DejaVue

It was silent for a while on the DejaVue front. Now, Alex and Michael get back to it for.. yet another episode?
Hear more about why it took so long and what the future plans of the podcast are.
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In this special episode of DejaVue, Alexander and Michael are joined by Daniel Roe and Sébastien Chopin to discuss the recent acquisition of NuxtLabs by Vercel. Questions like "Was Nuxt just sold", "How much influence has Vercel", and "What is Vercel excepting from the deal" are answered.
If you wonder what impact the deal has on Nuxt, you as a user and developer, as well as the open-source community, you should tune in! 
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Daniel Roe
Bluesky
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Sébastien Chopin
NuxtLabs
Nuxt
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Links and Resources

Announcement on NuxtLabs.com
Skew Protection Nitro Issue
Daniel Roe's Reddit AMA
The Future of Nuxt GitHub Discussion
Pooya's Nitro Announcement

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Alexander Lichter

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Michael Thiessen

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👉 Don't forget to join ViteConf on October 9-10 in Amsterdam
In this episode of DejaVue, Michael and Alexander look into the major release of Vite 7, including the move to ESM-only, dropping Node 18 support, and adopting the Baseline browser target.
They also discuss the evolving Environment API, upcoming changes in Rolldown-Vite, new Vite dev tools, and more.
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Chapters

(00:00) - Welcome to DejaVue

(00:48) - Vite 7 without breaking changes

(01:53) - Node Version dropped

(03:13) - ESM-only and Module Formats

(09:04) - What does ECMA and GIF mean?

(10:51) - Browser target to Baseline Wide Available

(14:31) - Environment API

(16:14) - Rolldown-Vite

(17:39) - Cleaning up APIs

(18:11) - Vite Dev Tools

(21:41) - ViteConf

(22:57) - Vite Plugin Vue Beta

(25:04) - Wrapping Up

Links and Resources
Vite Announcement post
require(esm) in Node
tsdown
obuild
fdir PR
DejaVue #E058 - The History of Nuxt and NuxtLabs (with Sébastien Chopin)
DejaVue #E051 - Vite Inside Out (with Matias "Patak" Capeletto)
Vite DevTools Preview (screenshot)
Vite Plugin Vue 6.0 (not beta anymore)

Your Hosts

Alexander Lichter

Bluesky
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Michael Thiessen

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Big news in the Nuxt ecosystem. While you out there already know what has been announced - some of us didn't. Luckily, Daniel Roe, Head of the Nuxt team joins this DejaVue episode and discusses the highly anticipated "double trouble": Not one, but two major versions for Nuxt are on the horizon.
After over a year of delays, Daniel reveals the strategic decision to release Nuxt 4 in less than a month from now, followed by Nuxt 5 which will include the long-awaited Nitro 3 integration and significant Vite improvements.
The episode covers the smooth migration experience early adopters reported already, the philosophy behind careful breaking changes, and how the team plans to maintain a yearly major release cycle moving forward.
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Daniel Roe
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Chapters

(00:00) - Welcome to DejaVue

(01:19) - The big topic

(02:41) - What are the release plans?

(06:47) - Two major versions soon?

(09:28) - Early adopters of compatibilityVersion 4

(11:56) - Depending on other dependencies and versions bumps

(13:45) - Is bumping the minimum Node version a breaking change?

(16:33) - A Quick Nitro TL;DR

(20:46) - Nitro in other frameworks

(25:20) - Why Nuxt 4 now?

(28:41) - LTS support Plans

(29:53) - Nuxt Bridge

(31:46) - Release Dates and skipping Nuxt 4 altogether

(33:14) - We need Release names!

(35:53) - Release Dates for Nuxt 4 and 5

(40:00) - Wrapping Up

Links and Resources

Roadmap to v4 blog post
DejaVue #E043 - The Year in ReVue (with Daniel Roe)
DejaVue #E044 - Our Predictions for Vue and Nuxt in 2025 (with Daniel Roe)
DejaVue #E013 - The Road to Nuxt 4 (with Daniel Roe)
Daniel's PR migrating Elk
Nuxt 4 Migration Guide
DejaVue #E003 - Nitro: The Next Generation Server Toolkit
Srvx
Michael's Nuxt Release Date Comic
Alex' Nuxt 4/5 video

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Alexander Lichter

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Michael Thiessen

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Join Alex and Michael with special guest Sébastien Chopin, creator of Nuxt.js and CEO of NuxtLabs, to learn more about the origins and evolution of the Vue-based meta framework. Sébastien shares valuable lessons from open source, how he came to create Nuxt.js in the first place and which challenges came with it.
In the second part of the episode, they cover Sébastien's company NuxtLabs - from its inception over to taking Venture Capital and products, such as NuxtHub or Nuxt UI Pro.
Eventually, the NuxtLabs CEO also outlines how they handle sponsorships of maintainers, and what the future holds for Nuxt and NuxtLabs.
Enjoy the Episode!

Our Guest
Sébastien Chopin
NuxtLabs
Nuxt
Personal Website
Bluesky

Chapters

(00:00) - Welcome to DejaVue

(01:16) - How did you get into programming?

(04:45) - The birth of Nuxt.js

(07:43) - The Elevator Pitch for Nuxt

(10:16) - When not to use Nuxt

(11:20) - Nuxt as Multi Bundler Framework

(12:37) - How does Nuxt scale (in Enterprise)?

(16:04) - Lessons Learned from building Nuxt

(19:47) - How to compare frameworks fairly?

(23:20) - Frameworks converging

(24:22) - Nuxt.js supporting React?

(29:06) - The creation of NuxtLabs

(33:50) - Products of NuxtLabs

(37:11) - Why going all in on Cloudflare for NuxtHub

(41:50) - Vite Environment API

(45:34) - The difference between Nuxt and NuxtLabs

(51:56) - Is Nuxt a VC-backed framework?

(53:51) - Sponsoring Core Maintainers

(56:07) - Freemium in Nuxt

(57:06) - Sneak Peek of the NuxtLabs Roadmap

(59:51) - Where can people find you?

Links and Resources

Nuxt
Intro to Nuxt Layers
Nitro
Reactivue
inclusion-vapor
DejaVue #E044 - Our Predictions for Vue and Nuxt in 2025 (with Daniel Roe)
Volta
Nuxt UI *
Nuxt Governance
Nuxt Studio
NuxtHub
Laravel Vapor
Cloudflare
DejaVue #E051 - Vite Inside Out (with Matias "Patak" Capeletto)
Strapi

Your Hosts

Michael Thiessen

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Alexander Lichter

Bluesky
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