# Element

A Vue.js 2.0 UI Toolkit for Web

Repository: https://github.com/ElemeFE/element
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/element
Homepage: https://element.eleme.io/
Language: Vue
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: vue, components, javascript, vue-components, ui-kit, element-ui, vuejs
Last push: 2024-08-20T07:40:13+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3651, "days_push": 743, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 54059, forks 14408 (observed 2026-08-28T04:12:18.205886+00:00)

## What it is
Element UI is a Vue.js 2.0 component library providing a comprehensive set of web UI widgets such as tables, forms, dialogs, and navigation. It is the classic Element toolkit, now in maintenance mode with Vue 3 development moved to Element Plus.

## Use cases
- build admin dashboards with vue 2
- vue component library for forms and tables
- rapidly prototype web ui in vuejs
- styled dialogs tables and menus for vue app
- enterprise web app ui components
- customize theme for vue ui kit

## When to choose
- you are maintaining or building a Vue 2.x application
- you want a mature, battle-tested component set with extensive docs and i18n
- you need a consistent enterprise-style design system for Vue

## When to avoid
- you are starting a new project on Vue 3 - use Element Plus instead
- you use React or Angular (see element-react / element-angular forks)
- you need a lightweight custom design rather than a full kit

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, css-framework, frontend-framework
- domain: frontend, web-development, web-design
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: vue, vue2, element-ui, ui-kit, component-library, design-system, web-server, nodejs

## Member repositories
- ElemeFE/element (main) score 23
- ElemeFE/element-react (sdk) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:18.205886+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 2026-08-29T16:19:14.591554+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ElemeFE/element (fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:18.205886+00:00, sha 1c3955ff3fe2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.