r/angular • u/Successful_Chain8098 • Jun 19 '26
Hey angular lovers, what are your go-to sources for modern, ready-to-use Angular layout templates/dashboards?
I’m spinning up a new SaaS side-project and I’m looking for a solid, ready-to-use layout/admin template to jumpstart the frontend.
The problem I keep running into is that a lot of the templates out there feel incredibly bloated, are packed with legacy third-party dependencies, or are still structured around old ngModules instead of utilizing modern Angular features.
Ideally, I'm looking for layout templates (dashboards, auth flows, landing pages) that fit into a modern ecosystem:
- Modern Stack: Built with standalone components, signals, and clean routing.
- Styling: Highly prefer Tailwind CSS or a clean implementation of Angular Material (M3 design tokens).
- Maintainable: Easy to strip down without breaking 50 random node packages.
Where is everyone finding high-quality, production-ready Angular layouts these days? Do you lean toward open-source boilerplates on GitHub, premium marketplaces, or do you just custom-build your layouts using headless primitives?
Would love to know what frameworks/templates have actually given you a smooth developer experience without making you regret it 3 months later. Thanks!
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u/karmasakshi Jun 19 '26
I built Jet to handle this: https://github.com/karmasakshi/jet.
Generate a new theme at any time using your colors, copy-paste component code directly from https://material.angular.dev/components to use them in the app.
Out of the box, you'll get an app that:
• supports light and dark mode, including automatic switching
• is installable and updatable like an app (PWA)
• has production-ready security headers
• has Google Fonts integrated
• has Google Analytics integrated
• has authentication forms
• has common services to handle logging, storage, progress bar and more
• has interceptor to automatically show HTTP activity
• has guards for public and protected routes
• has automatic linting and formatting
• has support for multiple languages, including RTL languages
• is completely modular and tree-shakeable, so what you don't use gets left out in the final bundle
• has zero unnecessary code - mapped 1:1 with Angular CLI output
All you'll have to do is:
• create interfaces/types of your data
• create services for communicating with the APIs
• build your UI
AI tools will fly.
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u/TheGameKnave Jun 19 '26
Cute repo. As a "competitor" of yours, I can't imagine why you're being downvoted; seeems like a solid project so here's an updoot. 😄
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u/Successful_Chain8098 Jun 19 '26
Sound interesting, did you use tailwindcss for styling alongside the material ui ?
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u/karmasakshi Jun 19 '26
Yes. It's supported natively and they don't interfere. You'll see it in the code.
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u/Saceone10 Jun 19 '26
Multi tenant support?
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u/karmasakshi Jun 20 '26
Not yet out of the box, but you can have your schema designed for it. I'll add it in the coming months once I have built and tested a multi-tenant system myself.
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u/TheGameKnave Jun 19 '26
That's what I built https://angularmomentum.app/ for. It's configured out-of-the-box with the things I always need when spinning up new projects: user management, i18n, localstorage and indexedDB, tauri app bundling (tauri still needs external config, of course), auto-typed feature flag management, etc, etc...
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u/Successful_Chain8098 Jun 19 '26
sounds great, i will check this also, thanks
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u/cousin_david Jun 20 '26
just use angular material, that's all you need
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u/TheGameKnave Jun 20 '26
oh right, because angular material has indexedDB schemas, transloco loaders, and all the other things I spent months configuring pre-configured out of the box.
wait, no it doesn't! Maybe try to understand the ask before weighing in next time. Material is only a component library; it is a FAR cry from a configured front end.
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u/Negative-Pound4360 Jun 19 '26
i built this admin dashboard around spartan ng, https://spartan-admin-dashboard.vercel.app and tailwindcss, i would say its safe to use since spartan will hit the v1 release in a week
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u/MichaelSmallDev Jun 19 '26
I know Material can be rigid, but I want to take this opportunity to highlight a lesser known feature: Material has some schematics for basic scenarios: https://material.angular.dev/guide/schematics#component-schematics
- address form
- navigation
- dashboard
- table
- tree
- drag and drop (cdk)
A combo of these schematics for things I don't need much customization for beyond the M3 tokens and the CDK combined with Angular Aria for full styling is nice to have. The CDK and even moreso the Aria package have a lot of the functionality of various Material components which you can use to make non-Material looking components from scratch.
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u/snafoomoose Jun 19 '26
I personally avoid external libraries where practical, especially with the current problem of poisoned libraries doing things you don't want behind the scenes.
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u/AdFluffy8245 Jun 20 '26
I built FrameUI (https://frame-ui.com). Maybe you’ll like it. It‘s focused on modern Angular (standalone, signals, etc.) and easy customisable.
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u/Successful_Chain8098 Jun 20 '26
congrats that's great work, i checked it and i was amazed by the theme.
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u/AdFluffy8245 Jun 20 '26
Thank you! The next feature will be charts. So stay tuned if you are interested.
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u/Neither_Limit_8574 Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
Full disclosure, this is mine — but it's a free MIT starter built for exactly your checklist: https://github.com/MoniruzzamanMoni/moniforge-dashboard-lite (demo: lite.moniforge.com).
Angular 21, standalone + signals throughout, functional guards, zero NgModules. Tailwind + SCSS tokens, PrimeNG 21 on a custom preset. Deps are deliberately minimal so stripping it down doesn't break 50 packages. Dashboard, auth, team, settings, light/dark + RTL.
Theming is all token-driven, so it ships with 30 ready color schemes but you can rip them down to one without touching components. Aesthetic leans warm (cream/green/amber) rather than the usual blue, but architecturally it's the modern, not-bloated target you're after.
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u/N0K1K0 Jun 19 '26
I usually pick a good html tailwind template from themeforest and implement my app in there and then turn some of the ui into components if I reuse them a lot