# Yuyz0112/dewhale

GitHub-Powered AI for effortless development. Start as an open-source alternative to v0.dev.

Repository: https://github.com/Yuyz0112/dewhale
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/dewhale
Homepage: https://dewhale.pages.dev/
Language: TypeScript
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2025-04-14T08:37:59+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 33/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 16, release rhythm 35, longevity 70
- inputs: {"age_days": 987, "days_push": 506, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1545, forks 220 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:01.549082+00:00)

## What it is
Dewhale is a GitHub-powered AI code generation service that turns GitHub issues describing UI needs into pull requests with generated React, Vue, or Svelte code. It acts as an open-source alternative to v0.dev, using GPT-4 with open-sourced prompts and GitHub Actions for the generation workflow.

## Use cases
- generate UI code from a GitHub issue description
- open-source alternative to v0.dev for React components
- turn text or image mockups into shadcn/ui code via pull request
- iterate on generated UI through PR comments and code review
- self-host an AI UI generator with quota management for users
- customize AI code generation prompts for other component libraries

## When to choose
- you want AI-generated UI code stored and reviewed on GitHub
- you prefer issue-driven workflows with pull request output
- you need a self-hostable, customizable v0.dev alternative
- you want to control generation costs by editing open prompts

## When to avoid
- you need a polished hosted web app rather than a GitHub workflow
- you don't use GitHub or OpenAI-compatible models
- the project is in maintenance mode pending a v2 rewrite, so expect to fork and maintain it yourself

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: maintenance
- function: agent-framework, prompt-engineering, ui-components, developer-tools, workflow-automation
- domain: developer-tools, web-development, frontend, artificial-intelligence
- platform: -
- tags: github-actions, ai-code-generation, v0-alternative, ui-generation, issue-driven, self-hosted, openai, automation, web-server, nodejs, typescript, github

## Member repositories
- Yuyz0112/dewhale (main) score 33

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:01.549082+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 2026-08-30T04:30:35.362047+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Yuyz0112/dewhale (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:01.549082+00:00, sha b947b8e1ec17)
  - homepage: https://dewhale.pages.dev/ (fetched 2026-08-29T11:31:53.031967+00:00, sha ca7cc08071f3)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.