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Tabler: Free and open source dashboard HTML/CSS framework

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Re: Tabler: Free and open source dashboard HTML/CSS framework

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post #2

Changing page in the table at the bottom of the demo scrolls back all the way to the top on mobile (Chrome Android).

Because this is just a template and most of the elements point to # and would require linking in the code. This is a plain html/css site that just requires putting life into it using javascript or more css :)

Re: Tabler: Free and open source dashboard HTML/CSS framework

#13
it looks like tabler uses jekyll underneath for docs and demo (which i personally like and am comfortable with). the demo is really nice, ahd while i'm not big on js any more, the js driving tabler looks fairly straightforward and appropriate to my eyes.

the underlying html and css, however, give me pause about how easy it would be to integrate into a larger project. soup is how i'd describe the demo html, and its css uses custom properties (css variables) in a way that, on first glance, seems to make it more verbose without adding power, flexibility, or maintainability (or accessibility, but that seems a really big challenge for data-heavy frontends like this).

i'd probably try this out if i needed a dashboard on a project, but perhaps would want to test drive it on a small/test project to see where the gotchas are first.

Re: Tabler: Free and open source dashboard HTML/CSS framework

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post #4

Why pack so many different things into a single project? If I want to build a dashboard with multiple widgets on the screen, my first step would be to look for a layout tool. Which allows me to handle how the screen is divided into multiple areas and offers an interative interface so I can open, move, resize and close those areas. I would not want a bundle that combines the layout tool with charts and forms and whatn…

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Re: Tabler: Free and open source dashboard HTML/CSS framework

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From what I understand, tabler is just a UI template. So if you want build a dashboard application, you have to build all things, like user management, visualizations etc yourself?

I am a happy user of grafana. All things are there. Tabler looks good and also the responsive UI is really cool, but building all the backend for a dashboard application will be a challenging endeavour. Using grafana or metabase seems fine...

Re: Tabler: Free and open source dashboard HTML/CSS framework

#18

From what I understand, tabler is just a UI template. So if you want build a dashboard application, you have to build all things, like user management, visualizations etc yourself? I am a happy user of grafana. All things are there. Tabler looks good and also the responsive UI is really cool, but building all the backend for a dashboard application will be a challenging endeavour. Using grafana or metabase seems fine…

in the context of a ui kit, "dashboard" is not the same thing as what grafana gives you. it's more of a dashboard as in the ui that you get after you log in to some saas app.

Re: Tabler: Free and open source dashboard HTML/CSS framework

#19
Nowadays design language of your framework should look at least not worse than Material Design 3 or Twitter Bootstrap (just because they are there and you can learn from them).

This project needs some more effort to achieve it, right now it looks like it was designed 5 years ago.

Re: Tabler: Free and open source dashboard HTML/CSS framework

#20

Nowadays design language of your framework should look at least not worse than Material Design 3 or Twitter Bootstrap (just because they are there and you can learn from them). This project needs some more effort to achieve it, right now it looks like it was designed 5 years ago.

What problems do you see? Personally I like it and "not looking like Material Design" is something I'd consider a feature.
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