# FormidableLabs/react-live

A flexible playground for live editing React components

Repository: https://github.com/FormidableLabs/react-live
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/react-live
Homepage: https://commerce.nearform.com/open-source/react-live/
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: react, component-playground, live
Last push: 2025-01-09T17:09:58+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": 3441, "days_push": 601, "days_rel": 652, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4611, forks 258 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:54.987123+00:00)

## What it is
React Live is a React library that renders React components with editable source code and a live preview, acting as an embeddable playground. It is modular, letting developers style and compose the editor, preview, and error pane components freely.

## Use cases
- embed a live editable React code playground in documentation
- let users edit and preview JSX snippets in a docs site
- build an interactive component demo with live preview
- showcase React components with editable source code
- render multiple components with hooks using the noInline render function
- add a lightweight live coding editor to a React app

## When to choose
- you need a lightweight, customizable live React playground embedded in your site
- you want modular editor/preview/error components you can style yourself
- you're building component documentation with interactive examples

## When to avoid
- you need a full standalone IDE or sandboxed multi-file playground like CodeSandbox
- you need to run code in a secure sandbox against untrusted users
- your project is not React-based

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: ui-components, frontend-framework, editor
- domain: web-development, frontend, developer-tools, documentation
- platform: browser
- tags: react, live-editing, playground, code-editor, jsx, component-preview, docs, web-server, nodejs

## Member repositories
- FormidableLabs/react-live (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:54.987123+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 2026-08-29T18:19:43.025028+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/FormidableLabs/react-live (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:54.987123+00:00, sha 44f685dd9e66)
  - homepage: https://commerce.nearform.com/open-source/react-live/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:04:48.445733+00:00, sha 7c64a956c623)
  - site_page: https://nearform.com/open-source/react-live/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T09:04:48.455018+00:00, sha 92662740f2eb)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/react-live (fetched 2026-08-29T09:04:48.457172+00:00, sha 8830f25fc886)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.