Double Trouble: The Nuxt Surprise (with Daniel Roe)

Jun 15, 2025

Daniel Roe, Head of the Nuxt team, shares exciting updates on the upcoming releases of Nuxt 4 and 5. He reveals the strategic decision to launch these major versions soon, emphasizing a smooth migration experience for users. The conversation highlights significant enhancements in Nitro and Vite, aiming for improved performance. Roe also discusses the importance of backward compatibility and community engagement, ensuring user confidence as they navigate these changes. Dive into the future of the Nuxt ecosystem with humor and insight!

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INSIGHT

Two Nuxt Majors Incoming

Nuxt 4 has been delayed over a year mostly due to Nitro's delay, but the Nuxt team decided to release Nuxt 4 soon independent of Nitro's final release.
Nuxt 5 will follow shortly after Nuxt 4 and include Nitro 3 and major Vite integration improvements.

INSIGHT

Careful Breaking Changes Strategy

Nuxt 4 aims to reassure users that major versions can have minimal breaking impact with careful backwards compatibility and granular opt-in flags.
The team plans roughly one major release per year to keep changes manageable and less frightening.

ADVICE

Leverage CompatibilityVersion Flag

Use the compatibilityVersion flag to opt in selectively to breaking changes, enabling gradual migration.
This feature continues in future major releases to let developers handle changes incrementally and reduce upgrade stress.

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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.

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Daniel Roe

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

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