Django Dashboard Shards

Open-Source Django Dashboard styled with a high-quality & free Bootstrap admin dashboard template pack that comes with lots of templates and components. Based on Bootstrap 4, Shards Dashboard Lite is fully responsive and capable of adapting its layout to any viewport size.

Features

• UI-Ready app, SQLite Database, Django Native ORM
• Modular design, clean code-base
• Session-Based Authentication, Forms validation
• Deployment scripts: Docker, Gunicorn / Nginx
• Support via Github and Discord.

Links

• Django Dashboard Shards - product page
• Django Dashboard Shards - LIVE deployment
• Django Dashboard Shards - product documentation

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How to use it

$ # Get the code
$ git clone https://github.com/app-generator/django-dashboard-shards.git
$ cd django-dashboard-shards
$
$ # 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 version
$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt
$
$ # Create tables
$ python manage.py makemigrations
$ python manage.py migrate
$
$ # Start the application (development mode)
$ python manage.py runserver # default port 8000
$
$ # Start the app - custom port 
$ # python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:<your_port>
$
$ # Access the web app in browser: http://127.0.0.1:8000/

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/django-dashboard-shards.git
$ cd django-dashboard-shards

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 core.wsgi:application
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 core.wsgi:application
Serving on http://localhost:8001

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

Credits & Links

Django Admin Dashboards

Index with UI-ready admin dashboards generated by the AppSeed platform in Django Framework. Start fast your next Django project by using functional admin dashboards enhanced with Database, ORM, authentication flow, helpers and deployment scripts.

What is Django

Django is a Python-based free and open-source web framework, which follows the model-template-view architectural pattern. It is maintained by the Django Software Foundation, an independent organization established as a 501 non-profit. Django's primary goal is to ease the creation of complex, database-driven websites.

What is a dashboard

A dashboard is a set of pages that are easy to read and offer information to the user in real-time regarding his business. A dashboard usually consists of graphical representations of the current status and trends within an organization. Having a well-designed dashboard will give you the possibility to act and make informed decisions based on the data that your business provides - definition provided by Creative-Tim - Free Dashboard Templates.

Shards Dashboard Lite

A high-quality & free Bootstrap admin dashboard template pack that comes with lots of templates and components. Based on Bootstrap 4, Shards Dashboard Lite is fully responsive and capable to adapt its layout to any viewport size. - provided by DesignRevision.

Django Dashboard Shards - Provided by AppSeed App Generator.