Django Material Dashboard

Open-source Django project crafted on top of Material Dashboard, an open-source Boostrap 5 design from Creative-Tim The product is designed to deliver the best possible user experience with highly customizable feature-rich pages. Material Material has easy and intuitive responsive design whether it is viewed on retina screens or laptops.

• 👉 Django Material Dashboard - Product page
• 👉 Django Material Dashboard - LIVE Demo
• 🛒 Django Material Dashboard PRO - Premium Version

Features:

• ✅ Up-to-date Dependencies
• ✅ Theme: Django Admin Material, designed by Creative-Tim
  • can be used in any Django project (new or legacy)
• ✅ Authentication: Django.contrib.AUTH, Registration
• 🚀 Deployment
  • CI/CD flow via Render

Manual Build

👉 Download the code

$ git clone https://github.com/app-generator/django-material-dashboard.git
$ cd django-material-dashboard

👉 Install modules via VENV

$ virtualenv env
$ source env/bin/activate
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

👉 Set Up Database

$ python manage.py makemigrations
$ python manage.py migrate

👉 Create the Superuser

$ python manage.py createsuperuser

👉 Start the app

$ python manage.py runserver

At this point, the app runs at http://127.0.0.1:8000/.

Codebase structure

The project is coded using a simple and intuitive structure presented below:

< PROJECT ROOT >
   |
   |-- core/                            
   |    |-- settings.py                  # Project Configuration  
   |    |-- urls.py                      # Project Routing
   |
   |-- home/
   |    |-- views.py                     # APP Views 
   |    |-- urls.py                      # APP Routing
   |    |-- models.py                    # APP Models 
   |    |-- tests.py                     # Tests  
   |    |-- templates/                   # Theme Customisation 
   |         |-- includes                # 
   |              |-- custom-footer.py   # Custom Footer      
   |     
   |-- requirements.txt                  # Project Dependencies
   |
   |-- env.sample                        # ENV Configuration (default values)
   |-- manage.py                         # Start the app - Django default start script
   |
   |-- ************************************************************************

How to Customize

When a template file is loaded, Django scans all template directories starting from the ones defined by the user, and returns the first match or an error in case the template is not found. The theme used to style this starter provides the following files:

# This exists in ENV: LIB/admin_material
< UI_LIBRARY_ROOT >                      
   |
   |-- templates/                     # Root Templates Folder 
   |    |          
   |    |-- accounts/       
   |    |    |-- login.html           # Sign IN Page
   |    |    |-- register.html        # Sign UP Page
   |    |
   |    |-- includes/       
   |    |    |-- footer.html          # Footer component
   |    |    |-- sidebar.html         # Sidebar component
   |    |    |-- navigation.html      # Navigation Bar
   |    |    |-- scripts.html         # Scripts Component
   |    |
   |    |-- layouts/       
   |    |    |-- base.html            # Masterpage
   |    |    |-- base-auth.html       # Masterpage for Auth Pages
   |    |
   |    |-- pages/       
   |         |-- index.html           # Dashboard Page
   |         |-- profile.html         # Profile Page
   |         |-- *.html               # All other pages
   |    
   |-- ************************************************************************

When the project requires customization, we need to copy the original file that needs an update (from the virtual environment) and place it in the template folder using the same path.

For instance, if we want to customize the footer.html these are the steps:

• ✅ Step 1: create the templates DIRECTORY inside the home app
• ✅ Step 2: configure the project to use this new template directory
  • core/settings.py TEMPLATES section
• ✅ Step 3: copy the footer.html from the original location (inside your ENV) and save it to the home/templates DIR
  • Source PATH: <YOUR_ENV>/LIB/admin_material/template/includes/footer.html
  • Destination PATH: <PROJECT_ROOT>home/templates/includes/footer.html

To speed up all these steps, the codebase is already configured (Steps 1, and 2) and a custom footer can be found at this location:

home/templates/includes/custom_footer.html

By default, this file is unused because the theme expects footer.html (without the custom- prefix).

In order to use it, simply rename it to footer.html. Like this, the default version shipped in the library is ignored by Django.

In a similar way, all other files and components can be customized easily.

CSS Styling

The UI can be customized via the SCSS file. This setup was tested using:

• Node v16.15.0
• Yarn 1.22.18
• Gulp CLI version: 2.3.0, Local version: 4.0.2

$ cd static
$ yarn                                       # Install Modules 
$ vi scss/material-dashboard/_variables.scss # Edit primary, secondary colors
$ gulp                                       # Regenerate CSS files   

NOTE, once the CSS files are successfully regenerated, force a hard refresh in the browser (Shift + F5 in Chrome).

The relevant lines in _variables.scss are highlighted below:

// _variables.scss, LINES 56 -> 63
$primary:       #e91e63 !default;   // EDIT & Recompile SCSS
$secondary:     #7b809a !default;   // EDIT & Recompile SCSS
$info:          #1A73E8 !default;   // EDIT & Recompile SCSS
$success:       #4CAF50 !default;   // EDIT & Recompile SCSS
$warning:       #fb8c00 !default;   // EDIT & Recompile SCSS
$danger:        #F44335 !default;   // EDIT & Recompile SCSS
$light:         $gray-200 !default; // EDIT & Recompile SCSS
$dark:          $h-color !default;  // EDIT & Recompile SCSS

Deploy on Render

• Create a Blueprint instance
  • Go to https://dashboard.render.com/blueprints this link.
• Click New Blueprint Instance button.
• Connect your repo which you want to deploy.
• Fill the Service Group Name and click on Update Existing Resources button.
• After that your deployment will start automatically.

At this point, the product should be LIVE.

PRO Version

This design is a pixel-perfect Bootstrap 5 Dashboard with a fresh, new design inspired by Google's Material Design. Material Dashboard 2 PRO is built with over 300 frontend individual elements, like buttons, inputs, navbars, nav tabs, cards, or alerts, giving you the freedom of choosing and combining.

Features:

• ✅ Up-to-date Dependencies
• ✅ Design: Django Theme Material2 - PRO Version
• ✅ Sections covered by the design:
  • ✅ Admin section (reserved for superusers)
  • ✅ Authentication: Django.contrib.AUTH, Registration
  • ✅ All Pages available in for ordinary users
• ✅ Docker
• 🚀 Deployment
  • CI/CD flow via Render

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