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The best vue-admin-template alternatives

6 tools that do a similar job to vue-admin-template, 6 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.

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vue-admin-template

A minimal Vue admin dashboard starter with Element UI, axios, and lint setup.

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    vue-element-admin

    Open source · MIT · ★ 90.1k

    Front-end starter template for admin dashboards, built on Vue and Element UI.

    Best for: Developers building internal admin dashboards in Vue; Teams that want a Element UI based layout with login and permissions already sketched out

    Full review vue-admin-template vs vue-element-admin
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    SoybeanAdmin

    Open source · MIT · ★ 15.2k

    A Vue 3 admin dashboard template with TypeScript, Vite, Pinia, Naive UI and UnoCSS.

    Best for: Developers starting a new internal admin or back-office web app with Vue 3; Teams that want TypeScript, linting and a monorepo structure already configured

    Full review vue-admin-template vs SoybeanAdmin
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    Vuex

    Open source · MIT · ★ 28.3k

    Centralized state store for Vue.js apps, now superseded by Pinia as the official default.

    Best for: Teams maintaining an existing Vue app that already uses Vuex; Developers migrating an existing Vuex codebase gradually toward Pinia

    Full review vue-admin-template vs Vuex
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    Pinia

    Open source · MIT · ★ 14.8k

    A lightweight, type-safe state store for Vue apps, built on the Composition API.

    Best for: Vue 3 developers who need shared state across several components; Teams using TypeScript who want store types inferred automatically

    Full review
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    Element

    Open source · MIT · ★ 54k

    A Vue 2 component library of ready-made UI pieces for building web apps.

    Best for: Developers maintaining an existing Vue 2.x web application; Teams building internal admin or back-office interfaces with Vue 2

    Full review
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    Element Plus

    Open source · MIT · ★ 27.8k

    A Vue 3 component library of ready-made UI pieces, written in TypeScript.

    Best for: Developers building admin panels or business web apps with Vue 3; Teams migrating from Element UI to Vue 3

    Full review

How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to vue-admin-template. We don't take payment for placement.