Black Dashboard Flask

Open-source Flask Dashboard crafted on top of a modern Bootstrap design. Designed for those who like bold elements and beautiful websites, Black Dashboard is ready to help you create stunning websites and web apps. Black Dashboard is built with over 50 frontend individual elements, like buttons, inputs, navbars, nav tabs, cards, or alerts, giving you the freedom of choosing and combining.

👉 Black Dashboard Flask - product page
👉 Black Dashboard Flask - LIVE Demo

✅ Features

Up-to-date dependencies
Black Dashboard, Persistent Dark-Mode
DB Tools: SQLAlchemy ORM, Flask-Migrate (schema migrations)
Persistence: SQLite (dev), MySql (prod)
Authentication: Session Based, OAuth via Github
Deployment: Docker, Page Compression (Flask-Minify)

✅ Start in `Docker`

👉 Step 1 - Download the code from the GH repository (using GIT)

$ git clone https://github.com/app-generator/flask-black-dashboard.git
$ cd flask-black-dashboard

👉 Step 2 - Start the APP in Docker

$ docker-compose up --build

Visit http://localhost:5085 in your browser. The app should be up & running.

✅ Create/Edit `.env` file

The meaning of each variable can be found below:

DEBUG: if True the app runs in develoment mode
- For production value False should be used
ASSETS_ROOT: used in assets management
- default value: /static/assets
OAuth via Github
- GITHUB_ID=<GITHUB_ID_HERE>
- GITHUB_SECRET=<GITHUB_SECRET_HERE>

✅ Manual Build

Download the code

$ git clone https://github.com/app-generator/flask-black-dashboard.git
$ cd flask-black-dashboard

👉 Set Up for `Unix`, `MacOS`

Install modules via VENV

$ virtualenv env
$ source env/bin/activate
$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Set Up Flask Environment

$ export FLASK_APP=run.py
$ export FLASK_ENV=development

Start the app

$ flask run
// OR
$ flask run --cert=adhoc # For HTTPS server

At this point, the app runs at http://127.0.0.1:5000/.

👉 Set Up for `Windows`

Install modules via VENV (windows)

$ virtualenv env
$ .\env\Scripts\activate
$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Set Up Flask Environment

$ # CMD 
$ set FLASK_APP=run.py
$ set FLASK_ENV=development
$
$ # Powershell
$ $env:FLASK_APP = ".\run.py"
$ $env:FLASK_ENV = "development"

Start the app

$ flask run
// OR
$ flask run --cert=adhoc # For HTTPS server

At this point, the app runs at http://127.0.0.1:5000/.

✅ Recompile SCSS

The SCSS/CSS files used to style the Ui are saved in the apps/static/assets directory. In order to update the Ui colors (primary, secondary) this procedure needs to be followed.

$ yarn # install modules
$ # # edit variables 
$ vi apps/static/assets/scss/black-dashboard/custom/_variables.scss 
$ gulp # SCSS to CSS translation

The _variables.scss content defines the primary and secondary colors:

$default:       #344675 !default; // EDIT for customization
$primary:       #e14eca !default; // EDIT for customization
$secondary:     #f4f5f7 !default; // EDIT for customization
$success:       #00f2c3 !default; // EDIT for customization
$info:          #1d8cf8 !default; // EDIT for customization
$warning:       #ff8d72 !default; // EDIT for customization
$danger:        #fd5d93 !default; // EDIT for customization
$black:         #222a42 !default; // EDIT for customization

✅ Codebase

The project is coded using blueprints, app factory pattern, dual configuration profile (development and production) and an intuitive structure presented bellow:

< PROJECT ROOT >
   |
   |-- apps/
   |    |
   |    |-- home/                           # A simple app that serve HTML files
   |    |    |-- routes.py                  # Define app routes
   |    |
   |    |-- authentication/                 # Handles auth routes (login and register)
   |    |    |-- routes.py                  # Define authentication routes  
   |    |    |-- models.py                  # Defines models  
   |    |    |-- forms.py                   # Define auth forms (login and register) 
   |    |
   |    |-- static/
   |    |    |-- <css, JS, images>          # CSS files, Javascripts files
   |    |
   |    |-- templates/                      # Templates used to render pages
   |    |    |-- includes/                  # HTML chunks and components
   |    |    |    |-- navigation.html       # Top menu component
   |    |    |    |-- sidebar.html          # Sidebar component
   |    |    |    |-- footer.html           # App Footer
   |    |    |    |-- scripts.html          # Scripts common to all pages
   |    |    |
   |    |    |-- layouts/                   # Master pages
   |    |    |    |-- base-fullscreen.html  # Used by Authentication pages
   |    |    |    |-- base.html             # Used by common pages
   |    |    |
   |    |    |-- accounts/                  # Authentication pages
   |    |    |    |-- login.html            # Login page
   |    |    |    |-- register.html         # Register page
   |    |    |
   |    |    |-- home/                      # UI Kit Pages
   |    |         |-- index.html            # Index page
   |    |         |-- 404-page.html         # 404 page
   |    |         |-- *.html                # All other pages
   |    |    
   |  config.py                             # Set up the app
   |    __init__.py                         # Initialize the app
   |
   |-- requirements.txt                     # App Dependencies
   |
   |-- .env                                 # Inject Configuration via Environment
   |-- run.py                               # Start the app - WSGI gateway
   |
   |-- ************************************************************************