# Vuex [](https://circleci.com/gh/vuejs/vuex) [](https://www.npmjs.com/package/vuex)
> Flux-inspired Application Architecture for Vue.js.
- [Documentation](http://vuejs.github.io/vuex/)
- [Great introduction and explanation by @skyronic](http://skyronic.com/2016/01/03/vuex-basics-tutorial/) (using outdated 0.3.0 API, but still worth a read!)
- [Vuex introduction video - James Browne from London Vue.js Meetup #1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1KHL-TX3qs)
- [Feathers.js example using Vue.js and Vuex on the client to maintain state](https://github.com/niallobrien/feathers-chat-example) by [Niall O'Brien](https://github.com/niallobrien) (Twitter: [@niall_obrien](https://twitter.com/niall_obrien))
## Examples
- [Counter](https://github.com/vuejs/vuex/tree/master/examples/counter)
- [Counter with Hot Reload](https://github.com/vuejs/vuex/tree/master/examples/counter-hot)
- [TodoMVC](https://github.com/vuejs/vuex/tree/master/examples/todomvc)
- [Flux Chat](https://github.com/vuejs/vuex/tree/master/examples/chat)
- [Shopping Cart](https://github.com/vuejs/vuex/tree/master/examples/shopping-cart)
Running the examples:
``` bash
$ npm install
$ npm run counter # run the counter example
```
See [npm scripts](https://github.com/vuejs/vuex/blob/master/package.json#L11-L15) for all example npm scripts.
## Principles
- Terse
- Testable
- Reactive
- Single State Tree
- Hot Reloading
- Time Travel (with [vue-devtools](https://github.com/vuejs/vue-devtools) support)
## License
[MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)