Soft UI Dashboard - Bootstrap 5 FREE Django Template
Tags: webdev, django, python
Published: 2021-05-31 06:23:33

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title: Soft UI Dashboard - Bootstrap 5 FREE Django Template
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description: A simple Django Template that might help beginners to code faster a production-ready project
tags: webdev, django, python
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Hello Coders,

This article presents a simple **[Django Template](https://dev.to/sm0ke/django-templates-short-introduction-and-free-samples-2878)** that might help beginners to *learn by coding* new features on top of an existing codebase enhanced with authentication, deployment script and a modern Bootstrap 5 design: **Soft UI Dashboard**. Product can be downloaded from Github and used for hobby & commercial project without restrictions (footer link, registration lock).  

> *Thanks for reading!* - Content provided by **[App Generator](https://appseed.us/)**.

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- ✨ [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) - source code
- ✨ [Minimal Programming Kit](https://docs.appseed.us/content/tutorials/minimal-programming-kit) - a short list with tools for beginners

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![Soft UI Dashboard - Open-source Django Starter.](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/tc21c449jmdtx366n49c.png)

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Design Information - Designed for those who like bold elements and beautiful websites, **Soft UI Dashboard** is made of hundred of elements, designed blocks and fully coded pages. This Bootstrap 5 design is built with over 70 frontend individual elements, like buttons, inputs, navbars, navtabs, cards or alerts, giving you the freedom of choosing and combing.

> [Soft UI Dashboard](https://bit.ly/2Q1uIfK) - HTML Version

Using **Soft UI Dashboard** developers and designers 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](https://appseed.us/admin-dashboards/django/)** Codebase

The "app" version comes with database, authentication, ORM and deployment scripts for Docker. To compile the project locally, a [minimal programming kit](https://docs.appseed.us/content/tutorials/minimal-programming-kit) is required with a few tools and libraries:

- A modern editor - **VSCode** or **Atom**
- **Nodejs** - used in Javascript-based products and tools
- **Python** - a modern script language used for many types of projects
- **GIT** - a command-line tool used to download sources from Github

Once all the tools are installed, we can start the build and follow the instructions provided in the official [docs](https://docs.appseed.us/products/django-dashboards/soft-ui-dashboard):

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> **Step #1** - Clone the source code

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

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> **Step #2** - Install modules and dependencies

```bash
$ virtualenv env
$ source env/bin/activate
$
$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt
```

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> **Step #3** - Set up database and tables
  
```bash
$ python manage.py makemigrations
$ python manage.py migrate
```

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> **Step #4** - Start the app

```bash
$ python manage.py runserver
```

Il all goes well we should see this simple Django starter running in the browser:

![Soft UI Dashboard - Django Template.](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/zqcw3iu6boejr7ig4u0s.png)

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> Soft UI Dashboard - User Profile

![Soft UI Dashboard - Profile Page.](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/4c40e2caimsindpkqv3x.png)

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> **Thanks for reading!** For more resources and support, please access:

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- More [Django Dashboards](https://appseed.us/admin-dashboards/django) provided with same features
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