Nuxt Server Components (with Julien Huang‪)‬ DejaVue

Welcome to the sixth episode of DejaVue! Alex is joined by another amazing guest - he is a Front-end Developer, Public Speaker and also part of the Nuxt.js core team - Julien Huang.
While Michael is still off on paternity leave, Julien and Alex talk about how Julien started to code (during COVID 😲) and when he dabbled into open source, which culminated in joining the Nuxt team and regularly contributing.One of the key feature that Julien is working on are Server Components - so of course the rest of the episode revolves around them. What are they? How do they work? And when should you use them? Julien will go in-depth on all these questions, give some behind the scene looks and "do's and don'ts" advice too!Eventually, the future of Server Components is discussed.
Enjoy the episode!
Chapters

(00:00) - Intro and guest introduction

(00:50) - Julien's day job

(02:31) - His programming journey

(10:28) - Getting into Open Source

(15:47) - What are Nuxt Server Components?

(17:37) - When would you use Server Components?

(20:27) - Server Components and interactivity

(26:55) - How are Server Components handled on the client side?

(30:21) - Does Static Site Generation (SSG) work with Server Components?

(32:43) - Why are Server Components still experimental?

(35:02) - Remote Component Islands

(38:32) - The future of Server Components

(44:38) - Julien's thoughts on React's vs Vue's Server Component approach

(47:53) - Outro

Links and Resources

Open ClassroomsAnalog's (Angular) SFC proposalJulien's first module to enable the runtime compilerFaster Nuxt Builds with the Build Cache ModuleServer Component Docs414 - URI Too LongThe NuxtIsland componentOur Nuxt Contribution GuideIsland ArchitectureAstroServer Only PagesInertia.jsNuxt.js Discord