CoreUI
An advanced UI library based on Bootstrap 5 – CoreUI extends Bootstrap with PRO components, and ready-to-use admin templates for React, Angular, Vue, and more.
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CoreUI vs Bootstrap
CoreUI is fully compatible with Bootstrap, but it’s more than just a theme or UI extension — it’s a professionally developed and maintained system that addresses many of the limitations developers face with Bootstrap alone.
Key differences between CoreUI and Bootstrap:
- ✅ Framework-native versions – CoreUI offers official libraries for React.js, Vue.js, and Angular, while Bootstrap depends on third-party community plugins for framework integration.
- 👨💻 Full-time maintained project – CoreUI is not a community-only initiative. It’s developed by a dedicated, full-time team focused on long-term evolution and support.
- 📦 More built-in components – CoreUI includes many components not present in Bootstrap by default, such as range sliders, multi-selects, and step-based form wizards.
- 🛠️ Sass Modules support today – CoreUI already supports Sass Modules out of the box, a feature that Bootstrap plans to introduce in version 6.
- 🌍 Modern RTL/LTR support – CoreUI uses CSS logical properties to provide seamless RTL and LTR layout support for multilingual and internationalized apps.
- 🔒 Long-Term Support (LTS) – While Bootstrap 3 & 4 LTS is now a paid service via HeroDevs, CoreUI continues to offer long-term support without additional cost.
Whether you're starting a new project or migrating from Bootstrap, CoreUI gives you a powerful upgrade path with more features, framework bindings, and peace of mind for long-term maintainability.
Table of contents
Quick start
Several quick start options are available:
- Download the latest release
- Clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/coreui/coreui-pro.git
- Install with npm:
npm install @coreui/coreui-pro
- Install with yarn:
yarn add @coreui/coreui-pro
- Install with Composer:
composer require coreui/coreui-pro:5.15.0
Read the Getting started page for information on the framework contents, templates and examples, and more.
Components
Status

What's included
Within the download you'll find the following directories and files, logically grouping common assets and providing both compiled and minified variations. You'll see something like this:
coreui/
├── css/
│ ├── coreui-grid.css
│ ├── coreui-grid.css.map
│ ├── coreui-grid.min.css
│ ├── coreui-grid.min.css.map
│ ├── coreui-grid.rtl.css
│ ├── coreui-grid.rtl.css.map
│ ├── coreui-grid.rtl.min.css
│ ├── coreui-grid.rtl.min.css.map
│ ├── coreui-reboot.css
│ ├── coreui-reboot.css.map
│ ├── coreui-reboot.min.css
│ ├── coreui-reboot.min.css.map
│ ├── coreui-reboot.rtl.css
│ ├── coreui-reboot.rtl.css.map
│ ├── coreui-reboot.rtl.min.css
│ ├── coreui-reboot.rtl.min.css.map
│ ├── coreui-utilities.css
│ ├── coreui-utilities.css.map
│ ├── coreui-utilities.min.css
│ ├── coreui-utilities.min.css.map
│ ├── coreui-utilities.rtl.css
│ ├── coreui-utilities.rtl.css.map
│ ├── coreui-utilities.rtl.min.css
│ ├── coreui-utilities.rtl.min.css.map
│ ├── coreui.css
│ ├── coreui.css.map
│ ├── coreui.min.css
│ ├── coreui.min.css.map
│ ├── coreui.rtl.css
│ ├── coreui.rtl.css.map
│ ├── coreui.rtl.min.css
│ └── coreui.rtl.min.css.map
└── js/
├── coreui.bundle.js
├── coreui.bundle.js.map
├── coreui.bundle.min.js
├── coreui.bundle.min.js.map
├── coreui.esm.js
├── coreui.esm.js.map
├── coreui.esm.min.js
├── coreui.esm.min.js.map
├── coreui.js
├── coreui.js.map
├── coreui.min.js
└── coreui.min.js.map
We provide compiled CSS and JS (coreui.*
), as well as compiled and minified CSS and JS (coreui.min.*
). source maps (coreui.*.map
) are available for use with certain browsers' developer tools. Bundled JS files (coreui.bundle.js
and minified coreui.bundle.min.js
) include Popper.
Bugs and feature requests
Have a bug or a feature request? Please first read the issue guidelines and search for existing and closed issues. If your problem or idea is not addressed yet, please open a new issue.
Documentation
The documentation for the CoreUI & CoreUI PRO is hosted at our website CoreUI
Running documentation locally
- Run
npm install
to install the Node.js dependencies, including Hugo (the site builder).
- Run
npm run test
(or a specific npm script) to rebuild distributed CSS and JavaScript files, as well as our docs assets.
- From the root
/coreui
directory, run npm run docs-serve
in the command line.
- Open
http://localhost:9001/
in your browser, and voilà.
Learn more about using Hugo by reading its documentation.
Frameworks
CoreUI supports most popular frameworks.
Templates
Fully featured, out-of-the-box, templates for your application based on CoreUI.
Contributing
Please read through our contributing guidelines. Included are directions for opening issues, coding standards, and notes on development.
Editor preferences are available in the editor config for easy use in common text editors. Read more and download plugins at https://editorconfig.org/.
Stay up to date on the development of CoreUI and reach out to the community with these helpful resources.
Versioning
For transparency into our release cycle and in striving to maintain backward compatibility, CoreUI is maintained under the Semantic Versioning guidelines.
See the Releases section of our project for changelogs for each release version.
Creators
Łukasz Holeczek
Andrzej Kopański
CoreUI Team
Thanks
CoreUI is designed as the extension of Bootstrap. Special thanks for Bootstrap team and Bootstrap's contributors.
Support CoreUI Development
CoreUI is an MIT-licensed open source project and is completely free to use. However, the amount of effort needed to maintain and develop new features for the project is not sustainable without proper financial backing. You can support development by buying the CoreUI PRO or by becoming a sponsor via Open Collective.
Copyright and license
Copyright 2025 creativeLabs Łukasz Holeczek.
This is commercial software. To use it, you have to own a commercial license. Docs released under Creative Commons.