Vue-styleguide-generator NPM

Vue js components styleguide generator 📚

dependencies status

Initially started after reading this vue.js feature request. Now only basic proof of concept is available which can load folder with .vue files, parse it and extract basic props of it.

Target is to have some tool with at least some of the React version capabilities.

Idea is to have what vue-play does but in automated way - with one task run, plus READMEs, etc.

Generate single html file containing all components listed with details and search out from your .vue project files.

Update: Now as from 0.9.11 also your .js files referenced from .vue files are supported

Questions & bugs

General questions please ping me on twitter @legkoletat.
Bugs and inconsistencies please create an issue . Please concider to adding more information on what is the codebase you're running the generator against, what errors (with code, if applicable) you got. To keep issues list clean and relevant issues with no feedback/details/activity will be closed within 3 days.

1. Examples

Running on large components collections

Run with Keen-UI repo produces the following DEMO html-file.
Run with vuikit repo produces the following DEMO html-file.

Output UI demo

resulting output

2. Setup

npm install vue-styleguide-generator --save-dev
add to you package.json in script section - for example like this "build-components": "node ./node_modules/vue-styleguide-generator/" and then run npm run build-components from the root folder of the project.
🏃 You can also manually (or using Gulp/Grunt) run node ./node_modules/vue-styleguide-generator/

3. Usage

✅ Works only for Vue 2.x projects.

CLI options

Name	Type	Description	Default
--src	String	Source dir, will be recursively scanned	src
--dest	String	Destination output dir, file index.html will be placed there	components-preview
--exclude	RegExp	File mask to exclude certain type of files	/^./
--locale	String	Output locale language	en
--verbose	String	Output all details while processing	false
--all	String	Do not ignore any components	false
--o	String	Open browser preview after generating	false

E.g.: node ./node_modules/vue-styleguide-generator/ --src components --dest preview will read components from PROJECT_ROOT/components folder and provide a html page into PROJECT_ROOT/preview folder

To see all parser error run with DEBUG: DEBUG=app node ./node_modules/vue-styleguide-generator/

How the components are iterated

If you want to see more information about the component - add a .md file in the same directory. While retrieving the files the following assumptions are made:

if there are files with the same name in one folder (e.g. /scr/partials/TabBar.vue and /scr/partials/TabBar.md) it's assumed to be one component;
if there are only two files in the folder and one is .vue and another is .md (e.g. /scr/TabBar/codez.vue and /scr/partials/readers.md) it's assumed to be one component;
If there are >1 .vue files in the folder and .md file that does not have the same name as one of the .vue files - this .md file is ignored
Components with no props, no computed and no methods defined are considered to be a simple wrappers and not outputed

Found a bug or have a proposal - please create an issue or tweet me @legkoletat!

Todos

syntax highlighting
core: add tests
align parsing and display with vue-js-component-style-guide
core: move the demo-page to use Vue so that components can be generated from its declaration
ui: output extra component parameters (computable, data)
various use cases testing, added vuikit and Keen-UI links

Contributions are welcome 👍!

Especially on following:

translations
extra features
implementing SSR

Bugs and problems

window object may not be patched fully so some component's code execution may fail
'vue-template-compiler' must be the same as the version of 'vue' you're using in your codebase. Now set to 2.1.10. may have to manually put to other version that's used in your project.'