Daniel C - hi guys! has anyone try to integrate...
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hi guys! has anyone try to integrate something like metronic dashboard, seem like a lot of headaches to do it
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Hi @Daniel C what are you trying to do exactly? Metronic dashboard seems to be an admin dashboard built with Bootstrap, and Twill already has a CMS UI, so I'm confused. Are you trying to use Metronic components inside Twill? in the dashboard screen of Twill? or are you building a frontend on top of Twill using this?
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thanks, for the reply, i'm trying to make a cms, and the client just happened to like/want the look of metronic, he doesn't really like the twill dashboard, and i was wondering what's the best approach, try and edit/add on twill or try and use/integrate metronic's vue components
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metronic only deals with rendering UI for dashboard/admin panels/any type of page really, so if you want to use it on top of Twill, you're going to have to integrate everything to the internals of Twill, which means a crazy amount of work depending on the features you'll need to recreate using those components. For example, how do you envision building Twill's block editor using Metronic? What does the client likes more about it? If they are just looking at the dashboard modules, that's not really the core of a CMS, tables and forms are more fundamental aspects.
to be clear, the work I'm talking about is really all the javascript you'd need to write to make those components submit forms like Twill frontend does
just to be even more clear, your question is exactly as if you were asking Wordpress maintainers how to replace Wordpress admin UI with Metronic
d
solid point, i’ll try to make some tabels and a few othter small things look like metronic, but it is exactly what i feared and it is absolutely not worth it, thanks!
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you can definitely customize the Twill UI with your own CSS, if that helps
you can also create "free pages" in the CMS where you can do anything below the Twill navigation
pretty sure you could use the metronic components there, for things more dashboard-y