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creativetimofficial/notus-nextjs
Notus NextJS: Free Tailwind CSS UI Kit and Admin
A Tailwind CSS + Next.js admin dashboard starter from Creative Tim, shipping ~120 pre-built UI components across dashboard, auth, landing, and profile pages. It's a copy-paste starting point for someone who needs a decent-looking admin shell without designing from scratch. Last meaningful commit is from 2024 and it targets the Next.js pages router.
The component count is real — cards, charts (Chart.js wrapped), dropdowns, modals, navbars, and sidebar are all there and wired up, not just stubs. The Tailwind config and CSS pipeline are properly set up so you can extend without fighting the build. MIT license with no strings attached, unlike some Creative Tim products. The pages-router structure is straightforward enough that you can gut and rebuild sections without understanding the whole thing first.
Still on the pages router with no signs of an App Router migration — if you're starting a new Next.js project in 2025, this puts you immediately on the wrong path. The chart components (CardBarChart, CardLineChart) have hardcoded dummy data baked into the component rather than accepting props, so they require surgery before they're actually usable. No TypeScript, no form validation, no auth integration — the login and register pages are pure HTML shells that do nothing. Dependency versions are pinned to 2021-era packages; Chart.js, Popper.js, and Next.js itself are all well behind current, and upgrading Tailwind from v2 to v3/v4 will require reworking the build pipeline.