# vue-styleguidist/vue-styleguidist

Created from react styleguidist for Vue Components with a living style guide

Repository: https://github.com/vue-styleguidist/vue-styleguidist
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/vue-styleguidist
Homepage: https://vue-styleguidist.github.io
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: vue-components, styleguide, vuejs, vue, parser, doc, markdown, documentation, style-guide, design-system
Archived: true
Last push: 2026-07-31T09:52:27+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 95, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3370, "days_push": 33, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2492, forks 411 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:56.498970+00:00)

## What it is
Vue Styleguidist is an isolated Vue component development environment that generates a living style guide website from component documentation, adapted from React Styleguidist. It includes vue-docgen-api for parsing Vue components and offers an interactive playground with hot reload.

## Use cases
- document vue components in a living style guide
- build a design system showcase site for vue components
- develop vue components in isolation with hot reload
- let designers preview vue component variants in a browser playground
- auto-generate component api docs from vue props

## When to choose
- you maintain an existing vue-styleguidist setup and just need it to keep running
- you prefer its markdown-based docs format over storybook

## When to avoid
- starting a new project - it is archived and unmaintained
- you want active support for the latest vue versions
- you can use alternatives like Storybook Docs, Histoire, or Astro

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: documentation, ui-components, frontend-framework
- domain: frontend, web-development, documentation, developer-tools
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: vue, style-guide, design-system, component-playground, living-style-guide, archived, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- vue-styleguidist/vue-styleguidist (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:56.498970+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 2026-08-30T02:27:46.658788+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/vue-styleguidist/vue-styleguidist (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:56.498970+00:00, sha e0df6b87c2d4)
  - homepage: https://vue-styleguidist.github.io (fetched 2026-08-29T10:09:35.470110+00:00, sha b3376aad2efe)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.