CoreUI Free Bootstrap Admin Template — Built for AI-Assisted Development 
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.
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
.cursorrules - Comprehensive AI context file with project conventions, patterns, and guidelinesARCHITECTURE.md - Detailed technical documentation covering the project structure, build pipeline, and component organizationDEVELOPMENT.md - Practical developer guide with examples and best practices- JSDoc Comments - All JavaScript modules include detailed documentation with @param and @returns annotations
Benefits
- 🤖 Smart Code Generation - AI understands your project uses CoreUI Bootstrap (not Tailwind CSS)
- 📚 Better Context Awareness - AI knows the project structure, conventions, and patterns
- ✨ Consistent Code Style - AI generates code following ESLint/Stylelint rules automatically
- 🚀 Faster Development - Less time explaining, more time building
- 💡 Intelligent Suggestions - AI provides relevant component examples from CoreUI documentation
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:
- Project architecture and file organization
- CoreUI Bootstrap component usage
- Pug templating patterns
- Sass/SCSS styling conventions
- JavaScript module patterns
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
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 and license
copyright 2026 creativeLabs Łukasz Holeczek. Code released under the MIT license.
一个免费开源的 Bootstrap 5 管理后台模板，基于 CoreUI 自主开发的手工打造 UI 组件库构建，可作为搭建管理后台和仪表盘的起点。