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# Installation

To use the PlainAdmin dashboard template, you'll first have to install it.

Follow these steps to install the [PlainAdmin](https://plainadmin.com/download) template:

**Note:** You’ll have to have Node.js installed on your machine. Otherwise, these commands won’t work.

1. Download the dashboard template from PlainAdmin, and extract it.
2. Then navigate to the project folder and run this command to Download Gulp Command Line Interface to be able to use gulp in your Terminal.

```
yarn add gulp-cli -g 
```

After installing Gulp, run yarn install in the main plainadmin/ folder to download all the project dependencies. You’ll find them in the node\_modules/ folder.

```
yarn add 
```

Run gulp in the plainadmin/ folder to serve the project files using BrowserSync. Running gulp will compile the theme and open /<https://plainadmin.com> in your main browser.

```
gulp
```

While the gulp command is running, files in the assets/scss/ and all html files will be monitored for changes. Files from the assets/scss/ folder will generate injected CSS.

Hit CTRL+C to terminate the gulp command. This will stop the local server from running.