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vuecomponent/ant-design-vue

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TLDR

A library of pre-built, professional UI components for Vue apps. Drop in buttons, forms, tables, and more instead of building from scratch.

Mindmap

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    What it does
      Pre-built UI components
      Enterprise design system
      Business app ready
    Tech stack
      Vue 2 and Vue 3
      TypeScript
      JavaScript
    Use cases
      Admin dashboards
      Data entry forms
      Internal tools
      Business applications
    Features
      Buttons and menus
      Tables and forms
      Date pickers
      Electron support
    Getting started
      npm install
      VS Code extension
      MIT licensed

Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Build an admin dashboard with pre-styled tables, forms, and navigation menus.

USE CASE 2

Create a data entry application with date pickers, input fields, and validation components.

USE CASE 3

Develop an internal business tool with consistent professional styling across all screens.

USE CASE 4

Package a web app as a desktop program using Electron with ready-made UI components.

Tech stack

Vue 2Vue 3TypeScriptJavaScript

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min
Use freely for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

In plain English

Ant Design Vue is a library of ready-made user interface components for building web applications with Vue, a popular JavaScript framework for creating interactive browser-based interfaces. Think of it as a box of pre-built building blocks, buttons, forms, tables, date pickers, menus, and many more, that you can drop into your app rather than designing and coding each one from scratch. The components follow the Ant Design visual system, a design language originally developed for enterprise-grade desktop applications. The goal is professional, consistent-looking software that is appropriate for business tools: dashboards, admin panels, data entry screens, and similar internal or customer-facing products. The library supports both Vue 2 and Vue 3, and works in modern browsers as well as Electron (a way to package web apps as desktop programs) and server-side rendering (where the page is generated on the server before it reaches the browser, which helps with speed and search engine visibility). You would reach for Ant Design Vue when building a business application in Vue and you want a comprehensive set of professionally designed components without spending time on visual design. Installing it is one command via npm or yarn (standard JavaScript package managers). There is also a VS Code extension available that adds autocomplete hints for the component names and properties while you write code. The project is open-source under the MIT license, written primarily in Vue and TypeScript.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Show me how to install Ant Design Vue and add a button component to my Vue app.
Prompt 2
I need to build a form with date picker, dropdown, and submit button using Ant Design Vue. What's the simplest way?
Prompt 3
How do I use Ant Design Vue components in a server-side rendered Vue application?
Prompt 4
Set up Ant Design Vue in a Vue 3 project and create a basic data table with sorting.
Prompt 5
What Ant Design Vue components should I use to build an admin dashboard layout?
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