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Streamlining Web Development with Pre-Built Templates
When it comes to building a website from scratch, time and resource constraints can be a significant hurdle. Fortunately, there’s a solution: leveraging pre-built templates and libraries. These tools enable developers to simplify their work while still producing high-quality projects. One such template is Materio, a Next.js and React admin template based on Material UI.
What is Materio?
Materio is a feature-rich, highly customizable admin template designed with developers in mind. It’s available in both JavaScript and TypeScript versions and offers a range of features, including:
- Vertical and horizontal menus
- Three niche dashboards
- Different form layouts
- Custom components
- Tables and grids
- Chart libraries
- A fully responsive layout
- An organized folder structure
- Clean, well-documented code
Materio offers both free and premium tiers, with the free version suitable for most applications requiring an admin panel. The premium version provides additional features, including a greater variety of charts, cards, and layouts.
Installing Materio
To get started with Materio, simply select the template from the ThemeSelection website and choose between the free or pro version. Once downloaded, unzip the file and install the project dependencies using your preferred package manager. Then, run the template with the command yarn dev, which will start the Next.js application at localhost:3000.
Customizing Your Next.js App
Materio provides a range of customizable components, including cards, dashboards, form layouts, and tables. To demonstrate, let’s customize the StatisticsCard component to display dynamic GitHub repository stats. We’ll fetch data in the index.js page, create a useEffect Hook, and set the data array to reflect our desired output.
Styling with Materio
Materio uses the MUI component library, allowing you to customize the theme for your components in various ways, including:
- Adding breakpoints for responsiveness
- Overriding components
- Changing the color palette
- Adding shadows
- Changing spacing and typography
Let’s explore how to customize our app’s color palette and typography.
Changing the Color Palette
In the src/@core/theme directory, you’ll find the theme configuration for all components. Here, you can make changes to reflect your desired color palette. We’ll change some colors to reflect a different theme, modifying the main colors, primaryGradient function, and color variants.
Making Changes to Typography
Next, we can customize the project’s typography. In the theme directory, you’ll find the typography directory, which contains fourteen typography variations. You can customize each variation to your style, adding CSS properties and values. Let’s customize the h1 tag and add a new variant.
By leveraging Materio’s features and customization options, you can streamline your web development process and create high-quality projects with ease. With its flexibility and scalability, Materio is an excellent choice for building admin panels and beyond.