Quick Start
To start using this design system you will need to import some files in your current project or start from scratch using our template (scroll down in this page to view it).
Local Development
If you do not want to use our template as base for your project, and want to integrate our template into your own project, please skip this part and the Live Production one, and go straight to Packages.
- Install NodeJS LTS latest version from NodeJS Official Page
- Go to creative tim website and login into your account
- Go to downloads section on creative tim website (be sure to be logged into your account)
- Press the download button near Argon Dashboard 2 MUI or Argon Dashboard 2 PRO MUI product (this will download onto your computer a zip file)
- If Argon Dashboard 2 MUI product does not appear in your downloads section, proceed to download it from here (but please note that you need to be logged into your account)
- If Argon Dashboard 2 PRO MUI product does not appear in your downloads section, you need to first purchase it from here (and after you recieve the confirmation email, you can download the product)
- Unzip the downloaded file to a folder in your computer
- Open your terminal
- Go to your file project (where you’ve unzipped the product)
- Run in terminal
yarn install
ornpm install
- Then run
yarn start
ornpm start
- Or you can simply run
yarn run install:clean
ornpm run install:clean
(if you use a linux based terminal) which will installnode_modules
and will also start your project. - If you have an error something containing Module not found you need to add our
jsconfig.json
file to your project - Navigate to https://localhost:3000
- More information → React
- More information → MUI
- More information → create-react-app
Live Production
These are some free open source tutorial on how to deploy a create-react-app app on some servers. Please note that your project might need some additional configs to deploy it on these servers:
- tutorial for deploying on heroku
- tutorial for deploying on github pages and surge
- tutorial for deploying on S3 and CloudFront
Packages
If you want to add our template over your own project, please add all contents of the package.json
file to your own package.json
file.
You will also need our base public/index.html
and src/index.js
(if you want to keep our routing system).
And the most important, our jsconfig.js
file - in this file, we make it possible for usage of absolute imports, so instead of having to write import X from "../../../../path/to/X.js"
you can write import X from "path/to/X.js"
which has a more elegant touch, and it is shorter.
CSS
This product makes usage of emotion and sx prop, as our friends from MUI.
- We’ve used the
ThemeProvider
insidesrc/App.js
: Style Library Interoperability - We’ve used the
CssBaseline
insidesrc/App.js
: CSS Baseline - We’ve used the
styled
utility insidesrc/components/*
andsrc/examples/*
files: Styled
If you are planning on adding our template into your own project, you will need to add our whole assets folder to your own project.
Starter Template
You will need to add to your mounting JS file (in our case it is src/App.js
) the following imports:
And after that, you will also need to initialize the app with our theme:
we’ve also added RTL support, which comes with its own theme. To get started with the RTL, you can use:
You can also follow the instructions from the official MUI docs: MUI Right to Left
Fonts and Icons
If you’ve started a new project and are copying our product there, be sure to add the following lines of code inside your public/index.html
file:
Important Globals
Argon Dashboard 2 MUI employs a handful of important global styles and settings that you’ll need to be aware of when using it, all of which are almost exclusively geared towards the normalization of cross browser styles. Let’s dive in.
Responsive meta tag
Material Design is developed mobile first, a strategy in which we optimize code for mobile devices first and then scale up components as necessary using CSS media queries. To ensure proper rendering and touch zooming for all devices, add the responsive viewport meta tag to your <head>
inside the public/index.html
file.
MUI components
MUI comes with some required dependencies, however, once you install @mui/material
, all its dependencies are installed together with it, so you do not have to worry about this.