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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Our Guests

Daniel Roe

• Bluesky
• Web
• YouTube
• Twitch

Sébastien Chopin

• NuxtLabs
• Nuxt
• Personal Website
• Bluesky

Chapters

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

Your Hosts

Alexander Lichter

• Bluesky
• YouTube
• Website

Michael Thiessen

• Twitter
• YouTube
• Website

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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
• YouTube
• Website

Michael Thiessen

• Twitter
• YouTube
• Website

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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.

Enjoy the Episode!

Our Guest

Daniel Roe

• Bluesky
• Web
• YouTube
• Twitch

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

Your Hosts

Alexander Lichter

• Bluesky
• YouTube
• Website

Michael Thiessen

• Twitter
• YouTube
• Website

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