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bymilon/aether-nexus-dashboard

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TLDR

Free React 19 admin dashboard starter with KPI cards, charts, task queues, and a placeholder AI helper panel. Frontend only, ready to fork.

Mindmap

mindmap
  root((aether-nexus))
    Inputs
      Sample data in tsx
      Tailwind config
    Outputs
      Three-pane dashboard
      KPI cards
      Activity feed
    Use Cases
      Internal tool template
      Analytics prototype
      AI workflow demo
    Tech Stack
      React 19
      TypeScript
      Vite
      Tailwind

Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Fork as a starter for an internal admin dashboard

USE CASE 2

Drop in real API data to replace the sample KPIs and charts

USE CASE 3

Wire the AURA panel to a real LLM for an AI helper sidebar

USE CASE 4

Prototype an analytics product layout before backend work

Tech stack

ReactTypeScriptViteTailwindBunRecharts

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

Needs Bun installed; git clone, bun install, bun run dev and the dashboard is on port 3000.

MIT licence lets anyone use, modify, and redistribute the code as long as the copyright notice is kept.

In plain English

Aether Nexus Dashboard is a free starter template for building an admin dashboard, the kind of interior screen a team uses to track operations, charts, and queues of work. The README describes it as a dense, frontend-only React layout that someone can copy and reshape into an internal tool, an analytics product, or a prototype for an AI workflow. The template ships with a three-pane layout that adapts to mobile, plus the usual dashboard furniture: KPI cards, small sparkline charts, larger area charts, task review queues, and an activity feed down one side. A side panel called AURA is set up as a placeholder for an AI helper that would assist with diagnostics or review work. Everything is static. There is no backend, no API keys, and no runtime environment variables, which means the included data is just example content meant to be replaced. The stack is React 19, TypeScript, Vite 6 for the build tool, Tailwind CSS 4 for styling, Recharts for the charts, Lucide React for the icons, and Bun as the package manager and runtime. Setup is a git clone, then bun install, then bun run dev to start a local server on port 3000. There are also scripts for a production build, a preview of that build, and a type-check pass. Customization is described as editing a handful of files directly. Navigation copy lives in Sidebar.tsx, the KPI and chart sample data lives in MainContent.tsx, the AI panel content lives in AIPanel.tsx, and theming lives in index.css. A DESIGN.md file holds visual notes and a TODO.md file lists planned tasks in a Linear-style format. The project welcomes pull requests, asks contributors to run the lint and build scripts before submitting, and points security reports to a separate SECURITY.md file rather than public issues. It is released under the MIT license.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Clone aether-nexus-dashboard and start it with bun run dev on port 3000
Prompt 2
Replace the static KPI data in MainContent.tsx with a fetch from my API
Prompt 3
Wire the AURA AI panel to an OpenAI or Claude streaming endpoint
Prompt 4
Re-theme the dashboard for a dark green brand by editing index.css
Prompt 5
Add a new sidebar route in Sidebar.tsx and a matching content page
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