Building admin dashboards developers actually want to use

DashboardPack is the premium dashboard template studio from the team behind AdminLTE (45,000+ GitHub stars), Gentelella (21,000+ GitHub stars), and Colorlib — one of the largest template resources on the web since 2013.

We launched DashboardPack in 2019 with a simple thesis: developers shouldn’t have to choose between beautiful design and production-ready code. Every template we ship includes real authentication, full CRUD operations, and a modern tech stack you’d actually use in production.

Our story

It started with Colorlib in 2013 — a blog sharing free website templates and WordPress themes. Within a few years, Colorlib grew into one of the most visited template resources on the internet, helping millions of developers and designers launch projects faster.

In 2016, we released AdminLTE, an open-source admin dashboard template built with Bootstrap. It quickly became one of the most-starred admin projects on GitHub, with over 45,000 stars and thousands of forks. Around the same time, Gentelella joined the family — another open-source dashboard that earned 21,000+ stars.

By 2019, developers were asking for more: real backend integrations, TypeScript support, modern frameworks, dark mode, and production-grade code quality. That’s when DashboardPack was born — a premium line of admin dashboards built with the frameworks developers actually use today.

What we build today

Our current generation of templates runs on Next.js 16 with React 19, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS v4, and shadcn/ui components. We also offer Laravel variants with Inertia.js and full server-side authentication.

Every DashboardPack template ships with:

• Full CRUD operations — not just UI mockups, but working create/read/update/delete flows
• Real authentication — Laravel Fortify or NextAuth, not placeholder login screens
• 50+ pages — dashboards, analytics, apps (chat, mail, kanban, calendar), settings, and more
• Dark mode — system-aware theme switching built into every template
• Responsive design — tested across mobile, tablet, and desktop breakpoints

The team

DashboardPack is led by Aigars Silkalns, founder of Colorlib and the driving force behind AdminLTE. With over a decade of experience in web design, template development, and developer tooling, Aigars brings a product-first philosophy: ship fewer templates, but make each one production-ready.

We’re a small, focused team that prioritizes code quality and developer experience over feature checklists. Every template goes through manual design review, accessibility testing, and real-world deployment before it ships.

Our products