878: You Are Sleeping On Nuxt, Nitro and Vue w/ Daniel Roe

Wes and Scott talk with Daniel Roe about Nuxt and Nitro, demystifying the UnJS ecosystem, serverless deployments, open-source sustainability, and the future of full-stack web development.

Show Notes

• 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
• 02:52 Daniel’s work with Nitro
  • Nitro
• 06:01 What’s the connection between Nitro and Nuxt?
  • Nuxt
• 09:23 What makes something an UnJS package?
  • UnJS
• 12:55 Nitro’s built-in features
• 18:21 What would Daniel use to build an app today?
  • Cloudflare
  • Vercel
  • Netlify
• 28:01 Brought to you by Sentry.io
• 28:36 Nuxt and SST
  • SST
• 32:25 Nuxt vs. Next.js in 2025
  • Next.js
• 40:06 Keeping docs up to date
• 44:46 Who is behind the fantastic design of the Nuxt website?
  • Anthony Fu
  • Rmoon
  • Vite
• 47:27 Why is Vue awesome?
  • Vue
  • alien-signals
• 52:47 How do you make money in full-time open source?
• 55:32 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs

Sick Picks

• Daniel: DeskPad

Shameless Plugs

• Daniel: React to Nuxt

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