Clarify relative status w/ Vitepress

[NiloCK]

From https://vuepress.vuejs.org/guide/introduction.html#vitepress

VitePress is the little brother of VuePress. It's also created and maintained by our Vue.js team. It's even more lightweight and faster than VuePress. However, as a tradeoff, it's more opinionated and less configurable. For example, it does not support plugins. But VitePress is powerful enough to make your content online if you don't need advanced customizations.

But from https://vitepress.dev/guide/what-is-vitepress#what-about-vuepress

VitePress is the spiritual successor of VuePress. The original VuePress was based on Vue 2 and webpack. With Vue 3 and Vite under the hood, VitePress provides significantly better DX, better production performance, a more polished default theme, and a more flexible customization API. ... the Vue team has decided to focus on VitePress as the main recommended SSG in the long run.

So I should use Vitepress for my greenfield docs site that may want to internally load vue / vite based components or applications?

It is extremely admirable to maintain documentation and functionality for vuepress, but if focus is shifted to vitepress, the vuepress docs could be a fair bit clearer about vuepress being a legacy library with (probably?) a higher risk of future deprecation.

[Mister-Hope]

the Vue team has decided

not everyone

VuePress is now maintained by VuePress team, I.e.: no funding from Vue, and mainly community

[NiloCK]

Thanks for the clarification.

VuePress is now maintained by VuePress team, I.e.: no funding from Vue, and mainly community

The vuepress.vuejs.org subdomain hosting is a bit misleading on this front - gives a pretty strong impression that it's supported by the same org.

[meteorlxy]

Thanks for the reminder. Only VuePress v1 is depreacated and become a legacy project. Now this repo and @vuepress org is for the brand new VuePress.

The introduction had been there for a long time. I just updated it:

docs/docs/guide/introduction.md

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	## VuePress and VitePress: The Connection
	VitePress can be seen as the younger sibling of VuePress. Both were originally created by Evan You, the author of Vue.js. Today, VitePress is maintained by the Vue.js team, while VuePress is maintained by the VuePress team.
	The history goes like this: VuePress v0 and v1 were built on top of Webpack. Later, when Evan created Vite, he started a new static site generator based on it — VitePress — reusing some ideas and code from VuePress. At the same time, the community forked the VuePress v2 branch, continued its development, and added support for both Webpack and Vite.
	At one point, we discussed merging the two projects under the VuePress brand. However, over time their goals and technical directions diverged. As a result, the Vue.js team chose to focus on VitePress, while the community — now the VuePress team — took over VuePress and continues to drive its development forward.
	As a user, you can choose either project depending on your needs. VitePress is tightly integrated with Vite. VuePress, on the other hand, is designed to support different bundlers: it supports Webpack and Vite today, and open to any other bundlers. In addition, VuePress has an official [ecosystem](https://ecosystem.vuejs.press/) project and provides a wide range of plugins, making it easier to build sites with features.

Also submited the corresponding updates to the vitepress documentation.

[NiloCK]

Modifications on both repos are good improvements. Thanks much.