VitePress
Static site generator built on Vite and Vue that turns Markdown content into content-centric websites.
VitePress is a static site generator built on Vite and Vue that turns Markdown files into documentation-style websites. Pages are written in Markdown and can embed Vue components, and locales are set up as directories. The build produces static files that any static host can serve. VitePress succeeds VuePress 1. The Vue team’s guide names it as the team’s long-term recommended static site generator.
Worth knowing
The install guide installs the pre-release line from npm’s next tag, so the docs describe a newer version than the latest stable release.
Identity
Rendering and deploy
- Runs as
- Static files7
- Rendering
- Static output, In the browser2
- Install with
- npm add -D vitepress@next, then npx vitepress init7
Releases
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-10-18: links, Written in, License, GitHub stars
github.com/vuejs/vitepress - 2026-10-18: links, Maintainer, Maintained by, Categories, Content storage, Templating, Rendering
vitepress.dev/guide/what-is-vitepress - 2026-10-18: First release, Last release
registry.npmjs.org/vitepress - 2026-10-18: Maintainer, License, License model
vitepress.dev/ - 2026-10-18: wikidata
www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137265963 - 2026-10-18: Built on, Current major version
registry.npmjs.org/vitepress/latest - 2026-10-18: Runtime, Minimum runtime, Install with, Runs as
vitepress.dev/guide/getting-started - 2026-10-18: Multilingual
vitepress.dev/guide/i18n - 2026-10-18: Contributors
api.github.com/repos/vuejs/vitepress/contributors?anon=true - 2026-10-18: npm downloads a week
api.npmjs.org/downloads/point/last-week/vitepress - 2026-10-25: Sites using it (HTTP Archive)
cdn.httparchive.org/v1/technologies - 2026-10-25: Dependent repositories, Dependent packages
packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/vitepress