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Looks neat!

I also think it looks neat, but I'm struggling to figure out what it is. Bootstrap, as in the CSS framework[0]? Latest release appears to be 4, what does 5 mean? Admin? Admin of what, a website? Some other platform? Is this a website template, with some built-in asset management mechanic like Wordpress?

> Volt is a free and open source Bootstrap powered admin dashboard with components, pages and plugin that you can use to create an awesome admin interface.

Components? As in, web components[1]? Or is it terminology from some other web framework, maybe React or maybe some language feature in e.g. TypeScript?

I suppose my question would be, what problem should I be having to look for a "Bootstrap 5 Admin Dashboard"?

[0]: https://getbootstrap.com/ [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components

> Latest release appears to be 4, what does 5 mean?

There is an alpha version of Bootstrap 5 effectively dropping jQuery and IE 10/11 as a dependency (https://v5.getbootstrap.com/)

> Admin? Admin of what, a website? Some other platform?

Maybe we can work on the title, it's supposed to be a web interface for managing stuff like users, messages, statistics and so on. Think of Heroku Dashboard. Or Cloudflare dashboard. Stuff like that. Yes, it's a website template.

> Is this a website template, with some built-in asset management mechanic like Wordpress?

It's just plain old HTML, CSS and Javascript but with Sass and Gulp as some extra features for higher customizability and Gulp mostly for the compilation of the Sass file and some other commands like minifying the files.

> Components? As in, web components[1]? Or is it terminology from some other web framework, maybe React or maybe some language feature in e.g. TypeScript?

Components meaning buttons, form elements, alert elements and so on. So they are HTML + CSS + Javascript web interface components.

Do you think we should drop the "admin" part from the title then? Thanks for your input though!

Thanks for this. Personally, I would have wanted this information in the intro of the project. But then again, odds are I'm not your target audience and that your target audience would find it obivous. It's one data point at least. :)

Admin themes are common in theme marketplaces. As a convention, they usually always list out all the package UI elements (buttons, spinners, etc) as "components", which is a bit different than in the framework sense.

https://wrapbootstrap.com/category/templates/admin-templates

https://themeforest.net/category/site-templates/admin-templa...

Note the "component" terminology has been used in Bootstrap for a long time: https://getbootstrap.com/2.3.2/components.html

Or newcomers like us :)

https://themesberg.com/templates/bootstrap/admin-dashboard

Thanks, that helps put things in context.

Thank you! Appreciate it.

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