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Nebula Admin Theme
Open Source for Magento 2.4.x and MageOS

Replace Magento's
Legacy Admin Theme
Bring It Into the 21st Century

Nebula modernizes Magento Admin with a faster interface, cleaner workflows, dark mode, and developer-friendly customization, without forcing you to replace Magento itself.

A modern admin experience for merchants, agencies, and developers.

Modern admin UIDark mode and skinsMagento 2.4.x & MageOSOpen source
18
Core Modules
Focused Magento admin packages
24
JSON Forms
Schema-backed edit screens
53
JSON Grids
Listings, reports, orders, customers
55
Reusable Snippets
Composable admin building blocks
18
Built-in Skins
Dark, branded, accessible
463
PHP Unit Tests
RC1 hardening suite
130
Vitest Tests
Frontend runtime checks
31
Bridge Tests
Third-party compatibility
RC1 gatesphpcs 0/0tsc 0phpunit 463vitest 130Playwright e2e

Magento Admin Has Stayed Legacy for Too Long

Magento powers serious commerce, but its default admin still carries a frontend stack from another era. Nebula replaces that legacy admin theme with a cleaner, faster experience built for how teams work now.

RequireJS
Native ES modules
KnockoutJS
Alpine.js 3.x
jQuery
Vanilla JS
UI Components
JSON definitions
Underscore
Gone
PrototypeJS
Gone
LESS
Tailwind CSS 4
<table> layouts
CSS Grid + Flexbox
Grunt
Zero build step
XML UI Config
JSON + PHP
Magento UI Lib
Tailwind utilities
RequireJS mixins
Alpine.data()

Who is Nebula for?

Nebula is built for the people who live in Magento Admin every day, and for the teams who have to extend it.

Store Owners & Admin Teams

  • Make daily order, catalog, and content work faster.
  • Give your team an admin they actually want to use.
  • Use dark mode, pinned navigation, and better dashboards out of the box.
  • Modernize the back office without changing your commerce platform.

Magento Developers

  • Work with a simpler, more maintainable admin stack.
  • Replace bulky XML UI patterns with clearer definitions.
  • Extend grids, forms, and skins without rewriting everything.
  • Move Magento Admin forward without fighting legacy frontend behavior on every change.

Agencies & Integrators

  • Deliver admin improvements faster and with less frontend overhead.
  • Customize the experience for each client without maintaining a fragile theme fork.
  • Brand the admin with skins and visual presets.
  • Reduce the cost of Magento back-office customization.

Extension Developers

  • Extend Nebula with overlays, reusable snippets, and custom skins.
  • Keep compatibility in view while moving Magento Admin forward.
  • Work with a modern UI layer without proprietary APIs or lock-in.
  • Ship better back-office experiences alongside existing Magento ecosystems.

Documentation in progress

The full docs are under active development

What you see here is the preview. The preview pages cover the core ideas today; the full release adds complete schema references, migration recipes, bridge & transformer guides, extension points and a component cookbook — landing alongside the first stable release of Nebula Admin Theme.

Releasing June 25, 2026

Replace Magento's Legacy Admin Theme
Bring Magento Into the 21st Century

Nebula gives Magento and MageOS teams a modern admin experience without license fees, vendor lock-in, or a full platform rebuild.