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Weekly Vue News #231

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Hi 👋

The holidays are nearly over, and I'm excited to dive into the new year! My first goal is to release v2 of my Nuxt Starter Kit — stay tuned for some great updates.

Enjoy this issue and have a lovely week ☀️

Vue

📕 Why Your Vue App Is Reactive Too Much (and How to Fix It)

👉🏻 In larger Vue applications, excessive reactivity can quietly become a performance bottleneck.

Nuxt

📕 Nuxt & Cloudflare Queues: Building a Data Sync Pipeline using Vectorize

👉🏻 Learn how to handle background tasks in a standalone Nuxt application using Cloudflare Queues.

📕 Securing Nuxt API Routes with Nitro Utils

👉🏻 Learn how to set up authentication in Nuxt using Nuxt Auth Utils and Nitro.

🛠️ Nuxt Safe Runtime Config

👉🏻 Validate Nuxt runtime config at build time using Zod, Valibot, ArkType, or any Standard Schema compatible library.

Launch Your Nuxt App in Minutes - Not Weeks I built this starter kit because I kept rewriting the same boilerplate for every new Nuxt project.

📅 Events

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🧑🏻‍💻 In Other News

📕 The Concise TypeScript Book

👉🏻 The free and open-source edition of this book focuses on clear, practical guidance for effective TypeScript development.

📕 Adding Types Vs Type-Safe Code

👉🏻 TypeScript lets you specify types in lots of different ways.

👉🏻 But it will only be checked during build-time and even there, TypeScript does not check everything.

🛠️ picknplace.js

👉🏻 A fresh take on the idea of drag-and-drop.

🛠️ OpenWorkers

👉🏻 An open-source runtime that allows devs to self-host Cloudflare Workers-compatible JavaScript in V8 isolates.

😂 Fun

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Weekly Vue News #230

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Hi 👋

I hope you're enjoying the holiday season as much as I am! Wishing you a happy and successful New Year 2026 🎉

Take this time to relax, recharge, and spend quality moments with your loved ones.

Enjoy this issue and see you in the new year!

Vue

🛠️ Vue 3.6.0-beta.1

👉🏻 Contains the intended feature set for Vapor Mode and it now has feature parity with all stable features in Virtual DOM mode (excluding Suspense).

🛠️ Vue Language Tools 3.2

👉🏻 It includes 20+ new features and delivered 70+ bug fixes.

Nuxt

📕 Special Nuxt Features on an opt-in basis*

👉🏻 Extra Nuxt config options that go further and could help unlock new possibilities.

📕 Build an AI Chatbot with Nuxt, Nuxt UI, and AI SDK

👉🏻 Learn how to build a full-featured AI chatbot with streaming responses, multiple models support, and a beautiful UI using Nuxt, Nuxt UI, and Vercel AI SDK.

📕 Nuxt Scripts for improved Performance and Security

👉🏻 It provides a safe, declarative, and performance-oriented way to manage external scripts without blocking rendering or exposing users to unnecessary risks.

🛠️ Nuxt Content v3.10

👉🏻 Collections with single CSV source will convert each row to a standalone document.

👉🏻 Faster query with collection indexes.

Launch Your Nuxt App in Minutes - Not Weeks I built this starter kit because I kept rewriting the same boilerplate for every new Nuxt project.

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🧑🏻‍💻 In Other News

🛠️ fuite

👉🏻 A CLI tool for finding memory leaks in web apps.

🛠️ Mole

👉🏻 Deep clean and optimize your Mac.

😂 Fun

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Weekly Vue News #229

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Hi 👋

I hope you have a wonderful holiday season and get to spend quality time with your loved ones. Enjoy the break and I'll see you in the new year!

Enjoy this issue and have a lovely week ☀️

Vue

📕 Vue 3 Testing Pyramid: A Practical Guide with Vitest Browser Mode

👉🏻 Learn a practical testing strategy for Vue 3 applications using composable unit tests, Vitest browser mode integration tests, and visual regression testing.

Nuxt

📕 Setting Up Your IDE for Nuxt UI: A Complete Guide

👉🏻 Get autocomplete, TypeScript support, Tailwind IntelliSense, ESLint, and AI-powered MCP, Icon previews, and more.

📕 A Layered Architecture for Nuxt Fullstack applications

👉🏻 As your fullstack Nuxt app grows, you'll need more structure than just routes calling the database directly.

👉🏻 Here's a layered architecture that scales with complexity.

📕 Validating API Routes in Nuxt 4 with Zod

👉🏻 Stop writing manual validation logic in every API route.

👉🏻 Here are some utility functions that make Zod validation painless in Nuxt.

📕 15 Must-Have Nuxt Modules to Supercharge Your Development in 2025

👉🏻 Discover 15 must-use Nuxt modules that boost performance, simplify development, and save hours of configuration.

🛠️ MDCLint

👉🏻 A CLI + ESLint plugin for linting MDC and Markdown.

🛠️ Nuxt Studio beta is out

👉🏻 Form editor for YAML/JSON & Front-matter (based on Nuxt Content schema)

👉🏻 Editor improvements (video, emojis...)

👉🏻 Translated in 16 languages

🛠️ Nuxt UI v4.3.0

👉🏻 New Editor components powered by TipTap

with toolbars, slash commands, mentions, emojis, and drag & drop.

👉🏻 New ScrollArea component with virtualization using TanStack

Virtual.

Launch Your Nuxt App in Minutes - Not Weeks I built this starter kit because I kept rewriting the same boilerplate for every new Nuxt project.

📅 Events

Vue.js Amsterdam (12-13 March 2026, Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Vueconf US (19-21 May 2026, Atlanta, USA)

MadVue (22 May 2026, Madrid, Spain)

💬 Quote of the week

🧑🏻‍💻 In Other News

📕 Making complex web apps faster

👉🏻 Microsoft is proposing a new Delayed Message Timing API to help web developers diagnose and fix performance issues in complex web applications that use multiple windows, iframes, or worker threads.

📕 How good engineers write bad code at big companies

👉🏻 Big tech companies produce surprisingly sloppy code because most code changes are made by engineers who are relative beginners to the specific codebase, programming language, or system they're working on.

🛠️ Sonda

👉🏻 A universal bundle analyzer and visualizer for JavaScript and CSS projects.

👉🏻 It generates interactive HTML reports by analyzing source maps and showing module sizes after tree-shaking and minification.

🛠️ Browser Score

👉🏻 A browser testing tool that quickly checks how many web platform features your browser recognizes and gives it a percentage score.

📹 Which plugins slow your build? You can find out now!

👉🏻 The newest Rolldown version helps us finding slow plugins.

😂 Fun

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