coreui-free-bootstrap-admin-template README

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License: MIT @coreui coreui npm package NPM downloads

Bootstrap Admin Template

CoreUI Bootstrap Admin Panel Template is not another blend of 3rd parties free components and libraries. It's the only Open Source Bootstrap Admin Dashboard Template built on the enterprise-grade hand-crafted UI Components Library created and backed by professionals. CoreUI Admin Template helps you build reliable web apps faster than before. CoreUI offers 4 versions: Angular, Bootstrap, React.js, and Vue.js.

Curious why I decided to create CoreUI? Please read this article: Jack of all trades, master of none. Why Bootstrap Admin Templates suck.

Table of Contents

Frameworks

CoreUI is built on top of Bootstrap 5 and supports popular frameworks.

CoreUI PRO

CoreUI PRO Bootstrap Admin Templates

Default Theme Light Theme
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Modern Theme Bright Theme
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CoreUI Icons (522 Free icons) - Premium designed free icon set with marks in SVG, Webfont and raster formats.

CoreUI Icons are beautifully crafted symbols for common actions and items. You can use them in your digital products for web or mobile app. Ready-to-use fonts and stylesheets that work with your favorite frameworks.

CoreUI Free Icons

Download CoreUI Free Icons

Data Grid

CoreUI JavaScript Data Grid handles 100,000+ rows with sorting, filtering, virtualization, column pinning, inline editing and CSV export — using the same markup and stylesheet this template already uses.

npm install @coreui/data-grid

One license also covers React, Vue and Angular. It's a separate add-on, not part of CoreUI PRO.

Scheduler

CoreUI JavaScript Scheduler ships six views — day, week, month, agenda, resources, and timeline — with drag & drop, RFC 5545 recurrence, and DST-safe time handling, using the same markup and stylesheet this template already uses.

npm install @coreui/scheduler

One license also covers React, Vue and Angular. It's a separate add-on, not part of CoreUI PRO.

Installation

Clone repo

# clone the repo
$ git clone https://github.com/coreui/coreui-free-bootstrap-admin-template.git my-project

# go into app's directory
$ cd my-project

# install app's dependencies
$ npm install

Usage

# serve with hot reload at localhost:3000.
$ npm start

# build for production with minification
$ npm run build

What's included

Within the download you'll find the following directories and files, logically grouping common assets and providing both compiled and minified variations. You'll see something like this:

free-bootstrap-admin-template/
├── build/
├── src/
│   ├── assets/
│   │   ├── brand/
│   │   ├── favicon/
│   │   └── img/
│   ├── js/
│   ├── pug/
│   │   ├── _layout/
│   │   ├── _mixins/
│   │   ├── _partials/
│   │   └── views/
│   │       ├── authentication/
│   │       ├── components/
│   │       ├── error-pages/
│   │       ├── forms/
│   │       ├── icons/
│   │       ├── index.pug
│   │       └── ...
│   ├── scss/
│   └── views/
│       ├── authentication/
│       ├── components/
│       ├── error-pages/
│       ├── forms/
│       ├── icons/
│       ├── index.html
│       └── ...
└── package.json

AI-Friendly Development

This template is optimized for AI-assisted development, making it easier to work with AI coding assistants like Cursor, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot.

What's Included

Benefits

Quick Start with AI

Simply open the project in your AI-powered IDE (Cursor, VS Code with Copilot, etc.) and the AI will automatically understand:

Documentation

The documentation for the CoreUI Free Bootstrap Admin Template is hosted at our website CoreUI

Components

CoreUI Bootstrap Admin Templates are built on top of CoreUI and CoreUI PRO UI components libraries, including all of these components.

Contributing

Please read through our contributing guidelines. Included are directions for opening issues, coding standards, and notes on development.

Editor preferences are available in the editor config for easy use in common text editors. Read more and download plugins at http://editorconfig.org.

Versioning

For transparency into our release cycle and in striving to maintain backward compatibility,CoreUI Free Admin Template is maintained under the Semantic Versioning guidelines.

See the Releases section of our project for changelogs for each release version.

Creators

Łukasz Holeczek

Andrzej Kopański

CoreUI Team

Community

Get updates on CoreUI's development and chat with the project maintainers and community members.

Support CoreUI Development

CoreUI is an MIT-licensed open source project and is completely free to use. However, the amount of effort needed to maintain and develop new features for the project is not sustainable without proper financial backing. You can support development by buying the CoreUI PRO or by becoming a sponsor via Open Collective.

copyright 2026 creativeLabs Łukasz Holeczek. Code released under the MIT license.

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Coreui-free-bootstrap-admin-template
What is this?A free, open-source Bootstrap 5 admin dashboard template built on CoreUI's own hand-crafted UI component library, used as a starting point for building admin panels and dashboards.
Is this a finished app or just a UI template I build on top of?It's a frontend UI template/component library built on top of Bootstrap 5, not a standalone running app - you take its HTML/SCSS/JS files and build your own project on top of it.
How do I get it running locally?Clone the repository, then install the npm dependencies and run the build scripts (for example the 'css', 'js' and 'build' npm-run-all tasks) to compile the SCSS and JS into the dist folder.
What do I need installed to build it?Node.js and npm are required to run the build pipeline, which relies on packages like @coreui/coreui, @coreui/icons, @coreui/chartjs, chart.js, simplebar, sass, stylelint and ESLint.
What's missing from the free version compared to CoreUI PRO?The free template skips PRO-only components (Autocomplete, Calendar, Date Picker, Multi Select, Stepper, Rating, etc.), and the Data Grid and Scheduler are separate paid add-ons not bundled with either the free template or CoreUI PRO.
Does CoreUI offer versions for other frameworks besides plain Bootstrap?Yes, alongside this Bootstrap template CoreUI also ships dedicated Angular, React.js and Vue.js admin templates, both free and PRO.
What's included in the AI-assisted development setup?The repo ships with a .cursorrules context file, ARCHITECTURE.md, DEVELOPMENT.md and JSDoc-commented JS modules so tools like Cursor, Claude Code and GitHub Copilot understand the project's Bootstrap/Pug/SCSS conventions out of the box.
Why not just use plain Bootstrap components?CoreUI wraps Bootstrap 5 in its own hand-crafted component library (sidebar, charts, tables, etc.) instead of stitching together random third-party plugins, so the components stay consistent and documented.
What UI components come with the free template?It includes dozens of Bootstrap components such as Accordion, Alert, Avatar, Badge, Card, Modal, Navbar, Sidebar, Table and Tooltip, with some advanced ones (Autocomplete, Date Picker, Stepper, Rating) reserved for CoreUI PRO.
What are similar projects?AdminLTE, tabler, gentelella, blur-admin, mdb-ui-kit, ngx-admin, vuestic-admin, vue-admin-better
Which topics is it in?bootstrap5, admin-ui, admin-template, admin-panel, bootstrap, scss, admin, ui-kit, responsive, ui-library, admin-dashboard, design-system
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