Vue Admin Better is a free, MIT-licensed Vue admin dashboard template built on Vue 2.x + Element UI, with a Vue 3.x + Element Plus sibling project and an Arco Design variant, that ships 40+ ready-made single pages and RBAC + JWT permission control for production admin systems.
What is Vue Admin Better?
Vue Admin Better is an open-source admin dashboard template for Vue.js, published by zxwk1998 on GitHub. It provides a complete frontend solution—auth pages, dashboards, tables, forms, and more—that takes configuration and permission settings as input and outputs a deployable admin single-page application. The template runs on Vue 2.x with Element UI in this repository, while the companion vue3-admin-better repo uses Vue 3.x + Element Plus, and vue-admin-arco covers Vue 3.x + Arco Design.
What makes Vue Admin Better stand out?
- 40+ high-quality single pages — The template includes a wide set of screens for admin systems: login, dashboards, tables, forms, charts, and error pages.
- RBAC + JWT permission control — Supports two route-permission modes: front-end controlled (intelligence) and back-end controlled (all) with dynamic route rendering from the server.
- Cross-platform layout — Responsive design works on PC, tablet, and mobile, demonstrated in the community demos.
- Performance-boosting tooling — The Vue 2 branch runs through Rspack with claimed 10-15x faster dev server and 20-30x faster builds; the Vue 3 branch uses Vite 7 in the Arco variant.
- Mock auto-generation — Mock data can be generated and exported automatically for faster development.
- Global configuration — Over 50 fine-grained configuration options for layout, theme, and behavior.
- Axios wrapper — The network layer supports multiple data sources, multiple success status codes, and multiple parameter-passing styles.
- Security and build extras — Login supports RSA encryption, error logs can be captured (errorlog), and builds can produce a 7Z compressed package. Multi-theme and multi-layout switching are built in.
Who should use Vue Admin Better?
- Vue developers building admin systems — Teams or solo developers with at least one year of Vue experience who want a pre-built permission model and page set instead of starting from scratch.
- Developers using Element UI / Element Plus — The template is built around these component libraries, so teams already standardizing on Element can integrate quickly.
- Learners wanting advanced Vue patterns — The project documents RBAC route control, Axios encapsulation, and Rspack/Vite build setups, making it a reference for studying production admin architecture.
What can you do with Vue Admin Better?
- Product teams: Launch an internal management console with login, dashboards, and CRUD pages in a single day by cloning the repo and running the dev server.
- System integrators: Adapt the RBAC permission modes to match an existing backend by switching between front-end intelligence mode and back-end route rendering.
- Frontend learners: Walk through the source to see how JWT auth, Axios request wrapper, and route guards are implemented in a real Vue project.
How does Vue Admin Better work?
After cloning the repository, run pnpm i with the Tencent mirror registry and npm run serve:rspack for the Vue 2 branch, or npm run dev for the Vue 3 branches. The dev server starts, and you configure routes and permission rules in the config files; the template renders the admin interface and enforces auth at runtime.
Pricing
The open-source community edition is free for commercial use under the MIT license, with the only requirement being to retain the license declaration. The author also offers paid commercial editions: Admin Pro (Vue 2 + Element UI), Admin Plus (Vue 3 + Element Plus), and Shop Vite (Vue 3 + Vite + Element Plus), each with private demos linked from the repo.
FAQ
Is Vue Admin Better free?
Yes. The community edition is MIT-licensed and free for commercial use, as long as you keep the license notice. Paid versions add extra features and are distributed as commercial products.
What version of Vue does it use?
The main repository uses Vue 2.x with Element UI. For Vue 3, switch to the vue3-admin-better repository, which uses Element Plus, or the vue-admin-arco repository, which uses Arco Design.
Does it support mobile?
Yes. The responsive layout supports PC, tablet, and mobile devices, and the live demos work on all three form factors.
What build tools are used?
The Vue 2 branch runs on Rspack, with reported build times under 5 seconds. The Vue 3 and Arco variants use Vite (Vite 7 for the Arco repo). ESLint is enforced with the plugin:vue/recommended ruleset.
