Building a CRM Dashboard with React

A CRM dashboard lives or dies on clarity: who are my contacts, where are my deals, and what needs attention today. Here's how to structure one.

Core screens

• Contacts list with search, filters, and detail drawer
• Deals / pipeline board (kanban) with stages
• Activity timeline per contact and deal
• Dashboard with pipeline value, win rate, and recent activity

Data model

At minimum: Contact, Company, Deal (with stage + value), and Activity. Keep relations simple early; a Deal belongs to a Contact/Company and has many Activities.

Components to reuse

Tables with sorting/filtering, a kanban board, charts for pipeline metrics, and a detail panel. These are the same building blocks a good admin template already provides.

Rather than build all of it from scratch, start from a production-grade admin dashboard template and adapt the tables, boards, and charts into your CRM.