June 15, 2025

Double Trouble: The Nuxt Surprise (with Daniel Roe)

41 minutes

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 significant Vite improvements.
The episode covers the smooth migration experience early adopters reported already, the philosophy behind careful breaking changes, and how the team plans to maintain a yearly major release cycle moving forward.

Enjoy the Episode!

Our Guest

Daniel Roe

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Chapters

(00:00) - Welcome to DejaVue

(01:19) - The big topic

(02:41) - What are the release plans?

(06:47) - Two major versions soon?

(09:28) - Early adopters of compatibilityVersion 4

(11:56) - Depending on other dependencies and versions bumps

(13:45) - Is bumping the minimum Node version a breaking change?

(16:33) - A Quick Nitro TL;DR

(20:46) - Nitro in other frameworks

(25:20) - Why Nuxt 4 now?

(28:41) - LTS support Plans

(29:53) - Nuxt Bridge

(31:46) - Release Dates and skipping Nuxt 4 altogether

(33:14) - We need Release names!

(35:53) - Release Dates for Nuxt 4 and 5

(40:00) - Wrapping Up

Links and Resources

Roadmap to v4 blog post
DejaVue #E043 - The Year in ReVue (with Daniel Roe)
DejaVue #E044 - Our Predictions for Vue and Nuxt in 2025 (with Daniel Roe)
DejaVue #E013 - The Road to Nuxt 4 (with Daniel Roe)
Daniel's PR migrating Elk
Nuxt 4 Migration Guide
DejaVue #E003 - Nitro: The Next Generation Server Toolkit
Srvx
Michael's Nuxt Release Date Comic
Alex' Nuxt 4/5 video

Your Hosts

Alexander Lichter

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Michael Thiessen

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