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coreui/coreui-free-vue-admin-template
Free Vue Admin & Dashboard Template Built for AI-Assisted Development
A Vue 3 admin dashboard starter template built on Bootstrap 5 and the CoreUI component library. It gives you a pre-wired SPA shell — sidebar, header, routing, Pinia stores, Chart.js integration — so you can skip the boilerplate and start building actual features. Aimed at teams who want a Bootstrap-flavored admin UI without writing the layout scaffolding from scratch.
The .cursorrules + ARCHITECTURE.md + DEVELOPMENT.md triple is genuinely useful — AI assistants get enough context to generate code that fits the project conventions without constant correction. Vue 3 Composition API with script setup throughout, no Options API legacy mess. Vite build setup is clean and fast. Lazy-loaded routes are already wired in the router, so you don't inherit a giant initial bundle the moment you add ten pages.
It's a thin shell around @coreui/vue — the moment you need something not in that library (a richer data grid, a date picker that isn't PRO-gated, a drag-and-drop interface), you're either paying for CoreUI PRO or bolting on a third library that may fight with Bootstrap's CSS. No real auth integration — the Login/Register pages are static mockups with zero wiring, so every team re-invents that wheel. The dashboard sample data is all hardcoded arrays; there's no fetch pattern or API layer example to follow, which means the first real data-loading feature will be done differently by every developer on the team. 3,400 stars but the free tier is deliberately feature-limited to push you toward the paid product.