# vuejs/vuex

🗃️ Centralized State Management for Vue.js.

Repository: https://github.com/vuejs/vuex
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/vuex
Homepage: https://vuex.vuejs.org
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: vue, javascript, vuex, state-management, time-travel
Last push: 2024-09-25T13:26:41+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": 4066, "days_push": 707, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 28320, forks 9418 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:48.234888+00:00)

## What it is
Vuex is a centralized state management pattern and library for Vue.js applications, providing a single store with predictable mutation rules and devtools integration including time-travel debugging. It is now in maintenance mode, with Pinia being the officially recommended state management library for new Vue projects.

## Use cases
- manage shared state across Vue components
- centralized store for Vue.js app
- time-travel debugging for Vue state
- predictable state mutations in Vue
- migrate existing Vuex app to Pinia
- state management for Vue 2 application

## When to choose
- maintaining an existing Vue 2 or Vue 3 app already using Vuex
- you need Vuex 3/4 compatibility or plugin ecosystem
- learning classic Vue state management patterns

## When to avoid
- starting a new Vue project - use Pinia instead
- you need new features or active development
- non-Vue frameworks - it is Vue-specific

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: state-management, frontend-framework
- domain: frontend, web-development, developer-tools
- platform: browser
- tags: vue, vuex, centralized-store, time-travel-debugging, pinia-successor, nodejs, javascript

## Member repositories
- vuejs/vuex (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:48.234888+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 2026-08-29T16:54:24.780580+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/vuejs/vuex (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:48.234888+00:00, sha 08f752279bd0)
  - homepage: https://vuex.vuejs.org (fetched 2026-08-29T07:51:13.423898+00:00, sha 37b363a711e2)
  - site_page: https://vuex.vuejs.org/installation (fetched 2026-08-29T07:51:13.426821+00:00, sha 87f2c789b2f0)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/vuex (fetched 2026-08-29T07:51:13.428905+00:00, sha a89d3397725d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.