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! Enjoy the Episode! Our Guests Daniel Roe Bluesky Web YouTube Twitch Sébasti...
Jul 10, 2025•31 min•Ep. 61
👉 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. Enjoy the Episode! Chapters (00:00) - Welcome to DejaVue (00:48) - Vite 7 without breaking changes (01:53) - Node Version dropped (03:13...
Jul 08, 2025•26 min•Ep. 60
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 significa...
Jun 15, 2025•41 min•Ep. 59
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, ...
Jun 05, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 58
In this episode of DejaVue, Michael and Alex chat with Matt Perry, the creator of Motion (formerly Framer Motion), about animations in web development. Matt talks about his journey from designing gaming magazines as a kid to becoming a full-time developer, sharing his experiences with ActionScript, jQuery, and how Motion was born. They discuss how simple and powerful Motion's API is, its ability to work with different frameworks, and how it stacks up against other animation libraries like GSAP a...
May 15, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 57
In this episode of DejaVue, Alex and Michael are joined by Jared Wilcurt, UI architect and open source contributor, to get knee-deep into the world of testing in Vue.js, especially Snapshot Testing. Jared shares his journey from React frustration to Vue enthusiasm, and explains how he identified gaps in Vue's testing ecosystem that led to the creation of his Vue 3 Snapshot Serializer library. No matter if you are a testing novice, wondering why you should bother with tests at all , or an experie...
Apr 22, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 56
In this episode of DejaVue, Alex sits down with James Garbutt, open source maintainer and lead of the e18e initiative. James shares his journey from writing web scrapers as a teenager to maintaining critical JavaScript libraries like parse5 or Chokidar and eventually co-creating the ecosystem performance initiative. The conversation is then all around e18e, which aims to improve performance across the JavaScript ecosystem through three pillars: Cleaning up dependency trees Speeding up popular pa...
Apr 13, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 55
Join hosts Michael Thiessen and Alexander Lichter for a special episode of DejaVue - a fascinating panel discussion on open source sustainability with three open source enthusiasts: Daniel Roe (Nuxt Team Lead), Chad Whitacre (Head of Open Source at Sentry), and Rijk van Zanten (CTO and co-founder of Directus). The panelists dive deep into what sustainability truly means in open source and get deep into the weeds of different licensing models, debating whether open source functions as a gift econ...
Apr 06, 2025•1 hr•Ep. 54
Nuxt 3.16 dropped and it's packed with goodies! In this episode, Alex and Michael break down all the cool stuff in this release that'll make your Nuxt development smoother. They dive into the new command to initialize a Nuxt application, the performance-game-changing lazy hydration support that'll boost your app's performance, and named layer aliases (that you've been waiting for). Plus, huge performance improvements, better error messages with Nitro 2.11 and debugging improvements that'll save ...
Mar 28, 2025•42 min•Ep. 53
In episode 52 of DejaVue (yes, it is a whole year ), Dennis Adriaansen joins Michael and Alex to discuss data visualization in Vue.js. Dennis shares insights about building chart components, his experience with different charting libraries, and introduces his own Vue charting library. They explore topics like chart customization, performance considerations, and integrating charts into dashboards. The conversation also gets into broader topics such as open source sustainability, UI libraries, and...
Mar 21, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 52
Vite is amazing, I think we can all agree on that statement. But what is Vite actually !? Why is it so great, faster than webpack and the "de-facto standard of the web" already? Alex is joined by Vite Core Team member Matias Capeletto, better known as Patak, to talk about all these questions. Learn about the future of Vite, how it uses two bundlers under the hood and why almost every framework adopted it. Enjoy the episode! Enjoy the episode! Our Guest Matias "Patak" Capeletto Vite Website Blues...
Mar 13, 2025•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 51
For episode number 50 ( not 51 Alex! ), Angular GDE and JetBrains DevRel Jan-Niklas Wortmann joins the show. Together with Michael and Alex they dive into Jan-Niklas' angle of being a DevRel, how framework communities are different and why people should give WebStorm a try. Beyond that, Volar and LSPs are also covered, as well as some new announcements! Enjoy the episode Our Guest Jan-Niklas Wortmann Website Weekly Devs Brew Bluesky Chapters (00:00) - Welcome to DejaVue (01:19) - Guest Intro (03...
