Soft Dashboard PRO Django

Django starter styled with Soft Dashboard PRO, a premium Bootstrap 5 KIT from Creative-Tim. The product is designed to deliver the best possible user experience with highly customizable feature-rich pages.

NOTE: This product requires a License in order to access the theme. During the purchase, a GitHub Access TOKEN is provided.

👉 Soft UI Dashboard PRO Django - Product Page
👉 Soft UI Dashboard PRO Django - LIVE Demo
🚀 Support via Email & Discord

Features:

✅ Up-to-date Dependencies
✅ Design: Django Theme Soft - 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
- Django Soft PRO - Go LIVE - video presentation

Manual Build

👉 Download the code

$ git clone https://github.com/app-generator/django-soft-ui-dashboard-pro.git
$ cd django-soft-ui-dashboard-pro

Export GITHUB_TOKEN in the environment. The value is provided by AppSeed during purchase.

This is required because the project has a private REPO dependency: github.com/app-generator/priv-django-admin-soft-pro

$ export GITHUB_TOKEN='TOKEN_HERE'  # for Linux, Mac
$ set GITHUB_TOKEN='TOKEN_HERE'     # Windows CMD
$ $env:GITHUB_TOKEN = 'TOKEN_HERE'  # Windows powerShell

👉 Install modules via VENV.

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

👉 Edit the .env using the template .env.sample.

# True for development, False for production
DEBUG=True

👉 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 in the controller, 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:

< LIBRARY_ROOT >                      # This exists in ENV: LIB/admin_soft_pro
   |
   |-- templates/                     # Root Templates Folder 
   |    |          
   |    |-- accounts/       
   |    |    |-- signin/basic.html    # Sign IN Page
   |    |    |-- signup/basic.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-fullscreen.html # Masterpage for Auth Pages
   |    |
   |    |-- pages/       
   |         |-- widgets.html         # Widgets page
   |         |-- messages.html        # Messaging APP 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_soft_pro/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.

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.

Screenshots

Django Admin Soft PRO - Automotive Page

Django Admin Soft PRO - Calendar Page

Soft Dashboard PRO Django - Modern Admin Interface provided by AppSeed