Free Django v4 Starter - Soft UI Dashboard
Tags: webdev, django, python, opensource
Published: 2022-01-17 16:12:15

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title: Free Django v4 Starter - Soft UI Dashboard
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description: Open-Source seed project crafted with automation tools on top of Django version 4 and a pixel-perfect Bootstrap 5 design - Soft UI Dashboard.
tags: webdev, django, python, opensource
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Hello Coders! 

This article presents an `open-source dashboard` starter recently updated to work with the latest **Django** version. For newcomers, `Django` is a leading web framework powered by Python, updated in December 2021 to version 4. [Soft UI Dashboard Django](https://appseed.us/product/django-soft-ui-dashboard) can be downloaded under the MIT license directly from Github and used for unlimited commercial end products or simply for eLearning activities. 

> Thanks for reading!

- 👉 [Soft UI Dashboard Django](https://django-soft-ui-dashboard.appseed-srv1.com/) - LIVE Demo
- 👉 [Soft UI Dashboard Django](https://github.com/app-generator/django-soft-ui-dashboard) - sources (published on GH)
- ✨ Get [support](https://appseed.us/support) via email and [Discord](https://discord.gg/fZC6hup)

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Designed for those who like bold elements and beautiful dashboards, **Soft UI Dashboard** is ready to help you create stunning websites and web apps. This pixel-perfect **Bootstrap 5** design is provided by `Creative-Tim` agency.

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The product can be compiled and used in a local environment via the Docker setup shipped with the sources.

> **Step #1** -  Clone source code (from Github)

```bash
$ git clone https://github.com/app-generator/django-soft-ui-dashboard.git
$ cd django-soft-ui-dashboard
```

> **Step #2** - Start in Docker

```bash
$ docker-compose up --build 
```

Once the above commands are executed, we should be able to visit the app in the browser, register new users, and authenticate.

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![Django 4 Soft UI Dashboard - Login Page.](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/48y17u2feirj4t9fj7qo.png)

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## ✨ Django 4 Updates

The [Django framework got an update](https://blog.appseed.us/django-v4-release/) in December from version v3.2.6 to v4.0 with a few improvements and breaking changes highlighted below:

- `zoneInfo` becomes the default time zone
- `Template-based` form rendering
- Built-in `RedisCache` backend powered by redis-py
- `scrypt` password hasher (more powerful than PBKDF2)
- `Deprecated support` for PostgreSQL v9.6 and Oracle v12.2

For more information feel free to access the official [Django v4.x release page](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/releases/4.0/).

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## ✨ Soft UI Design

**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.

You will save a lot of time going from prototyping to full-functional code because all elements are implemented. This Free Bootstrap 5 Dashboard is coming with prebuilt design blocks, so the development process is seamless, switching from our pages to the real website is very easy to be done.

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![Django 4 Soft UI Dashboard - User Profile Page](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/nzxutago0fb245uf3z57.png)

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> Django 4 Soft Dashboard - Billing Page

![Django 4 Soft UI Dashboard - Billing Page.](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/40lebx8uj3ccehrzuczn.png)
 
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> Thanks for reading! For more resources, feel free to acess:

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- 🎁 More [Free Dashboards](https://appseed.us/admin-dashboards/open-source) crafted in `React`, `Flask`, and **Django**
- 🎁 Free [React Dashboards](https://dev.to/sm0ke/react-dashboards-open-source-apps-1c7j) - curated list published on Dev.to