# styleguidist/react-styleguidist

Isolated React component development environment with a living style guide

Repository: https://github.com/styleguidist/react-styleguidist
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/react-styleguidist
Homepage: https://react-styleguidist.js.org/
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: react, styleguide, documentation, hacktoberfest
Last push: 2025-01-07T10:44:29+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": 4013, "days_push": 603, "days_rel": 603, "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 11066, forks 1413 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:46.006154+00:00)

## What it is
React Styleguidist is an isolated React component development environment with a hot-reloaded dev server and a living style guide. It auto-generates usage documentation from propTypes and renders live, editable examples from Markdown files that can be shared with a team.

## Use cases
- develop React components in isolation with hot reload
- generate a living style guide for a component library
- document React component props and usage automatically
- share an interactive component playground with designers
- preview component variants with different props in the browser
- build a static HTML style guide site for a design system

## When to choose
- you maintain a React component library or design system needing documentation
- you want isolated component development with live editable examples
- your team needs a shareable style guide for designers and developers
- you use Create React App or webpack and want easy integration

## When to avoid
- you use Vue, Angular, or non-React frameworks
- you need full application-level preview rather than isolated components
- your project doesn't use webpack or a compatible bundler setup
- you only need static API docs without interactive examples

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: documentation, developer-tools, frontend-framework, ui-components
- domain: web-development, frontend, documentation, developer-tools
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: react, styleguide, component-development, living-style-guide, hot-reload, markdown-docs, component-playground, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- styleguidist/react-styleguidist (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:46.006154+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 2026-08-29T17:16:49.669959+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/styleguidist/react-styleguidist (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:46.006154+00:00, sha 750626de6980)
  - homepage: https://react-styleguidist.js.org/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:15:53.477853+00:00, sha 03a865069671)
  - site_page: https://react-styleguidist.js.org/docs/getting-started (fetched 2026-08-29T08:15:53.487017+00:00, sha 7315d34bbb19)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.