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Finalizing the Nuxt starter kit demo! Next, I’ll be rewriting CodeSnap.dev with it. Still a lot of work ahead, so the release date is not anytime soon.
Enjoy this issue and have a lovely week ☀️
Vue
📕 Stop Using and Recommending React
👉🏻 The author used React for a long time and explains that there is no reason to use it and a lot of reasons against it.
👉🏻 He mentions Vue, Svelte or Lit as alternatives.
📕 Announcing TanStack Form v1
👉🏻 A stable, production-ready form library with support for React, Vue, Angular, Solid, and Lit.
👉🏻 It has extreme type safety, schema validation (Zod, Valibot, ArkType), and asynchronous validation with built-in debouncing.
📹 5 Vue features you might MISS OUT right now
👉🏻 In more than 11 years of Vue, a lot of features became part of the framework - and of course, nobody uses all of them.
👉🏻 So why not presenting some of the lesser-known features? That's what happens in this video.
📹 I was wrong about defineModel...
👉🏻 This video delves into the useModel
useModel helper function from the Vue, demonstrating its purpose and functionality.
🛠️ rstore
👉🏻 The reactive data store for Vue & Nuxt.
👉🏻 Define a data model and then run queries or execute mutations (create, update and delete) on your data.
🛠️ endoflife.date
👉🏻 A handy, updated source of 'end-of-life' dates for hundreds of open source projects, including Angular, Node.js, and Vue.
Nuxt
📕 Nuxt 3.16
👉🏻 npm create nuxt
npm create nuxt starter
👉🏻 unhead v2 upgrade
👉🏻 Delayed/lazy hydration support
👉🏻 Devtools v2 with config tracking
👉🏻 Named layer aliases
👉🏻 Better error handling
👉🏻 Granular debug options
👉🏻 Major performance boosts
📕 Nuxt UI v3 is out
👉🏻 This major redesign brings improved accessibility, Tailwind CSS v4 support, and full Vue compatibility.
👉🏻 Nuxt UI Pro v3 is out as well.
📕 How to Develop an Open Telemetry Plugin for Nuxt
👉🏻 Currently, there is no built-in OpenTelemetry integration in Nuxt.
👉🏻 This article explains how to create a plugin for it.
📅 Events
Vueconf.US (13 - 15 May 2025, Tampa, Florida)
MadVue (29 May 2025, Madrid, Spain)
💬 Quote of the week
🧑🏻💻 In Other News
📕 What is TypeScript? An overview for JavaScript programmers
👉🏻 Dr. Axel does a good job at boiling down the what (rather than the ‘why’) of TypeScript.
📕 The modern way to write JavaScript servers
👉🏻 Using the web standard Request and Response objects for building servers is the modern way to do it and can even work in Node with a polyfill.
🛠️ Windows 95 in Electron
👉🏻 v4.0 adds Office 95 and IE 5.5 for some (limited) browsing of the Web.
🛠️ Command & Conquer Source Code Released
👉🏻 EA released the source code of classic C&C titles like Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert, Renegade, and Generals.
👉🏻 Browse them all now on GitHub.
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