It was silent for a while on the DejaVue front. Now, Alex and Michael get back to it for.. yet another episode?
Hear more about why it took so long and what the future plans of the podcast are.

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Chapters

Your Hosts

Alexander Lichter

• Bluesky
• Twitter
• YouTube
• Website

Michael Thiessen

• Twitter
• YouTube
• Website

In this special episode of DejaVue, Alexander and Michael are joined by Daniel Roe and Sébastien Chopin to discuss the recent acquisition of NuxtLabs by Vercel. Questions like "Was Nuxt just sold", "How much influence has Vercel", and "What is Vercel excepting from the deal" are answered.
If you wonder what impact the deal has on Nuxt, you as a user and developer, as well as the open-source community, you should tune in!

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Our Guests

Daniel Roe

• Bluesky
• Web
• YouTube
• Twitch

Sébastien Chopin

• NuxtLabs
• Nuxt
• Personal Website
• Bluesky

Chapters

Links and Resources

• Announcement on NuxtLabs.com
• Skew Protection Nitro Issue
• Daniel Roe's Reddit AMA
• The Future of Nuxt GitHub Discussion
• Pooya's Nitro Announcement

Your Hosts

Alexander Lichter

• Bluesky
• YouTube
• Website

Michael Thiessen

• Twitter
• YouTube
• Website

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👉 Don't forget to join ViteConf on October 9-10 in Amsterdam

In this episode of DejaVue, Michael and Alexander look into the major release of Vite 7, including the move to ESM-only, dropping Node 18 support, and adopting the Baseline browser target.
They also discuss the evolving Environment API, upcoming changes in Rolldown-Vite, new Vite dev tools, and more.

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Chapters

• (00:00) - Welcome to DejaVue
• (00:48) - Vite 7 without breaking changes
• (01:53) - Node Version dropped
• (03:13) - ESM-only and Module Formats
• (09:04) - What does ECMA and GIF mean?
• (10:51) - Browser target to Baseline Wide Available
• (14:31) - Environment API
• (16:14) - Rolldown-Vite
• (17:39) - Cleaning up APIs
• (18:11) - Vite Dev Tools
• (21:41) - ViteConf
• (22:57) - Vite Plugin Vue Beta
• (25:04) - Wrapping Up

Links and Resources

• Vite Announcement post
• require(esm) in Node
• tsdown
• obuild
• fdir PR
• DejaVue #E058 - The History of Nuxt and NuxtLabs (with Sébastien Chopin)
• DejaVue #E051 - Vite Inside Out (with Matias "Patak" Capeletto)
• Vite DevTools Preview (screenshot)
• Vite Plugin Vue 6.0 (not beta anymore)

Your Hosts

Alexander Lichter

• Bluesky
• YouTube
• Website

Michael Thiessen

• Twitter
• YouTube
• Website

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