Hi, everyone. This will be my 24th and last article in 2025. I wish you all a great start into the upcoming New year 2026 and before it happens, let’s do this quick recap of latest development in the Vue / Nuxt / Vite world once again.
Vue will probably end 2025 in maintenance version 3.5.26. Vue v3.5 was released more than a year ago, so we can say the fundament of our ecosystem is pretty solid and stable right now. Bugs are being fixed, dependencies patched, and minor tweaks appear from time to time, but overall the code base has been settled and we can develop without worrying we will have to rebuild everything every few months.
I am not even aware of any ground-breaking changes under development, besides long anticipated Vapor mode, a new strategy for faster components’ rendering. This will land in Vue 3.6 whose beta release appeared right before Christmas. If you want to know more, there is an article by Evan You himself. It was released in March though, so you can see the whole process takes its time.
I would say a solid portion of development effort was re-directed to Vite, the build tool originally designed for Vue which but overgrew into viable cornerstone of JavaScript development. And it is growing further as you can follow at the Void(0) blog page. Vite itself is now available in version 7.3 with upcoming v8 iterating towards the final release. Everything you need to know about Vite v8, is here.
Finally, Nuxt release cycle slowed down a bit in the last couple of weeks. Recent v4.2 is here with us for 2 months already with second patch release 4.2.2 being the last available version. Former v3 is still being maintained with backported version released together with v4 (3.20.2 is the most recent), but the scheduled EOL date (2026-01-31) is getting close. The relative stability is the good news, as it means other parts of the ecosystem as various modules may catch up and stabilize themselves around the latest releases too. Meanwhile, new major Nuxt version 5 is somewhere out there in the distance, probably closer than you fear, but farther then you hope. Or maybe vice versa, if you don’t want to migrate again (though it is promised it should be easy and straightforward). Anyway, we’ll see what happens in 2026.
Aside vanilla framework, Nuxt offers a number of wonderful modules to extend the core functionality. One of the most prominent official ones is Nuxt UI, the UI toolkit. The library keeps evolving, with latest version 4.3, that was released on 17th December. If you pick it for your next project, you may benefit from this practical guide about how to set up your IDE. Actually, you should check the article anyway, because many tips apply to Vue/Nuxt development in general. And I can confirm I was already using most of the extensions mentioned – they’re valid and battle-tested.
If you want to receive ecosystem updates more often than once in a month, there are Weekly Vue News, an email newsletter being delivered each Monday. I certainly recommend you to subscribe, as I am getting a lot of inspirations from there.
Last but not least I want to spotlight a comprehensive NPM security guide composed by cybersecurity expert Liran Tal. In the woke of recent supply-chain attacks outbreak it is always good to remind and revise strategies to keep your projects safer.
Stay safe, have a great rest of 2025 and a successful start into 2026. See you again in the New year! 🫡
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