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

• Twitter
• YouTube
• Website

Alexander Lichter

• Bluesky
• YouTube
• Website

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