# davidhund/styleguide-generators

An overview of automatic living styleguide generators

Repository: https://github.com/davidhund/styleguide-generators
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/styleguide-generators
License Family: other
Topics: styleguide, pattern-lab, style-guide
Last push: 2019-05-31T17:00:33+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4529, "days_push": 2651, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1898, forks 117 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:51.262912+00:00)

## What it is
A curated list of automatic living styleguide and pattern library generators for web development, organized by language and ecosystem (PHP, Ruby, Node, React, etc.). It is a reference catalog rather than a tool itself.

## Use cases
- find a tool to generate a living style guide
- compare pattern library generators for my stack
- discover styleguide generators for React or Vue
- learn about living style guide tooling
- find alternatives to Pattern Lab
- choose a styleguide generator for a design system

## When to choose
- you are researching which styleguide or pattern library generator to adopt
- you want a broad overview of tooling across languages and frameworks
- you need a starting point for building a design system documentation workflow

## When to avoid
- you need an actual working tool rather than a list of links
- you expect maintained software with releases and support
- you need up-to-date recommendations, as the list has not been actively updated since 2019

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: maintenance
- function: documentation, ui-components, developer-tools
- domain: web-development, frontend, web-design, awesome-lists, documentation
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: styleguide, living-style-guide, pattern-library, curated-list, design-systems

## Member repositories
- davidhund/styleguide-generators (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:51.262912+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 2026-08-30T03:12:12.753147+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/davidhund/styleguide-generators (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:51.262912+00:00, sha 653b29d1a820)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.