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NuxtLabs is joining Vercel

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Re: NuxtLabs is joining Vercel

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Post by aosaigh »

Honestly, this is terrible news. A number of the core team of Nuxt.js are joining Vercel and NuxtLabs itself is acquired by Vercel.

I choose Nuxt.js and Nuxt UI Pro specifically because they aren't Vercel products. I built two SAAS MVPs over the last year based on this, now I'll have to wait and see what Vercel (their competitor) wants to do with it.

Re: NuxtLabs is joining Vercel

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Post by MortyWaves »

Nuxt has always been a strange tool that doesn’t really fit well into any good use case, unless your only experience is Vue and Nuxt.

Hard to see the real reason for Vercel to do this. The pessimist in me wonders if perhaps they are hoping to influence how Vue is developed in the same way they now influence how React is developed after hiring several React team members.

But even that doesn’t seem that likely considering the relatively tiny Vue market share and microscopic still Nuxt market share.

I also consider its “community” to be a strange place too. It’s on Discord, and a couple of years ago common internet abbreviations were considered ban worthy rule-breaking offences.

Even the word “lmao” would get you an instant warning from a bot. The framework itself and its oddball community were enough poor experiences for me to stop using it pretty quickly.

Re: NuxtLabs is joining Vercel

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Post by _bent »

MortyWaves wrote: post #4

Nuxt has always been a strange tool that doesn’t really fit well into any good use case, unless your only experience is Vue and Nuxt. Hard to see the real reason for Vercel to do this. The pessimist in me wonders if perhaps they are hoping to influence how Vue is developed in the same way they now influence how React is developed after hiring several React team members. But even that doesn’t seem that likely consider…

It's an aquihire

Re: NuxtLabs is joining Vercel

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Post by threetonesun »

MortyWaves wrote: post #4

Nuxt has always been a strange tool that doesn’t really fit well into any good use case, unless your only experience is Vue and Nuxt. Hard to see the real reason for Vercel to do this. The pessimist in me wonders if perhaps they are hoping to influence how Vue is developed in the same way they now influence how React is developed after hiring several React team members. But even that doesn’t seem that likely consider…

Get Nuxt people paying to deploy on Vercel and over time force the user base to Next and React would be my guess.

Re: NuxtLabs is joining Vercel

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Post by pier25 »

MortyWaves wrote: post #4

Nuxt has always been a strange tool that doesn’t really fit well into any good use case, unless your only experience is Vue and Nuxt. Hard to see the real reason for Vercel to do this. The pessimist in me wonders if perhaps they are hoping to influence how Vue is developed in the same way they now influence how React is developed after hiring several React team members. But even that doesn’t seem that likely consider…

> doesn’t really fit well into any good use case

I agree.

If you want an SPA just use Vue's official router. It's getting better now thanks to Eduardo working on file-based router, data loaders, Pinia colada, etc.

If you want a static site or MPA, Astro really seems like a better choice than Nuxt.

https://uvr.esm.is/

https://pinia-colada.esm.dev/

Re: NuxtLabs is joining Vercel

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Post by impulser_ »

aosaigh wrote: post #3

Honestly, this is terrible news. A number of the core team of Nuxt.js are joining Vercel and NuxtLabs itself is acquired by Vercel. I choose Nuxt.js and Nuxt UI Pro specifically because they aren't Vercel products. I built two SAAS MVPs over the last year based on this, now I'll have to wait and see what Vercel (their competitor) wants to do with it.

Vercel isn't a competitor to Nuxt. Vercel benefits from allowing any frontend framework to be deployed on their service.

All you have to look at is Svelte, which Vercel hired all the developer of, and that turned out to be a great thing. Svelte and SvelteKit are better than ever and nothing they have done since has shown to be forced by Vercel.

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