Django Dashboard Material Design
Admin dashboard generated by AppSeed in Django Framework.
Material Dashboard is a free Material Bootstrap 4 Admin with a fresh, new design inspired by Google's Material Design. Material Dashboard comes with 5 color filter choices for both the sidebar and the card headers (blue, green, orange, red and purple) and an option to have a background image on the sidebar.
Features
- UI-Ready app, SQLite Database, Django Native ORM
- Modular design, clean code-base
- Session-Based Authentication, Forms validation
- Deployment scripts: Docker, Gunicorn / Nginx
- Support via Github and Discord.
Links
- Django Dashboard Material - product page
- Django Dashboard Material - Demo - LIVE App
- Django Dashboard Material - Docs - product documentation
PRO versions include Premium UI Kits, Lifetime updates and 24/7 LIVE Support (via Discord)
Django Datta PRO | Django Material PRO | Django Volt PRO |
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$ # Get the code
$ git clone https://github.com/app-generator/django-dashboard-material.git
$ cd django-dashboard-material
$
$ # Virtualenv modules installation (Unix based systems)
$ virtualenv env
$ source env/bin/activate
$
$ # Virtualenv modules installation (Windows based systems)
$ # virtualenv env
$ # .\env\Scripts\activate
$
$ # Install modules - SQLite Storage
$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt
$
$ # Create tables
$ python manage.py makemigrations
$ python manage.py migrate
$
$ # Start the application (development mode)
$ python manage.py runserver # default port 8000
$
$ # Start the app - custom port
$ # python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:<your_port>
$
$ # Access the web app in browser: http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Note: To use the app, please access the registration page and create a new user. After authentication, the app will unlock the private pages.
The project is coded using a simple and intuitive structure presented bellow:
< PROJECT ROOT >
|
|-- core/ # Implements app logic and serve the static assets
| |-- settings.py # Django app bootstrapper
| |-- wsgi.py # Start the app in production
| |-- urls.py # Define URLs served by all apps/nodes
| |
| |-- static/
| | |-- <css, JS, images> # CSS files, Javascripts files
| |
| |-- templates/ # Templates used to render pages
| |
| |-- includes/ # HTML chunks and components
| | |-- navigation.html # Top menu component
| | |-- sidebar.html # Sidebar component
| | |-- footer.html # App Footer
| | |-- scripts.html # Scripts common to all pages
| |
| |-- layouts/ # Master pages
| | |-- base-fullscreen.html # Used by Authentication pages
| | |-- base.html # Used by common pages
| |
| |-- accounts/ # Authentication pages
| | |-- login.html # Login page
| | |-- register.html # Register page
| |
| index.html # The default page
| page-404.html # Error 404 page
| page-500.html # Error 404 page
| *.html # All other HTML pages
|
|-- authentication/ # Handles auth routes (login and register)
| |
| |-- urls.py # Define authentication routes
| |-- views.py # Handles login and registration
| |-- forms.py # Define auth forms
|
|-- app/ # A simple app that serve HTML files
| |
| |-- views.py # Serve HTML pages for authenticated users
| |-- urls.py # Define some super simple routes
|
|-- requirements.txt # Development modules - SQLite storage
|
|-- .env # Inject Configuration via Environment
|-- manage.py # Start the app - Django default start script
|
|-- ************************************************************************
The bootstrap flow
- Django bootstrapper
manage.py
usescore/settings.py
as the main configuration file core/settings.py
loads the app magic from.env
file- Redirect the guest users to Login page
- Unlock the pages served by app node for authenticated users
The app is provided with a basic configuration to be executed in Docker, Gunicorn, and Waitress.
Docker execution
The application can be easily executed in a docker container. The steps:
Get the code
$ git clone https://github.com/app-generator/django-dashboard-material.git
$ cd django-dashboard-material
Start the app in Docker
$ sudo docker-compose pull && sudo docker-compose build && sudo docker-compose up -d
Visit http://localhost:5005
in your browser. The app should be up & running.
Gunicorn 'Green Unicorn' is a Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX.
Install using pip
$ pip install gunicorn
Start the app using gunicorn binary
$ gunicorn --bind=0.0.0.0:8001 core.wsgi:application
Serving on http://localhost:8001
Visit http://localhost:8001
in your browser. The app should be up & running.
Waitress (Gunicorn equivalent for Windows) is meant to be a production-quality pure-Python WSGI server with very acceptable performance. It has no dependencies except ones that live in the Python standard library.
Install using pip
$ pip install waitress
Start the app using waitress-serve
$ waitress-serve --port=8001 core.wsgi:application
Serving on http://localhost:8001
Visit http://localhost:8001
in your browser. The app should be up & running.
- Django - The official website
- Boilerplate Code - Index provided by AppSeed
- Boilerplate Code - Index published on Github
Django Dashboard Material Design - Provided by AppSeed App Generator.