The Future of Nuxt

I am very pleased to let you know that a number of us on the Nuxt core team are joining Vercel.

As you know, Nuxt is a free and open source framework for building full-stack web apps. One of the things that sets us apart is our community. So many people contribute, whether to the framework itself, to modules, or through articles, tutorials, and libraries.

It is not too strong to say that without the community, Nuxt would be a shadow of what it is today.

At the same time, Nuxt’s growth has been made possible by generous sponsorship — from individuals, companies, and especially NuxtLabs. NuxtLabs, founded by Sébastien and Alex Chopin, the original authors of Nuxt, has supported many of us on the core team, as well as others in the wider ecosystem.

We have seen Nuxt grow from small origins to powering sites from Google, GitHub, Microsoft — and many more. And the future of Nuxt is bright!

Vercel has decided to bet on that future.

Alongside acquiring NuxtLabs (I'll let you read more about that from Seb directly), Vercel are hiring several members of the Nuxt team to continue to work full-time on open source (@atinux, @pi0, @antfu and me). The rest of the team will remain freelance or are employed elsewhere.

In some ways, nothing is changing. As a team, we’ll retain our independence, public roadmap and open governance. I will continue to lead Nuxt’s technical and strategic direction full-time. And of course our values and commitments remain unchanged.

Nuxt will continue to be a community-built framework, with the same team, the same vision and the same values.

We believe in the open web, and I hope you know that at the heart of Nuxt is choice. Choice in modules, databases, bundlers, routers — and of course deployment platforms as well.

But in other ways, lots is changing. Vercel's investment in the Nuxt team means that we will have more time to invest in making Nuxt better and empowering our community. It's a strong endorsement of our vision — and will help us pursue it more sustainably.

It will also mean that sponsorship we receive from the community can now support even more contributors.

And joining Vercel gives us the chance to help shape their infrastructure to better serve the Nuxt community — and we trust it will therefore make Vercel a better choice for Nuxt apps.

As a team, we are excited to look ahead to the next chapter of Nuxt's growth.

I would love you to celebrate with us. ❤️

The future is bright.