. Designed for those who like bold elements and beautiful dashboards, 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.

Django codebase is crafted using a simple, modular structure that follows the best practices and provides authentication, database configuration, and deployment scripts for Docker, a popular virtualization software. Any developer with basic Django/Python knowledge, by following the product documentation should be able to compile and use the app by typing only a few lines in the terminal.

• Up-to-date dependencies: Django 3.2.6 LTS
• SCSS compilation via Gulp
• UI-Ready app, SQLite Database, Django Native ORM
• Modular Design, clean code-base
• Session-Based Authentication, Forms validation
• Deployment scripts: Docker Integration, Gunicorn/Nginx

Example Pages - 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.

Soft UI Dashboard - Billing Page

How To Use It

The product can be compiled and started in a local environment using two strategies:

• Manual build by following the steps provided by the project README
• Via Docker: fewer commands

In the next section, we will start the project using the Docker configuration shipped with the product.  Let's go!

Step #1 - Access the product page and download the ZIP archive

$ unzip soft-ui-dashboard-django.zip
$ cd soft-ui-dashboard-django

Step #2 - Start in Docker

$ docker-compose pull   # download modules
$ docker-compose build  # local set up
$ docker-compose up     # start the app  

Once all the above commands are executed, we should see Soft UI Dashboard running in the browser http://localhost:85.

By default, the app redirects guest users to the login page to authenticate. After we are successfully authenticated, the app unlocks access to all private pages like the dashboard, billing page, and user profile.

Thanks for Reading! For more resources, please access:

• Creative-Tim for support and more free starters
• Soft UI Dashboard PRO Django - for more pages and components

Soft UI Dashboard PRO is built with over 300 frontend individual elements, like buttons, inputs, navbars, nav tabs, cards, or alerts, giving you the freedom of choosing and combining.