Concept

Concept is a free, open-source admin dashboard template built on Bootstrap 5.3.8 and Vite 7.3, designed to give developers a jQuery-free foundation for admin panels, analytics dashboards, and management systems.

What is Concept?

Concept is an HTML admin dashboard template that ships with four ready-to-use dashboard pages — E-commerce, Finance, Sales, and Influencer — plus UI components, application pages, and a blank starter. It runs on a Vite 7.3 build pipeline with Handlebars partials and SCSS, and is released by Colorlib as an MIT-licensed open-source project on GitHub.

Key Features

• Four dashboard variants — E-commerce, Finance, Sales, and Influencer dashboards, each with its own revenue cards, charts, and page-specific data views.
• Bootstrap 5.3.8 core — Built on the latest Bootstrap with SCSS variables, mixins, and BEM-style naming for consistent customization.
• Vite 7.3 tooling — Development server with fast HMR, CSS code-splitting, linting with ESLint 10, and formatting with Prettier.
• jQuery-free JavaScript — ES6 modules and vanilla JS; no jQuery dependency, with tree-shaking for smaller bundles.
• Chart.js and DataTables — Line, bar, pie, and doughnut charts via Chart.js 4.5.1, and sortable/filterable tables via DataTables 2.3.7 with Bootstrap 5 styling.
• FullCalendar integration — A full-featured calendar page powered by @fullcalendar/core 6.1.20.
• Application pages — User management list with filters and bulk actions, timeline activity feed, settings page with multiple sections, 404 error page, and blank page template.
• Static-hosting ready — Includes a _redirects file for Netlify, and the production build outputs to dist/ for Vercel, GitHub Pages, or any static server.

Who is it for?

• Web developers and frontend engineers — use Concept as a starting point for custom admin panels, leveraging the Vite build setup and modular JS components.
• Agencies and freelancers — deliver client dashboards quickly by restyling SCSS variables and swapping the included Handlebars partials.
• Startup teams building internal tools — spin up analytics, user-management, and calendar views without building UI from scratch.
• Students and learners — study a real-world Bootstrap 5 + Vite project structure with ES6 modules and code-splitting.

What can you do with Concept?

• E-commerce teams: monitor revenue, orders, and product performance using the e-commerce dashboard's revenue cards and charts, then extend it with your own data.
• Finance analysts: present financial metrics and portfolio overviews using the finance dashboard's transaction charts and metrics layout.
• Sales operations: track team performance and sales funnels using the sales dashboard's analytics views.
• Product managers: schedule and manage events using the FullCalendar page integrated with @fullcalendar/core.

How does Concept work?

Concept uses a standard Vite workflow. Clone the repository, run npm install, then npm run dev to start the development server. For production, npm run build creates a static dist/ folder that you can deploy to Netlify, Vercel, GitHub Pages, or any static file server; the included _redirects file handles client-side routing for static hosting.

FAQ

Is Concept free?

Concept is free and open-source under the MIT License. You can clone the GitHub repository, use it in personal or commercial projects, and modify the source without paying a licensing fee.

Does Concept require jQuery?

No. Concept is a jQuery-free template. All interactions are written in vanilla JavaScript using ES6 modules, which also enables tree-shaking and smaller production bundles.

What are the prerequisites for running Concept?

You need Node.js 16.x or higher and npm 8.x or higher. After installing dependencies with npm install, run npm run dev for development or npm run build to generate a production build in the dist/ folder.

Can Concept be deployed to any static host?

Yes. The production build outputs static files to dist/, and the project includes a _redirects file for Netlify. It also works on Vercel, GitHub Pages, AWS S3 with CloudFront, and traditional web servers.