# vuejs/vue-cli

🛠️ webpack-based tooling for Vue.js Development

Repository: https://github.com/vuejs/vue-cli
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/vue-cli
Homepage: https://cli.vuejs.org/
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2025-08-21T10:56:30+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 41/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 38, release rhythm 12, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3903, "days_push": 377, "days_rel": 377, "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 29543, forks 6240 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:53.551503+00:00)

## What it is
Vue CLI is the official webpack-based scaffolding and build tooling for Vue.js development, providing project generation, a plugin system, and a graphical UI. It is now in maintenance mode, with create-vue (Vite-based) recommended for new projects.

## Use cases
- scaffold a new vue.js project
- set up webpack build config for a vue spa
- create a vue project with a graphical ui
- add plugins like router or vuex to a vue project
- build and serve a vue 2 application

## When to choose
- maintaining an existing Vue CLI / webpack-based Vue project
- working on a legacy Vue 2 codebase that still uses Vue CLI
- you need the vue ui graphical project manager

## When to avoid
- starting a new Vue project - use create-vue with Vite instead
- you want fast modern dev tooling rather than webpack
- building a non-Vue frontend stack

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: build-tool, cli, developer-tools
- domain: web-development, frontend, developer-tools
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: vue, webpack, scaffolding, spa, project-generator, bundler, command-line, nodejs

## Member repositories
- vuejs/vue-cli (main) score 41

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:53.551503+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 2026-08-29T16:52:58.412449+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/vuejs/vue-cli (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:53.551503+00:00, sha 2b05c9cca141)
  - homepage: https://cli.vuejs.org/ (fetched 2026-08-29T07:50:20.763707+00:00, sha de6f4adda9e3)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/vue-cli (fetched 2026-08-29T07:50:20.772765+00:00, sha 9c6d183fb971)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.