Getting started

What is inside

Quick start

A Vite project. Install Node.js 20.19+ or 22.12+, then:

npm install
npm run dev        # http://localhost:5173, reloads as you edit
npm run build      # production build in dist/
npm run preview    # serve dist/

The app uses addresses without .html (/admin/orders). On a static host, send unknown paths to index.html: public/_redirects does it on Netlify and Cloudflare Pages; on Nginx use try_files $uri /index.html;.

Folder structure

coraeon/
├── index.html, package.json, vite.config.js
├── public/assets/        js (UI library), img
└── src/
    ├── main.js, App.vue, router.js, directives.js
    ├── stores/ui.js       Pinia store: theme mode, sidebar
    ├── styles/            ui.css, theme.css, template.css, effects.css
    └── pages/             one single-file component per page

Change colours, fonts and corners

Everything visual comes from the tokens in assets/css/theme.css. Change a value and every page follows:

:root {
  --wt-primary: #8d497b;
  --wt-primary-rgb: 141, 73, 123;
  --wt-secondary: #864da8;
  --wt-accent: #1ded54;
  --wt-radius: 0.125rem;
  --wt-font-heading: "Fraunces", system-ui, sans-serif;
}

Dark mode: the moon button switches data-ui-theme on the <html> element and remembers the choice. Set data-ui-theme="dark" in the markup to make dark the default.

Style guide: the style guide page shows every colour with its contrast, the type, corners, components and the pictures of this template.

Design tokens: design-tokens/tokens.json has the same colours (light and dark), fonts, corners, spacing and shadows in the W3C Design Tokens format - import it into Figma with the Tokens Studio plugin, or build tokens for other platforms with Style Dictionary. design-tokens/tokens.css has them as plain CSS variables for other projects in the same brand.

Charts

The dashboard charts are drawn by Chart.js 4.5.1: tooltips on hover and touch, theme colours that follow the light/dark modes and the colour switch. Each chart is an SVG picture first (so it shows without JavaScript and in print) that carries its numbers in data-wt-chart; assets/js/charts.js turns it into a Chart.js chart. Your own chart:

<div data-wt-chart='{"type":"bar","labels":["Mon","Tue","Wed"],
  "series":[{"name":"Visits","data":[120,180,150],"color":0}]}'></div>

Types: line, bar, doughnut, radar and bubble. A series colour is a theme colour number (0 primary, 1 accent, 2 secondary, 3 info, 4 warning, 5 success, 6 danger) or any CSS colour. Charts added by your own script start with Charts.init(document).

How the Vue version works

Vue 3 single-page app built with Vite: single-file components, vue-router (one route per page) and a Pinia store. Run npm install and npm run dev.

• Every page is a single-file component in src/pages, loaded when it is first shown; src/router.js has one route per page (the old .html addresses still work as aliases).
• A Pinia store (src/stores/ui.js) holds the theme mode and the sidebar state; the chrome hooks are Vue directives (v-theme-toggle, v-sidebar-toggle, v-menu-search, v-example-tab, v-copy-code) in src/directives.js.
• App.vue applies each page's direction and body class after every navigation and starts the template UI library (ui.js, data-ui-* attributes) on the new page.
• Icons: Bootstrap Icons font. Fonts: Google Fonts (Fraunces, Lato).

Menus

The admin menu of this template is Combo menu - Section tabs in the top bar plus a sidebar with the pages of that section. All menus are driven by assets/js/menu.js (no dependencies, the same in every stack):

• Collapsed menu: the collapse button turns the sidebar into icons; every icon shows its name in a tooltip on hover and on keyboard focus, and a menu group opens as a flyout panel.
• Page finder: the search box in the admin top bar (or Ctrl + K) lists every page of the menus; type, use the arrow keys and press Enter.
• Phones: every admin layout opens the full menu as a drawer from the menu button.
• Colour switch: the paint bucket in the admin top bar switches the whole theme to one of 8 colour presets (remembered); a link with ?primaryPreset=teal opens a page in that colour and ?primaryPreset=default brings back the template colours. Presets live in assets/js/theme-init.js.
• Attributes you can reuse: data-wt-tip="Label" (tooltip), data-wt-sub="#id" (menu group), data-wt-flyout="#id" (flyout panel), data-wt-pane="#id" inside data-wt-panes (tabs), data-wt-palette (page finder) and data-wt-toggle="#id" (full-screen menu).

Browser support

Older browsers still show every page; only newer effects (such as @property animations) fall back to static styles.

Credits

• Vue - MIT licence
• Vite, Vue Router, Pinia - MIT licence
• Chart.js - MIT licence
• Bootstrap Icons - MIT licence
• Google Fonts - SIL Open Font License
• All illustrations in assets/img are original SVG artwork made for this template; their subjects are Bootstrap Icons shapes (MIT).