Django Star Admin - Open-source / Bootstrap 5 / Docker / CookieCutter

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Hello Coders!

This article presents an open-source Django Dashboard that has all the ready-to-use bare minimum essentials: database, authentication, Docker support, and a modern Bootstrap 5 design: Star Admin 2. The product can be downloaded from Github and used for unlimited hobby & commercial products. For newcomers, Star Admin is an iconic template recently migrated to Bootstrap 5, and Django is a leading framework actively supported and versioned by programming experts.

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👉 Star Admin Django - Product page
👉 Star Admin Django - LIVE demo
✨ For support via Discord join AppSeed

✨ Product Features

This simple project comes with basic features, up-to-date dependencies, and a modern Bootstrap 5 design that was released for free by BootstrapDash.

👉 Up-to-date dependencies: Django 3.2.6 LTS
👉 SCSS compilation via Gulp
👉 UI Kit: Star Admin 2 (Free Version)
👉 Session-Based Authentication, Forms validation
👉 Deployment scripts: Docker, Gunicorn / Nginx
👉 Support via Github and Discord.

The product can be used and compiled in a local environment in multiple ways. Probably the most simple one is via Docker.

✨ Start In Docker

Django Star Admin comes with a simple Docker configuration that starts the project using Gunicorn behind an Nginx proxy. Let's follow the setup as suggested in the project README and see the project in action.

👉 Step #1 - Clone Sources

$ git clone https://github.com/app-generator/django-star-admin.git
$ cd django-star-admin

👉 Step #2 - Start in Docker

$ docker-compose up --build

Once all the above commands are executed, we should be able to access the project in the browser at the address http://localhost:85.

✨ Generate via CookieCutter

The same codebase can be generated and started using the popular CookieCutter tool. During the generation process, the sources are downloaded from a remote repository and configured locally to match the user choices.

👉 Step #1 - Install cookiecutter tool

$ pip install cookiecutter

👉 Step #2 - Generate the code via Django Cookie Cutter

$ cookiecutter https://github.com/app-generator/cookiecutter-django.git
>>> project_name [Django Seed project]: Django Star Admin
>>> project_slug [django_star_admin]:
>>> description [A simple Django project]:
>>> author_name [AppSeed]: your name
>>> domain_name [example.com]: localhost
>>> email [your-name@example.com]: bill@microsoft.com
>>> version [0.0.1]:
>>> Select theme:
1 - volt
2 - soft-ui
3 - datta-able
4 - material-dashboard
5 - star-admin
Choose from 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 [1]: 5      <----- Select STAR ADMIN design
>>> Select database:
1 - sqlite3
2 - mysql
3 - postgresql
>>> Choose from 1, 2, 3 [1]:
database_name [appseed_django]:
database_user [appseed_user]:
database_pass [Pass1234]:
PRE Gen hook executed
 Cloning theme: <star-admin>, REPO: https://github.com/app-generator/django-star-admin.git
 ...done
POST Gen hook executed
 *** Copy assets
 ...done
 *** Copy templates
 ...done

At this point, the source code is generated and we can use the sources.

$ cd django-star-admin
$ docker-compose up --build

✨ Design Information

Beautifully designed and well-coded admin template, that comes with excellent support from experts. Built using the latest technologies and up to date with the latest trends and tools. Star Admin 2 is the perfect amalgamation of beautiful design and meticulously well-written code.

This template comes with an MIT license ( free for commercial use).