Unfortunately Fractal is not currently under active development. However The 1.x (master) branch is stable and is being used in many projects. Documentation for this version is available at https://fractal.build.
The 2.0 beta branch is not recommended for use as there are many outstanding issues + bugs, limited documentation and no active development at this time.
If anyone is interested in becoming a maintainer or taking over the project please email mark@allmarkedup.com to discuss further.
Fractal is a tool to help you build and document web component libraries and then integrate them into your projects.
Read the Fractal documentation at http://fractal.build/guide.
Component (or pattern) libraries are a way of designing and building websites in a modular fashion, breaking up the UI into small, reusable chunks that can then later be assembled in a variety of ways to build anything from larger components right up to whole pages.
Fractal helps you assemble, preview and document website component libraries, and then integrate them into your web sites, apps and build processes to create joined up, 'living' projects.
Fractal can be run from the command line or integrated into your project via its API.
Check out the the Fractal documentation for more information.
There is no 'official' demo for Fractal up yet, but bits.24ways.org (repository: https://github.com/24ways/frontend) is an excellent example of a component library built on Fractal. Kudos to @paulrobertlloyd for his great work!
Fractal requires Node.js v4.4.7+
It is the intention that Fractal’s Node.js version support will track the latest Node LTS release version.
Fractal is a project that has recently evolved rapidly and organically from a proof-of-concept prototype into a more stable, mature tool. Because of this it's currently pretty far behind where it should be in terms of test coverage. Any contributions on this front would be most welcome!
Existing tests can be run using the npm test command.
Fractal is developed and maintained by Danielle Huntrods, Mark Perkins and all our excellent contributors.
Ongoing support by Clearleft makes this project possible. Thank you!
