coreui

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

• Table of contents
• Quick start
• Components
• Status
• What's included
• Bugs and feature requests
• Documentation
• Frameworks
• Templates
• Templates
• Data Grid
• Scheduler
• Contributing
• Community
• Versioning
• Creators
• Thanks
• Support CoreUI Development
• Copyright and license

Quick start

Several quick start options are available:

• Download the latest release
• Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/coreui/coreui.git
• Install with npm: npm install @coreui/coreui
• Install with yarn: yarn add @coreui/coreui
• Install with Composer: composer require coreui/coreui:5.9.1

Read the Getting started page for information on the framework contents, templates and examples, and more.

Components

• Bootstrap Accordion
• Bootstrap Alert
• Bootstrap Autocomplete PRO
• Bootstrap Avatar
• Bootstrap Badge
• Bootstrap Breadcrumb
• Bootstrap Button
• Bootstrap Button Group
• Bootstrap Callout
• Bootstrap Card
• Bootstrap Carousel
• Bootstrap Chip
• Bootstrap Chip Input
• Bootstrap Chip Set
• Bootstrap Checkbox
• Bootstrap Close Button
• Bootstrap Calendar PRO
• Bootstrap Collapse
• Bootstrap Date Picker PRO
• Bootstrap Date Range Picker PRO
• Bootstrap Dropdown
• Bootstrap Floating Labels
• Bootstrap Footer
• Bootstrap Header
• Bootstrap Image
• Bootstrap Input
• Bootstrap Input Group
• Bootstrap List Group
• Bootstrap Loading Button PRO
• Bootstrap Modal
• Bootstrap Multi Select PRO
• Bootstrap Navs & Tabs
• Bootstrap Navbar
• Bootstrap Offcanvas
• Bootstrap Pagination
• Bootstrap Password Input PRO
• Bootstrap Placeholder
• Bootstrap Popover
• Bootstrap Progress
• Bootstrap Radio
• Bootstrap Range
• Bootstrap Range Slider PRO
• Bootstrap Rating PRO
• Bootstrap Select
• Bootstrap Sidebar
• Bootstrap Search Button
• Bootstrap Spinner
• Bootstrap Stepper PRO
• Bootstrap Switch
• Bootstrap Table
• Bootstrap Textarea
• Bootstrap Time Picker PRO
• Bootstrap Toast
• Bootstrap Tooltip

Status

[Build Status] [npm version] [Packagist Prerelease] [Coverage Status] [CSS gzip size] [CSS Brotli size] [JS gzip size] [JS Brotli size]

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

1. Run npm install to install the Node.js dependencies, including Hugo (the site builder).
2. Run npm run test (or a specific npm script) to rebuild distributed CSS and JavaScript files, as well as our docs assets.
3. From the root /coreui directory, run npm run docs-serve in the command line.
4. Open http://localhost:9001/ in your browser, and voilà.

Learn more about using Hugo by reading its documentation.

Frameworks

CoreUI supports most popular frameworks.

• CoreUI for Angular
• CoreUI for Bootstrap (Vanilla JS)
• CoreUI for React
• CoreUI for Vue

Templates

Fully featured, out-of-the-box, templates for your application based on CoreUI.

• Angular Admin Templates
• Bootstrap Admin Templates
• Next.js Admin Templates
• React Admin Templates
• Vue Admin Templates

Boilerplates

• AI-Native Next.js Boilerplate for Internal Tools

Data Grid

CoreUI JavaScript Data Grid handles 100,000+ rows with sorting, filtering, virtualization, column pinning, inline editing and CSV export — using the same markup and stylesheet you already use.

npm install @coreui/data-grid

One license also covers React, Vue and Angular. It's a separate add-on, not part of CoreUI PRO.

• JavaScript Data Grid
• Documentation

Scheduler

CoreUI JavaScript Scheduler ships six views — day, week, month, agenda, resources, and timeline — with drag & drop, RFC 5545 recurrence, and DST-safe time handling, using the same markup and stylesheet you already use.

npm install @coreui/scheduler

One license also covers React, Vue and Angular. It's a separate add-on, not part of CoreUI PRO.

• JavaScript Scheduler
• Documentation

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/.

Community

Stay up to date on the development of CoreUI and reach out to the community with these helpful resources.

• Read and subscribe to The Official CoreUI Blog.
• Follow @core_ui on Twitter.
• Discuss, ask questions, and more on the community Discord.

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

• https://twitter.com/lukaszholeczek
• https://github.com/mrholek

Andrzej Kopański

• https://github.com/xidedix

CoreUI Team

• https://twitter.com/core_ui
• https://github.com/coreui
• https://github.com/orgs/coreui/people

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 2026 creativeLabs Łukasz Holeczek. Code released under the MIT License. Docs released under Creative Commons.