When I bought Metronic 13 years ago, what I loved about it was that I could grab components that were beautiful and functional right out of the box. Those were the HTML days... <sigh>

Now I'm building a more modern app so I'm using the more modern version.

Aaaaaaannnnndddd.... three weeks later I'm still )&)#ing lost feeling like a total moron but mostly frustrated that what I envisioned as a fast UI dev process has devolved into me floundering like an idiot. (yes, I'm more focused on backend dev)

The installation instructions make zero sense. Why?

Because once I'm done following the instructions, I have a beautiful partial page. The top nav and sidebar UI are great. But I didn't buy a top nav and sidebar. I bought a fully functioning admin.

But it's also little things like when I get to step 3 'Install Packages & Start Development Server'

I get this: Module not found: Can't resolve './fonts/keenicons-duotone.ttf?gcn9yo'

Now, sure, I can read and I can see where I can correct that but hopefully you can understand that the instructions suck.

Why so harsh? Well, immediately following the above instruction at step 3 is 'That's it! You now have the Metronic Tailwind template integrated into your React project.'

But there is also the fact that, after following the installation instructions, I don't have *any* pages to model and modify and I'm missing fully functioning components in the /core/components directory.

There are plugins available in .js files but I didn't pay for a template to just need to figure out how to create plugins...

Given my stellar history with this template it must be my total idiocy. So what am I missing and how do I correct it?