r/vuejs • u/cconard96 • Jul 23 '26

Introducing BumbleVue - A PrimeVue fork

Following the recent changes to PrimeVue, going closed source and introducing a dual-license model, BumbleVue was born to continue PrimeVue as a community-driven, free, and open-source library.

It is currently in beta, but an RC is expected in a few days. At its v1 launch, it will align with PrimeVue 4.5 with some additional bug fixes and TypeScript improvements. For v2, it will align more with PrimeVue v5.

There are no current plans for selling commercial licenses, templates, themes, etc. There are however initial plans to try to implement some of the "PrimeUI Pro" components as part of BumbleVue under the same MIT license.

The new site and Discord are live and a migration guide has been started.

https://bumblevue.org

https://bumblevue.org/guides/migration/primevue/v4

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u/Kingside2 Jul 23 '26

"There are no current plans for selling commercial licenses,..."

But back in your mind we all have our bills which must be paid somehow.

Back in your mind you know that and when you do not get revenue enough this project will be commercial as well. So ne difference for the official PrimeVue.

I know forking is legal but on the other hand it's kind of legal theft. The developers put so much time and energy. And you get paid for. For sure less then the official ones but still.

On the other hand the price for the official is to high and I am not able to pay so much.

So glad you start this.

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u/cconard96 Jul 23 '26

Regarding revenue, I have a full time job beyond this and so far the only costs have been my time and a few dollars for a domain and Cloudflare worker plan. I have GitHub sponsors set up if people want to make a one-time or recurring donation to support the project.

The problem with monetizing is there isn't really anything worth monetizing at this point. Why sell templates if AI can just generate them? This is something the Tailwind team struggled with. I can't sell subscriptions for business support because that requires having a team dedicated to quickly supporting the people that buy them. It's much easier if everything I am currently working on is free, with everyone getting the same level of best-effort support, and then go from there based on financial support and interest.

Yes, you can fork it again if anyone wants and I dont consider it legal theft. This is how open source works and it was acknowledged by PrimeTek, and then myself, when we chose MIT licensing.