CoreUI Free Bootstrap Admin Template — Built for AI-Assisted Development

CoreUI Bootstrap Admin Panel Template is not another blend of 3rd parties free components and libraries. It's the only Open Source Bootstrap Admin Dashboard Template built on the enterprise-grade hand-crafted UI Components Library created and backed by professionals.
CoreUI Admin Template helps you build reliable web apps faster than before. CoreUI offers 4 versions: Angular, Bootstrap, React.js, and Vue.js.

Curious why I decided to create CoreUI? Please read this article: Jack of all trades, master of none. Why Bootstrap Admin Templates suck.

Frameworks
CoreUI PRO
CoreUI PRO Bootstrap Admin Templates
Installation
Usage
What's included
AI-Friendly Development
Documentation
Components
Contributing
Versioning
Creators
Community
Support CoreUI Development
Copyright and license

Frameworks

CoreUI is built on top of Bootstrap 5 and supports popular frameworks.

CoreUI PRO

CoreUI PRO Bootstrap Admin Templates

Default Theme	Light Theme

Modern Theme	Bright Theme

CoreUI Icons (522 Free icons) - Premium designed free icon set with marks in SVG, Webfont and raster formats.

CoreUI Icons are beautifully crafted symbols for common actions and items. You can use them in your digital products for web or mobile app. Ready-to-use fonts and stylesheets that work with your favorite frameworks.

Download CoreUI Free Icons

Installation

Clone repo

bash
# clone the repo
$ git clone https://github.com/coreui/coreui-free-bootstrap-admin-template.git my-project

# go into app's directory
$ cd my-project

# install app's dependencies
$ npm install

Usage

bash
# serve with hot reload at localhost:3000.
$ npm start

# build for production with minification
$ npm run build

What's included

Within the download you'll find the following directories and files, logically grouping common assets and providing both compiled and minified variations. You'll see something like this:

free-bootstrap-admin-template/
├── build/
├── src/
│   ├── assets/
│   │   ├── brand/
│   │   ├── favicon/
│   │   └── img/
│   ├── js/
│   ├── pug/
│   │   ├── _layout/
│   │   ├── _mixins/
│   │   ├── _partials/
│   │   └── views/
│   │       ├── authentication/
│   │       ├── components/
│   │       ├── error-pages/
│   │       ├── forms/
│   │       ├── icons/
│   │       ├── index.pug
│   │       └── ...
│   ├── scss/
│   └── views/
│       ├── authentication/
│       ├── components/
│       ├── error-pages/
│       ├── forms/
│       ├── icons/
│       ├── index.html
│       └── ...
└── package.json

AI-Friendly Development

This template is optimized for AI-assisted development, making it easier to work with AI coding assistants like Cursor, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot.

What's Included

.cursorrules - Comprehensive AI context file with project conventions, patterns, and guidelines
ARCHITECTURE.md - Detailed technical documentation covering the project structure, build pipeline, and component organization
DEVELOPMENT.md - Practical developer guide with examples and best practices
JSDoc Comments - All JavaScript modules include detailed documentation with @param and @returns annotations

Benefits

🤖 Smart Code Generation - AI understands your project uses CoreUI Bootstrap (not Tailwind CSS)
📚 Better Context Awareness - AI knows the project structure, conventions, and patterns
✨ Consistent Code Style - AI generates code following ESLint/Stylelint rules automatically
🚀 Faster Development - Less time explaining, more time building
💡 Intelligent Suggestions - AI provides relevant component examples from CoreUI documentation

Quick Start with AI

Simply open the project in your AI-powered IDE (Cursor, VS Code with Copilot, etc.) and the AI will automatically understand:

Project architecture and file organization
CoreUI Bootstrap component usage
Pug templating patterns
Sass/SCSS styling conventions
JavaScript module patterns

Documentation

The documentation for the CoreUI Free Bootstrap Admin Template is hosted at our website CoreUI

Components

CoreUI Bootstrap Admin Templates are built on top of CoreUI and CoreUI PRO UI components libraries, including all of these components.

Contributing

Please read through our contributing guidelines. Included are directions for opening issues, coding standards, and notes on development.

Editor preferences are available in the editor config for easy use in common text editors. Read more and download plugins at http://editorconfig.org.

Versioning

For transparency into our release cycle and in striving to maintain backward compatibility,CoreUI Free Admin Template is maintained under the Semantic Versioning guidelines.

See the Releases section of our project for changelogs for each release version.

Creators

Łukasz Holeczek

Andrzej Kopański

https://github.com/xidedix

CoreUI Team

Community

Get updates on CoreUI's development and chat with the project maintainers and community members.

Follow @core_ui on Twitter.
Read and subscribe to CoreUI Blog.

Support CoreUI Development

CoreUI is an MIT-licensed open source project and is completely free to use. However, the amount of effort needed to maintain and develop new features for the project is not sustainable without proper financial backing. You can support development by buying the CoreUI PRO or by becoming a sponsor via Open Collective.