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booleanhunter/ReactJS-AdminLTE
ReactJS version of the original AdminLTE dashboard (EXPERIMENTAL)- https://github.com/almasaeed2010/AdminLTE
A 2015-era React port of the AdminLTE Bootstrap admin dashboard, stopped dead in 2017 when React's ecosystem moved faster than one person could keep up with. The author archived it themselves and explicitly recommends you use Ant Design or MUI instead.
- Honest README — the maintainer tells you upfront it's broken and dead, which saves you from discovering that after you've already built something on it
- The original AdminLTE CSS is solid Bootstrap 3 admin chrome, so the stylesheet assets still work if you're somehow stuck in that era
- Decent historical reference for how early React component libraries were structured before JSX tooling matured
- Archived and unmaintained since 2017 — React has gone through hooks, concurrent mode, and two major ecosystem shifts since then; nothing here works with current React
- Ships pre-built bundles in the repo alongside source, with jQuery and multiple conflicting Bootstrap copies vendored into public/ — the dependency hygiene is what you'd expect from a solo 2015 learning project
- No TypeScript, no tests, class components throughout, Webpack config that predates modern tooling — adopting this means inheriting all of it
- 2,300 stars is entirely a legacy number from when React admin dashboards were rare; the forks are mostly people who cloned it and got stuck, as the issue tracker makes clear