DejaVue

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. Enjoy the Episode! 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 commun...

👉 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. Enjoy the Episode! Chapters (00:00)...

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 mont...

Join Alex and Michael with special guest Sébastien Chopin, creator of Nuxt.js and CEO of NuxtLabs , to learn more about the origins and evolution of the Vue-based meta framework. Sébastien shares valuable lessons from open source, how he came to create Nuxt.js in the first place and which challenges came with it. In the second part of the episode, they cover Sébastien's company NuxtLabs - from its...

In this episode of DejaVue, Michael and Alex chat with Matt Perry, the creator of Motion (formerly Framer Motion), about animations in web development. Matt talks about his journey from designing gaming magazines as a kid to becoming a full-time developer, sharing his experiences with ActionScript, jQuery, and how Motion was born. They discuss how simple and powerful Motion's API is, its ability t...

In this episode of DejaVue, Alex and Michael are joined by Jared Wilcurt, UI architect and open source contributor, to get knee-deep into the world of testing in Vue.js, especially Snapshot Testing. Jared shares his journey from React frustration to Vue enthusiasm, and explains how he identified gaps in Vue's testing ecosystem that led to the creation of his Vue 3 Snapshot Serializer library. No m...

In this episode of DejaVue, Alex sits down with James Garbutt, open source maintainer and lead of the e18e initiative. James shares his journey from writing web scrapers as a teenager to maintaining critical JavaScript libraries like parse5 or Chokidar and eventually co-creating the ecosystem performance initiative. The conversation is then all around e18e, which aims to improve performance across...

Join hosts Michael Thiessen and Alexander Lichter for a special episode of DejaVue - a fascinating panel discussion on open source sustainability with three open source enthusiasts:  Daniel Roe (Nuxt Team Lead), Chad Whitacre (Head of Open Source at Sentry), and  Rijk van Zanten (CTO and co-founder of Directus). The panelists dive deep into what sustainability truly means in open source and get de...

Nuxt 3.16 dropped and it's packed with goodies! In this episode, Alex and Michael break down all the cool stuff in this release that'll make your Nuxt development smoother. They dive into the new command to initialize a Nuxt application, the performance-game-changing lazy hydration support that'll boost your app's performance, and named layer aliases (that you've been waiting for). Plus, huge perf...

In episode 52 of DejaVue (yes, it is a whole year ), Dennis Adriaansen joins Michael and Alex to discuss data visualization in Vue.js. Dennis shares insights about building chart components, his experience with different charting libraries, and introduces his own Vue charting library. They explore topics like chart customization, performance considerations, and integrating charts into dashboards....

Vite is amazing, I think we can all agree on that statement. But what is Vite actually !? Why is it so great, faster than webpack and the "de-facto standard of the web" already? Alex is joined by Vite Core Team member Matias Capeletto, better known as Patak, to talk about all these questions. Learn about the future of Vite, how it uses two bundlers under the hood and why almost every framework ado...

For episode number 50 ( not 51 Alex! ), Angular GDE and JetBrains DevRel Jan-Niklas Wortmann joins the show. Together with Michael and Alex they dive into Jan-Niklas' angle of being a DevRel, how framework communities are different and why people should give WebStorm a try. Beyond that, Volar and LSPs are also covered, as well as some new announcements! Enjoy the episode Our Guest Jan-Niklas Wortm...

In this episode, Michael and Alex are joined by Aaron Francis, software developer, content creator, and co-founder of Try Hard Studios.  Besides covering Aaron's journey into programming, they dive into Fusion, a new library that Aaron has been working on which will fuse your Laravel backend together with your Vue frontend, allowing you to write PHP and Vue in the same file. The three developers d...

AI is a hot topic in the tech industry, but how does it intersect with Vue.js? In this special episode, Michael and Alex host a panel at Vue.js Nation 2025 and are joined by two amazing guests: Patrick van Everdingen , AI Solutions Engineer Daniel Kelly , Lead Instructor at Vue School The four developers discuss how AI and Vue can work together. Will we all lose our jobs to AI? How does AI might i...

If you've listened to the last episode, you know what is coming next! It is time to get take a Vue at the other host of this podcast. Michael is asking Alex all around his past - from how we got into programming and web development, if university was worth it and how he got into the Nuxt Core Team. Also don't miss out how Minecraft is part of the history, what non-tech job Alex would do if program...

The guest of this episode is one you've heard on here quite often - but do you also know him well? Together, we take a look (or Vue 👀) at Michael Thiessen, co-host of this podcast. Learn how his average day looks like, how he became a full-time content creator and find out what he did before getting into Web Development, plus insights on how he created his first course and dealt with impostor syn...

Together with the FormKit author Justin Schroeder, Michael and Alex discuss the challenges of building forms on the internet. While it seems like a simple task, forms can be complex and pretty time-consuming. Especially when it is more than a Newsletter or Contact Form. Justin shares his experience building FormKit (multiple times), a form library for Vue.js, and how it can help developers build f...

After our recap episode on 2024 , it is time to look into 2025 - and share our predictions and even some rather spicy hot takes what developers can expect in 2025. Of course, Michael and Alex once again have the Nuxt team Lead Daniel Roe on the show to get some insights on his takes as well! Find out more about their thoughts on Vue Vapor, Nuxt 4, Conferences, Alien Signals, Vue 4, Nitro and many...

Of course, we can't fully start into 2025 with a little ReVue of the past year. And to make sure to catch all the highlights, Alex is joined by Daniel Roe, full-time open source developer and lead of the Nuxt team to go through some notable events of 2024 in the Vue and Nuxt ecosystem. In addition to the shining moments of 2024, don't miss out a deep dive into web fonts, learn why Nuxt 4 isn't out...

In this episode, Michael talks with Adam Jahr, Founder of Vue Mastery, all about creating technical content - and how this is relevant for you as a developer. Tune in and figure out how Adam founded Vue Mastery, what his biggest learnings from his Coding Bootcamp times were and learn key tips that can set your content apart from others! And as a bonus - learn what creating content, regardless the...

To start the year light and fun, Michael and Alex are joined by Rijk van Zanten, the creator of Directus. Of course we talk about his journey into web development, the Vue.js ecosystem, what Directus is and why he chose Vue over other frameworks for it's extensible frontend. Further, Rijk shares his thoughts on the Vue.js job market and how his "Quadruple Migration", over to the Composition API, P...

This DejaVue episode comes as a little special! As a belated Christmas present, we got everything, literally everything that was discussed on this podcast about one big topic: Composition API vs. Options API . A lot of our previous guests had their own takes on the two APIs - and some might surprise you! So, why not tuning in and hear fifteen people talk about their opinions, insights and suggesti...

The second half of the conversation with Sumit Kumar focuses all on the technical side of his SaaS. At first, Michael and Alex talk about Sumit's experience with the migration from Nuxt 2 to Nuxt 3 - and we all know this isn't an easy one. Further, the Composition API vs. the Options API, as well as structuring code and writing good composables are discussed. And of course, the question if Sumit c...

In this episode of DejaVue, Alex and Michael are joined by Sumit Kumar , the founder of Parqet. Sumit shares his journey from getting into Web Development and Vue.js over to working at Stripe and eventually founding Parqet, a (German) portfolio tracker SaaS. Topics covered in the first part of our conversation include a lot of business insights, such as the transition from being a developer to bei...