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Introducing Nexus: A Polished Dashboard Built with Vite, React, and Shadcn/ui

Praveen Sripati on July 20, 2025

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Stasi Vladimirov • Jul 22 '25

Might want to rename this template to a Feed or something like that. Admin dashboard usually need to include:

form components: admins manage data. How do you do that without inputs, which also includes filters for:
chart and visualization components: or other tools that can display data at scale and allow ways to slice and dice it
navigation/menu: some way to organize the application without dumping everything on a single page. Especially important for mobile support.

Other than that your project looks like a good exercise in creating various widgets.

Praveen Sripati • Jul 22 '25

Thanks for the feedback. You're right, renaming it to "Feed" makes more sense given the current structure. I’ll definitely consider adding form elements, filters, and proper navigation to bring it closer to a full-fledged admin dashboard. Appreciate you pointing that out!

Joshua DeLong • Jul 27 '25

It's great work and will fit it's place but you are going to have a very hard time marketing it and people finding it because of the name. I only say this because of Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager is going to over shadow any results in finding it or finding any documentation to support it. My only recommendation is coming up with a different name or a parent name like "Praveen Nexus" to make your application distinct.

Praveen Sripati • Jul 27 '25

Thanks a lot for the feedback, that’s a very valid point! I didn’t initially consider with Sonatype Nexus, but you're absolutely right. I’ll definitely look into renaming or adding a unique prefix to make it stand out better. Appreciate you pointing it out early! 🙌

khi195 • Jul 22 '25

Well done Praveen, looks great.

Praveen Sripati • Jul 22 '25

Thanks

Kevin Möchel • Jul 22 '25

Can you please add a big thanks on your GitHub repo for the creator of the theme transition animation? Its awesome and we should pay our respect.

Two remarks on the implementation:

The transition should check if the user has reduced motion active and skip the animation accordingly.
You override the global default behaviour of view transitions in your CSS. This leads to the default link navigation to have no animation at all, which is not intentional . I have an implementation here that solve the issue by temporarily overriding the root transition for the duration of the theme toggle.

Praveen Sripati • Jul 23 '25

Thanks! I’ll definitely give a shoutout to the creator of the theme transition, it’s amazing and truly deserves credit. Great points, I’ll try to implement those as well. Appreciate the feedback! 🙏.