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colorlibhq/gentelella

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TLDR

Free, modern admin dashboard template built on Bootstrap 5 with Vite, vanilla JavaScript, and 33+ pre-built pages for rapid back-end UI development.

Mindmap

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    What it does
      Admin dashboard template
      Pre-built pages and layouts
      UI component library
    Tech stack
      Bootstrap 5
      Vite build system
      Chart.js
      TypeScript support
    Key features
      Mobile-first design
      Sidebar persistence
      90% smaller bundle
      126 unit tests
    Use cases
      Back-end interfaces
      Admin panels
      Data dashboards
      Internal tools

Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Build an admin panel for a SaaS app by customizing the pre-built dashboard pages and forms.

USE CASE 2

Create an internal business tool with charts, tables, and user management without designing layouts from scratch.

USE CASE 3

Prototype a back-end interface quickly using the 33+ example pages as a starting point.

USE CASE 4

Set up a data dashboard with real-time charts and responsive tables for monitoring metrics.

Tech stack

HTMLCSSJavaScriptTypeScriptBootstrap 5ViteChart.js

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min
Free to use for any purpose, including commercial projects, with attribution to Colorlib.

In plain English

Gentelella is a free, ready-made admin dashboard template, a starter pack of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript pages that look like the back-office of a web app. Instead of designing every chart, table, form, and sidebar from scratch, you copy this project and adapt it to whatever you are building. The visual style is based on Bootstrap 5, the widely used front-end framework, so it inherits Bootstrap's grid, components, and responsive behavior out of the box. The latest releases focus on modernizing the template's plumbing rather than just adding pages. It now uses Vite as its build system, which compiles the assets quickly during development and bundles them efficiently for production. According to the README, the move to Vite shrank the initial JavaScript payload from a 779 KB monolithic bundle to about 79 KB with the rest loaded in smaller chunks on demand. Chart rendering uses ECharts and Chart.js (the README notes that the older Morris.js library was removed), file uploads use Uppy, and the icon system relies on Bootstrap Icons and Font Awesome. There is a shared design-token system for cards and panels so that raised surfaces use consistent radius, shadow, and border values across the template. The bundled pages cover the typical admin-panel inventory: dashboards, forms, tables, charts, calendars, error pages, and a sidebar menu that remembers whether it is collapsed across page navigations. Recent changes emphasize correctness and polish, HTML validity fixes across roughly 34 pages, proper heading hierarchy with one h1 per page, real-time charts that pause when the browser tab is hidden, and an environment-aware base path so the dev server stops 404-ing on certain URLs. The template ships with 126 unit tests written with Vitest. You would pick this template if you need to stand up an admin or analytics interface quickly and want a Bootstrap-based starting point rather than building one from scratch or paying for a commercial theme. The README also points out paid sibling templates from the same publisher, DashboardPack, for projects with bigger needs. The full README is longer than what was provided.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
I want to build an admin dashboard for my web app. How do I customize the Gentelella template to add my own features and branding?
Prompt 2
Show me how to add a new page to the Gentelella dashboard and wire it up with the sidebar navigation.
Prompt 3
How do I replace the sample data in the Gentelella charts with my own API data using vanilla JavaScript?
Prompt 4
What's the best way to modify the Gentelella form components to match my app's validation and styling requirements?
Prompt 5
How do I set up TypeScript in the Gentelella template and convert existing JavaScript files to use it?
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