VuePress

What VuePress is

VuePress is a free, MIT-licensed static site generator for documentation, blogs, and other static sites. It centers authoring on Markdown, with pages compiled into HTML and processed as Vue components so authors can use Vue templates, components, and dynamic content in Markdown files. During a build, VuePress pre-renders pages as HTML; after loading, the site runs as a single-page application. The default theme is designed for technical documentation and provides search, customizable navigation and sidebars, and support for Algolia Search. Markdown features include tables of contents, custom containers, line highlighting and numbering, imported code snippets, and GitHub Flavored Markdown tables and strikethrough. Authors can configure or add markdown-it extensions. VuePress supports Vite and Webpack without extra bundler configuration and provides an official plugin API alongside official and community plugins. Site locales can be configured, though multilingual support depends on the theme. Deployment guidance covers GitHub Pages, GitLab Pages, Firebase, Heroku, Netlify, and Vercel. Setup requires Node.js v20.9.0 or later and a package manager such as pnpm, Yarn, or npm. The getting-started guide describes VuePress v2 as a release candidate, with possible minor configuration and API breaking changes between releases.