Voler is a Bootstrap 5 admin dashboard template, and its author has moved on

A template you open directly from disk

Voler is described as the first Bootstrap 5 admin dashboard template, and the README describes it as an admin dashboard template that can help you develop faster, made with Bootstrap 5 Alpha and with no jQuery dependency. The distribution is deliberately static, and the installation instructions say so in two steps. You clone the repository.

git clone https://github.com/zuramai/voler

Then you open dist/index.html in a browser. There is no install command, no package to fetch, and no server to start, which is the appeal for someone who wants to look at an admin interface rather than set one up. The repository layout explains where that comes from. There is a src/ directory holding the source templates, a dist/ directory holding the built output, a webpack.mix.js file driving the build, a sidebar-items.json file that presumably defines the navigation, and the usual .prettierrc and .prettierignore. The project is MIT licensed with the copyright held by Voler, and the author is Ahmad Saugi, known as @zuramai on GitHub.

Nunjucks templates and Sass, with a dist folder you should not edit

The contribution notes carry the most useful technical detail in the whole README, and they are two rules. If you want to make some changes in the CSS style, don't edit the .css file, use the SCSS file instead. And since the project uses Nunjucks, if you want to make changes to the HTML structure, make sure you change the source file, the Nunjucks one, located in src. That is a static site generator setup, and it is why the built dist/ folder and the src/ folder can disagree if you only touch one of them. The build tooling is Laravel Mix, with laravel-mix-nunjucks for the templating, laravel-mix-purgecss to strip unused CSS, sass and sass-loader for the stylesheets, browser-sync with its webpack plugin for a live reload server, resolve-url-loader for asset paths, and webpack-cli underneath. The frontend dependencies are a long list of small libraries that tell you what the dashboard actually contains: ApexCharts and Chart.js for charts, Quill for a rich text editor, Dragula for drag and drop, Feather Icons for icons, simple-datatables for tables, Choices.js for form selects, Toastify for notifications, Perfect Scrollbar for scroll containers, dayjs for dates, and Popper alongside @popperjs/core for dropdowns and popovers.

The npm scripts and what they actually run

The package manifest shows a project that is mostly a build pipeline with no test suite. The test script is a placeholder that echoes an error and exits with status 1, so npm test is not a way to check anything here. The useful scripts are the build ones. The dev script runs the development target, which is mix, and the watch script runs mix watch, and the hot script runs mix watch with the hot flag, all of which are Laravel Mix invocations. The prod script runs the production target, which is mix with the production flag, and the production script is the same thing under a clearer name. So the workflow is npm run dev for a one-off build with a development environment, npm run watch to rebuild on change, and npm run prod for the production build. Browser-sync is wired in as a development server, which is what makes the watch mode useful, and the packages are declared under devDependencies with the runtime libraries in dependencies, so the build toolchain and the shipped assets are separated as you would expect.

What the documentation says about the project's status

The end of the README contains a line that changes how you should evaluate the whole repository. It says the repository is currently unavailable, and then asks you to check out a new template, linking to a different repository. Earlier in the same file, the author says he has created another Bootstrap 5 dashboard template and links to that repository too. The two statements are hard to reconcile, and what is unambiguous is the direction of travel: the author has moved to a successor project and is telling readers to use it. The last push to this repository was on 2026-04-15, and the only listed release is v1.0.0 from 2022-04-27, so this is a template that reached a first version years ago and has not been versioned since. The published demo at zuramai.github.io/voler/ remains reachable, which tells you the built output is still served, and the README mentions a sponsor, a local development service, and the author's own other work. The honest summary is that Voler is a maintained-once, self-contained Bootstrap 5 admin template whose author has publicly superseded it.

What the feature list does and does not tell you

The features section of the README is thin, and reading it closely is informative. The template is responsive, it is made with Bootstrap 5 Beta along with CSS and so on, it has many features, it is suitable for website projects, and there are many other features that are not mentioned one by one. That is a description of a template rather than an inventory, and it means the practical details have to be read out of the code and the screenshot instead. What can be inferred from the dependency list is more specific. A charting library and two of them suggests dashboards with data visualisation rather than a bare form layout. Quill in the dependencies means a rich text editor is present. Dragula means drag and drop reordering is built in, and simple-datatables means the tables are sortable and searchable. Choices.js and Toastify point at form controls and notifications, and Perfect Scrollbar suggests custom scroll areas. The README also mentions that the template has a lot of features in it and is described as having an attractive beauty, which is marketing language rather than a specification, so the file listing is the better source of truth about what is in the box.

How it compares to a framework-based admin approach

The alternative worth naming is not another template but a different approach to the same problem, which is to build the admin interface on a component framework instead of on static HTML. The difference in approach is concrete. Voler gives you a set of pages that already look finished, with the markup written once and no runtime at all, which is why opening dist/index.html works. A framework approach gives you components that respond to your data, which is what you need when the admin screen is a view onto a live database rather than a set of static pages. For a landing page, a documentation site, a prototype or a handover deliverable, the static template is the faster path. For a product's admin panel, you will end up rewriting the pages anyway, because a static dashboard has no idea how to fetch a row. The middle path is to use the visual design of a template while wiring it to a real framework, and Voler's Nunjucks sources and SCSS are structured well enough to lift pieces from, as long as you work in src/ rather than dist/.

Where Voler is the wrong choice

The limits are practical rather than philosophical. The first is the status. The README says the repository is currently unavailable, and the last push was on 2026-04-15, so a new project inherits a codebase that its author has pointed away from. The second is the build dependency. The compiled dist/ folder is convenient but the source of truth is a Nunjucks and Sass pipeline with Laravel Mix, and Laravel Mix 6 with webpack-cli 4 is a stack that has moved on, so a project on a current toolchain will spend time either pinning old versions or porting the build. The third is that there is no test suite, and the package manifest says so by making the test script fail on purpose, so nothing in the repository will tell you whether a change broke a page. The fourth is the Bootstrap version, where the README prose says Bootstrap 5 Alpha while the manifest depends on 5.2.0, and a template built against an alpha can carry markup that later changed, which is exactly the kind of breakage that shows up as a misaligned dropdown rather than an error. And the fifth is the theme itself: an admin dashboard is a large part of a product's perceived quality, and a template that every other project on the internet also uses reads as a template rather than as your product.

Editorial conclusion

Adopt Voler if you want a static admin interface you can open straight from disk, with no build step in front of it, and you are comfortable editing Nunjucks templates in src/ rather than the compiled output. Do not adopt it for a new project, because the README states the repository is currently unavailable and steers you to a successor template, and the last push to the repository was on 2026-04-15. Verify two things before you build on it: that the compiled dist/ folder actually matches the src/ templates you intend to change, since the contribution notes tell you to edit the SCSS and Nunjucks sources and not the built CSS or HTML, and that the Bootstrap version in package.json, which is 5.2.0, is compatible with the components you plan to use. The practical first step is to clone the repository and open dist/index.html in a browser to see the dashboard before you decide whether to invest in the source tree.

Frequently asked questions

Official sources

1. License: MIT
2. Project website
3. README
4. Releases
5. zuramai/voler on GitHub