# meetalva/alva

Create living prototypes with code components.

Repository: https://github.com/meetalva/alva
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/alva
Homepage: https://meetalva.io
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: design, design-system, react, components
Archived: true
Last push: 2022-06-24T23:01:00+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3213, "days_push": 1531, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3696, forks 215 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:14.881173+00:00)

## What it is
Alva is a design tool for creating living prototypes built from real React code components, letting designers and developers compose working interfaces from a shared component library. It is a TypeScript-based desktop application released under the MIT license.

## Use cases
- build interactive prototypes from real React components
- let designers compose UIs using a design system's code components
- sketch product concepts quickly without writing full apps
- bridge the gap between design mockups and production code
- iterate on component-based designs with a team

## When to choose
- your team uses React and wants prototypes made from actual code components
- you maintain a design system and want designers to use it directly
- you prefer code-backed prototypes over static mockup tools

## When to avoid
- you need a actively developed tool with recent updates and support
- your stack is not React-based
- you only need static mockups or wireframes without code components

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, frontend-framework, developer-tools
- domain: web-development, frontend, web-design
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: design-tool, design-system, react-components, prototyping, living-prototypes, visual-editor, design-systems, desktop, electron, nodejs

## Member repositories
- meetalva/alva (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:14.881173+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:31:04.729908+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/meetalva/alva (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:14.881173+00:00, sha 84b8cd3e372b)
  - homepage: https://meetalva.io (fetched 2026-08-29T09:25:06.510931+00:00, sha 2538238ddf92)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.