vitepress
Advanced tools
VitePress is a static site generator powered by Vite and Vue. It is designed to be simple and performant, making it ideal for documentation sites and blogs.
Creating a Basic Site
This feature allows you to set up a basic VitePress site. The provided code snippet shows how to add scripts to your `package.json` to start the development server, build the site, and serve the built site.
```json
{
"scripts": {
"dev": "vitepress dev",
"build": "vitepress build",
"serve": "vitepress serve"
}
}
```Markdown Support
VitePress supports Markdown out of the box, allowing you to write your content in a simple and readable format. The code snippet demonstrates a basic Markdown file with headings and paragraphs.
```markdown
# Hello VitePress
This is a paragraph in VitePress.
## Subheading
More content here.
```Customizing the Theme
You can customize the theme of your VitePress site by extending the default theme. The code snippet shows how to replace the default layout with a custom Vue component.
```js
// .vitepress/theme/index.js
import DefaultTheme from 'vitepress/theme'
import MyLayout from './MyLayout.vue'
export default {
...DefaultTheme,
Layout: MyLayout
}
```Docusaurus is a static site generator focused on documentation websites. It offers a rich set of features like versioning, search, and theming. Compared to VitePress, Docusaurus is more feature-rich but also more complex to set up.
VuePress is another static site generator powered by Vue. It is similar to VitePress but uses Webpack instead of Vite. VuePress is more mature and has a larger community, but VitePress offers faster build times due to Vite.
Gatsby is a React-based static site generator. It is highly flexible and can be used for a wide range of websites, not just documentation. Gatsby has a large ecosystem of plugins but can be more complex to configure compared to VitePress.
VitePress is a Vue-powered static site generator and a spiritual successor to VuePress, built on top of Vite.
To check out docs, visit vitepress.dev.
Detailed changes for each release are documented in the CHANGELOG.
Please make sure to read the Contributing Guide before making a pull request.
Copyright (c) 2019-present, Yuxi (Evan) You
FAQs
Vite & Vue powered static site generator
The npm package vitepress receives a total of 129,773 weekly downloads. As such, vitepress popularity was classified as popular.
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