Vue Basic

It's a demo from the example repo, not a feature

If you've ever poked around the official ComfyUI-Example-Nodes repo, you've met this node. "Vue Basic" is the template's showcase for building custom Vue widgets - a little drawing pad with a pen, a brush size, and a clear-canvas button, outputting an image. HouseKeeper was scaffolded from that example repo, and the demo node rode along for the ride. It was never HouseKeeper's own feature, and the author never wired it up.

You can see the un-finishedness in the schema: one required input, custom_vue_component_basic, whose type is CUSTOM_VUE_COMPONENT_BASIC - the custom-widget hook that lets a node render a Vue component - and one IMAGE output. The pack's locale file still carries the demo's strings ("Pen", "Clear Canvas", "Brush Size", "this is a pen"). In the source, the Vue extension is commented out with a note that literally reads "uncomment if you need Vue components," and the .py placeholder was deleted in v0.7.0. Current versions ship no vue-basic at all.

What it's good for (besides nothing)

Honestly, nothing in a workflow. It generates no images despite the IMAGE output, it doesn't draw anything, and it isn't a component of the alignment panel. Its one genuinely useful job is diagnostic: it tells you what HouseKeeper is. This is a frontend-only extension - zero backend nodes, zero Python dependencies, no model files. The "nodes" you'll find listed for it are template scaffolding that the real product never needed, because the real product (the floating alignment and color panel) is pure browser JavaScript.

So if you're a beginner who found this page wondering whether you're missing out: you're not. Don't search for it, don't build anything on it, and if an old workflow contains a vue-basic node, delete it - it's dead weight that does nothing and never did. The official Vue example, if you actually want to learn custom Vue widgets, lives in ComfyUI-Example-Nodes where it's maintained, not here.

Install

No separate step. It was bundled with HouseKeeper (and no longer is, as of v0.7.0). Installing the pack itself is the usual git clone into custom_nodes or a ComfyUI Manager search for "HouseKeeper", and there's nothing heavy about it - no pip installs, no downloads, just a restart.