Weekly Vue News #215

Evan You Unplugged, Nuxt Chunking Boost, and Vue Error Boundaries

Hi 👋

No exciting personal updates this week. However, I migrated my Nuxt Starter Kit to Nuxt UI v4 (alpha)! You can now use it without a Nuxt UI Pro license and get access to all Nuxt UI Pro components for free.

Enjoy this issue and have a lovely week ☀️

Vue

📹 Evan You: Google, Vue, Vite, Nuxt, Next, Vercel & VoidZero

👉🏻 A conversation with Evan You, creator of Vue & Vite.

👉🏻 A brilliant mind, and one of the greatest JavaScript developers in the history of programming.

🛠️ VueUse Playground

👉🏻 An online playground for VueUse.

💡 Vue Tip: Getting the Previous Value of a Computed Property

Since Vue 3.4+ you can get the the previous value returned by the computed property accessing the first argument of the getter:

1<script setup>  2import { ref, computed } from 'vue'  3  4const count = ref(2)  5  6// This computed will return the value of count when it's less or equal to 3.  7// When count is >=4, the last value that fulfilled our condition will be returned  8// instead until count is less or equal to 3  9const alwaysSmall = computed((previous) => {  10  if (count.value <= 3) {  11    return count.value  12  }  13  14  return previous  15})  16</script>

In case you're using a writable computed:

1<script setup>  2import { ref, computed } from 'vue'  3  4const count = ref(2)  5  6const alwaysSmall = computed({  7  get(previous) {  8    if (count.value <= 3) {  9      return count.value  10    }  11  12    return previous  13  },  14  set(newValue) {  15    count.value = newValue * 2  16  }  17})  18</script>

Nuxt

📕 How To Run Scheduled Tasks in Nuxt on Netlify – The Hacky Way … for now…*

👉🏻 Nitro (and thus Nuxt) has experimental support for scheduled tasks.

👉🏻 However, if you're deploying to Netlify, you'll quickly discover that Nitro's scheduledTasks feature doesn't work yet.

📕 Nitro: My Favourite Abstraction

👉🏻 "When Nitro first came onto the scene I found it confusing and weird. Now I can't imagine web dev without it."

📕 Nuxt UI v4 MCP server is out

👉🏻 Use Nuxt UI components in your AI assistants with Model Context Protocol support.

📕 How NuxtErrorBoundary Works*

👉🏻 Learn how the NuxtErrorBoundary component in Nuxt 3 works under the hood to gracefully handle client-side errors.

👉🏻 This deep dive explores its powerful features, source code, and practical use cases to help you write more resilient Vue apps.

📹 Nuxt has better chunking now

👉🏻 In the latest Nuxt release, the chunking was improved a lot, leading to stable hashes and less changing files per build.

👉🏻 Figure out what happened and what the problem was.

Launch Your Nuxt App in Minutes - Not Weeks

I built this starter kit because I kept rewriting the same boilerplate for every new Nuxt project.

📅 Events

PragVue (23 September 2025, Czech Republic)

VueFes (25 October 2025, Otemachi, Japan)

💬 Quote of the week

🧑🏻‍💻 In Other News

📕 The Future of JavaScript: What Awaits Us

👉🏻 JavaScript continues to evolve rapidly.

👉🏻 The TC39 committee has advanced nine proposals, including the newly standardized explicit resource management feature using the using keyword for automatic cleanup, and Array.fromAsync for handling async iterables.

📕 New series of blog posts: learning web development

👉🏻 Learn the basics of web development from a real pro.

👉🏻 2ality is known for their technical deep dives but they're taking a step back to focus on more beginner friendly content.

🛠️ Cornerstone.js

👉🏻 A set of JavaScript libraries to build things like this 3D CT scan viewer, PET-CT scan viewer, and much more besides.

🛠️ 90's Cursor Effects

👉🏻 This is a blast of nostalgia.

👉🏻 A neat collection of throwback cursor effects but designed for the modern web (fast, efficient).