Sliced - Django is a powerful admin dashboard template built with Tailwind CSS. Sliced comes with dozens of functional designs to help you get started quickly. With a wide range of beautiful styles and a full-screen layout, it’s a perfect fit for admin dashboards, eCommerce, CRM, CMS, LMS panels and etc. If you are looking to take your app to the next level – Sliced is the way to go!

This guide will walk you through the installation process and prerequisites to get your admin dashboard up and running smoothly.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure you have the following prerequisites installed on your system.

Task	Instructions
Node.js	Make sure to have the Node.js 20 installed & running in your computer. If you already have installed Node.js on your computer, you can skip this step.
Git	Make sure to have Git installed & running in your computer. If you already have installed composer on your computer, you can skip this step.
Python 3.x	Install Python on your machine. You can download it from Microsoft Store. python.org
pip (lastest version recomended)	Check pip version by running the following command in your terminal: py -m pip --version If the version is less than 20.0.2 or not installed, run the following command to upgrade pip: py -m pip install --upgrade pip

Installation Steps

Follow these simple steps to install and set up Sliced Admin Template:

• Step 1: Unzip
  Unzip The Downloaded Folder and open it in vscode or any other code editor you use.

  
  

• Step 2: Create Virtualenv by running following command:

  py -m venv virtualenv_name  

• Step 3: Activate Virtualenv by running following command:

  virtualenv_name\Scripts\activate.bat  

• Step 4: Install dganjo by running following command:

  pip install django  

• Step 5: This would install all of the framework's required dependencies in the virtualenv_name.

  pip install django-allauth
  pip install django-crispy-forms
  pip install django-environ
  pip install crispy-tailwind  

• Step 6: create .env file in Admin/slice directory and intialize variables as mentioned bellow:.

  # Social auth google key and secrect key
  SOCIAL_AUTH_GOOGLE_OAUTH2_CLIENT_ID= <your_google_client_id>
  SOCIAL_AUTH_GOOGLE_OAUTH2_SECRET= <your_google_client_secret>
  
  SOCIAL_AUTH_GITHUB_CLIENT_ID= <your_github_client_id>
  SOCIAL_AUTH_GITHUB_SECRET= <your_github_client_secret>
  
  EMAIL_HOST= <your_smtp_provider_host> //example:sandbox.smtp.mailtrap.io
  EMAIL_PORT= <your_smtp_provider_supporting_port>
  EMAIL_HOST_USER= <your_user_account> or <your_user_mail> as provider may require
  EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD= <your_user_password> 
    

• Step 7: Navigate to the Admin/ in the terminal and run the Migrations,

  py manage.py makemigrations
  py manage.py migrate 

• Step 8: Install Node.js Dependencies

  npm run dev 

• Step 9: Run the project locally, The development server is accessible at http://127.0.0.1:8000.

  py manage.py runserver