Mar 06, 2025•51 min•Ep. 50
In this episode, Michael and Alex are joined by Aaron Francis, software developer, content creator, and co-founder of Try Hard Studios. Besides covering Aaron's journey into programming, they dive into Fusion, a new library that Aaron has been working on which will fuse your Laravel backend together with your Vue frontend, allowing you to write PHP and Vue in the same file. The three developers dive deep into the technical details of Fusion, how it works under the hood, and also how the communit...
Feb 27, 2025•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 49
AI is a hot topic in the tech industry, but how does it intersect with Vue.js? In this special episode, Michael and Alex host a panel at Vue.js Nation 2025 and are joined by two amazing guests: Patrick van Everdingen , AI Solutions Engineer Daniel Kelly , Lead Instructor at Vue School The four developers discuss how AI and Vue can work together. Will we all lose our jobs to AI? How does AI might influence the job market and which tips for Vue.js developers are the most important to know regardin...
Feb 20, 2025•48 min•Ep. 48
If you've listened to the last episode, you know what is coming next! It is time to get take a Vue at the other host of this podcast. Michael is asking Alex all around his past - from how we got into programming and web development, if university was worth it and how he got into the Nuxt Core Team. Also don't miss out how Minecraft is part of the history, what non-tech job Alex would do if programming wouldn't be in the cards, and why is GitHub account is over 14 years old. Enjoy the episode! Ch...
Feb 13, 2025•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 47
The guest of this episode is one you've heard on here quite often - but do you also know him well? Together, we take a look (or Vue 👀) at Michael Thiessen, co-host of this podcast. Learn how his average day looks like, how he became a full-time content creator and find out what he did before getting into Web Development, plus insights on how he created his first course and dealt with impostor syndrome. Enjoy the episode! Chapters (00:00) - Welcome to DejaVue (00:39) - Concept of this episode (0...
Feb 06, 2025•57 min•Ep. 46
Together with the FormKit author Justin Schroeder, Michael and Alex discuss the challenges of building forms on the internet. While it seems like a simple task, forms can be complex and pretty time-consuming. Especially when it is more than a Newsletter or Contact Form. Justin shares his experience building FormKit (multiple times), a form library for Vue.js, and how it can help developers build forms faster and more efficiently. From Accessibility to actually covering edge cases such as form hy...
Jan 30, 2025•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 45
After our recap episode on 2024 , it is time to look into 2025 - and share our predictions and even some rather spicy hot takes what developers can expect in 2025. Of course, Michael and Alex once again have the Nuxt team Lead Daniel Roe on the show to get some insights on his takes as well! Find out more about their thoughts on Vue Vapor, Nuxt 4, Conferences, Alien Signals, Vue 4, Nitro and many more topics that will be (most likely) relevant in this year. While the focus is mainly Vue and Nuxt...
Jan 23, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 44
Of course, we can't fully start into 2025 with a little ReVue of the past year. And to make sure to catch all the highlights, Alex is joined by Daniel Roe, full-time open source developer and lead of the Nuxt team to go through some notable events of 2024 in the Vue and Nuxt ecosystem. In addition to the shining moments of 2024, don't miss out a deep dive into web fonts, learn why Nuxt 4 isn't out yet if you didn't know already and maybe even get a slight glimpse into 2025 and Nuxt 5. Enjoy the ...
Jan 16, 2025•56 min•Ep. 43
In this episode, Michael talks with Adam Jahr, Founder of Vue Mastery, all about creating technical content - and how this is relevant for you as a developer. Tune in and figure out how Adam founded Vue Mastery, what his biggest learnings from his Coding Bootcamp times were and learn key tips that can set your content apart from others! And as a bonus - learn what creating content, regardless the format, has to do with Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings. Ready? Then wait no further Enjoy the Epis...
Jan 09, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 42
To start the year light and fun, Michael and Alex are joined by Rijk van Zanten, the creator of Directus. Of course we talk about his journey into web development, the Vue.js ecosystem, what Directus is and why he chose Vue over other frameworks for it's extensible frontend. Further, Rijk shares his thoughts on the Vue.js job market and how his "Quadruple Migration", over to the Composition API, Pinia, Vue 3 and Vite, went. As a cherry on top - this all started *very* early in the development cy...
