Flask Material Admin

Open-source Flask Dashboard generated by AppSeed op top of a modern design. Material Admin is free admin template that is entirely built using the framework Google’s Material Design for the Web to comply with the Material Design guidelines. It comes with the basic components and set of pre-built pages required to lay the foundation for any application.

Features

DBMS: SQLite, PostgreSQL (production)
DB Tools: SQLAlchemy ORM, Alembic (schema migrations)
Modular design with Blueprints, simple codebase
Session-Based authentication (via flask_login), Forms validation
Deployment scripts: Docker, Gunicorn / Nginx, Heroku
Support via Github and Discord.

Links

Flask Material Admin - product page
Flask Material Admin - LIVE deployment
Flask Material Admin - product documentation

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How to use it

$ # Get the code
$ git clone https://github.com/app-generator/flask-dashboard-material-admin.git
$ cd flask-dashboard-material-admin
$
$ # 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 Database
$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt
$
$ # OR with PostgreSQL connector
$ # pip install -r requirements-pgsql.txt
$
$ # Set the FLASK_APP environment variable
$ (Unix/Mac) export FLASK_APP=run.py
$ (Windows) set FLASK_APP=run.py
$ (Powershell) $env:FLASK_APP = ".\run.py"
$
$ # Set up the DEBUG environment
$ # (Unix/Mac) export FLASK_ENV=development
$ # (Windows) set FLASK_ENV=development
$ # (Powershell) $env:FLASK_ENV = "development"
$
$ # Start the application (development mode)
$ # --host=0.0.0.0 - expose the app on all network interfaces (default 127.0.0.1)
$ # --port=5000    - specify the app port (default 5000)  
$ flask run --host=0.0.0.0 --port=5000
$
$ # Access the dashboard in browser: http://127.0.0.1:5000/

Deployment

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/flask-dashboard-material-admin.git
$ cd flask-dashboard-material-admin

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

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 run:app
Serving on http://localhost:8001

Visit http://localhost:8001 in your browser. The app should be up & running.

Waitress

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 run:app
Serving on http://localhost:8001

Visit http://localhost:8001 in your browser. The app should be up & running.

Flask Material Admin - Provided by AppSeed App Generator.