Jan 02, 2025•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 41
This DejaVue episode comes as a little special! As a belated Christmas present, we got everything, literally everything that was discussed on this podcast about one big topic: Composition API vs. Options API . A lot of our previous guests had their own takes on the two APIs - and some might surprise you! So, why not tuning in and hear fifteen people talk about their opinions, insights and suggestions when it comes to using their preferred API in Vue - and why. Oh, and yes - there is even a littl...
Dec 26, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 40
The second half of the conversation with Sumit Kumar focuses all on the technical side of his SaaS. At first, Michael and Alex talk about Sumit's experience with the migration from Nuxt 2 to Nuxt 3 - and we all know this isn't an easy one. Further, the Composition API vs. the Options API, as well as structuring code and writing good composables are discussed. And of course, the question if Sumit considered rewriting the application based on another tech stack was part of it too - he had really g...
Dec 20, 2024•41 min•Ep. 39
In this episode of DejaVue, Alex and Michael are joined by Sumit Kumar , the founder of Parqet. Sumit shares his journey from getting into Web Development and Vue.js over to working at Stripe and eventually founding Parqet, a (German) portfolio tracker SaaS. Topics covered in the first part of our conversation include a lot of business insights, such as the transition from being a developer to being a founder, the challenges and benefits of bootstrapping, as well as the importance of marketing. ...
Dec 12, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 38
For the first time, the DejaVue Podcast goes "live"! Alex and Michael met up at VueConf Toronto and could do a whole DejaVue episode on stage. Of course, this is even more fun with guests, so they are joined by four speakers of the Conference. Evan You , Creator of Vue, Vite, Rolldown and Founder of VoidZero, Daniel Roe , Lead of the Nuxt Team, Sigrid Huemer , Software Engineer at Sentry , and John Leider , Creator of Vuetify . But that's not the end! The audience could ask questions to the whol...
Dec 05, 2024•43 min•Ep. 37
Security is a topic that is often overlooked in the frontend world. But at least for you all - no longer! To make sure we cover Security for Vue and Nuxt applications as broad as possible, Michael and Alex are joined by Jakub Andrzejewski, who is not only a Senior Frontend Developer but also author of the Nuxt Security Module. We cover not only the module but also how to avoid common security mistakes as a Vue developer and how to protect your applications from vulnerabilities, and which are the...
Nov 28, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 36
All of you have seen users do weird things with your application and running into strange scenarios - who can't relate to this? For this and many other reasons, the right way of error handling is important in you application. Join Michael and Alex on a discussion of the different ways one can handle errors in their application. That includes not always showing an error page, but also handling errors request-based or component-based! On that note, error messages and how to write decent ones that ...
Nov 25, 2024•29 min•Ep. 35
Data fetching is a crucial part of any web application . In this episode of DejaVue, we discuss the different ways to fetch data in Vue.js and Nuxt.js, and how to cache it. We also talk about the experimental Suspense feature in Vue.js and how it can be used to improve the user experience, as well as how to handle third-party scripts in your application. In addition, Nuxt's data fetching options are discussed, including the $fetch method, useFetch, useAsyncData and the useNuxtData composable. Fi...
Nov 15, 2024•46 min•Ep. 34
Alex is accompanied by the wonderful CJ Reynolds in this episode of DejaVue. The Senior Creator at Syntax.fm brings not only Vue experience but also a history of Angular JS and React, as well as various other technologies. The two content creators talk about how CJ became a senior creator at the well-known Syntax.fm podcast and how it is different from Streaming on Twitch and his previous content creation processes. Further, CJ gives insights on how the Denver Vue meetup evolved (now the DenverS...
Nov 08, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 33
In this episode of DejaVue, Michael is joined by special guest Simone Cuomo . Together, they discuss how to " get started " with Vue and also topics around general developer culture, such as in-office vs. remote work and the power of mentorship. Simone also shares learnings and insights from the recent Vuejs.de Conference - as well as his hot take about Vue.js (Hint: it is related to the Composition API!) And of course, recent topics like AI and whether it is good or bad for beginners shouldn't ...
Oct 31, 2024•51 min•Ep. 32
