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Published at Sep 8, 2025, 3:00 PMFrom Build Time Slashing to Font Optimization Ready for your weekly Vue & Nuxt dose? Weekly Vue News #214 From Build Time Slashing to Font Optimization View online Hi 👋 This week is fully packed with exciting Nuxt news — and unfortunately, there’s no Vue news to share. No personal news from me this week, but I hope you enjoy this issue and have a lovely week ☀️ Nuxt 📕 Nuxt 4.1 👉🏻 Chunk stability with import maps 👉🏻 Experimental Rolldown support 👉🏻 Improved lazy hydration 👉🏻 Module dependencies & lifecycle hooks 👉🏻 Performance optimizations 👉🏻 Better module DX 🛠️ Nuxt UI v4 Figma Kit is out 👉🏻 Now 100% free. 👉🏻 Over 2000 components and variants. 👉🏻 Includes blocks for landing, docs, SaaS, AI chat and more. 👉🏻 Light & dark modes with local variables. 👉🏻 Fully customizable. 🛠️ Nuxt UI v4.0.0-alpha.1 👉🏻 If you're eager to try Nuxt UI v4, you can try this alpha version which also has a brand new documentation. 📕 How NuxtErrorBoundary Works* 👉🏻 Learn how the NuxtErrorBoundary component in Nuxt 3 works under the hood to gracefully handle client-side errors. 📕 Effortlessly optimize web fonts with fontless 👉🏻 The Nuxt and Qwik teams joined forces and created an open-source library as a Vite plugin that will benefit all frameworks. 🛠️ Nuxtlify 👉🏻 A theme builder for Nuxt UI. 👉🏻 Define your own colors and customize all variants to your liking. 📹 Faster Nuxt Production builds with 3 lines of changes 👉🏻 Everybody wants faster builds - and you can have them by switching the underlying Vite version to Rolldown-Vite. 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) Sponsored 🗓️ AI-Driven Development Day (AIDD) 👉🏻 On September 10, 2025, some brilliant devs share their AI workflows, prompting techniques, and agent strategies they use to debug faster, automate the grind, and ship software that scales. 👉🏻 100% free. 💬 Quote of the week 🧑🏻💻 In Other News 📕 Everything I know about good API design 👉🏻 When designing good APIs, avoid breaking existing code and use versioning for necessary changes. 👉🏻 The success of an API heavily relies on the product it supports, and a poorly designed product can ruin API elegance. 📕 How PLAID Cut Build Times by 97% Migrating From Rollup To Rolldown 👉🏻 PLAID’s server-side bundling dropped 97% during benchmarking after switching from Rollup + Terser to Rolldown + Oxc-minify. 📕 Partytown: Optimize Third Party Scripts with Web Workers 👉🏻 Third-party resources often weigh down websites and can be tricky to fine-tune for performance. 👉🏻 Learn how to use web workers and Partytown to improve your page speed. 📕 What’s New in ViteLand: August 2025 Recap 👉🏻 Big steps for Oxlint: Type-aware linting preview & custom JS plugins roadmap. 👉🏻 Vitest has visual regression support in beta. 🛠️ Sidequest 👉🏻 A modern, TypeScript-based background job processor for Node.js applications. 👉🏻 It has features like worker threads, multiple database backends (SQLite, PostgreSQL, and MySQL), ESM/CJS support, and a web dashboard for monitoring. 🛠️ CSS Grid Generator 👉🏻 Create custom CSS Grid layouts, copy the HTML and CSS. 😂 Fun 🔗 Want more Vue & Nuxt content? More Exclusive Vue Tips : Join Michael Thiessen's newsletter and get great Vue tips and insights delivered to your inbox each week. Weekly Vue & Nuxt Videos : You must subscribe Alexander Lichter's YouTube channel if you are interested in Vue & Nuxt. DejaVue Podcast : A weekly podcast about Vue.js and the ecosystem around it. Comments? Join the discussion about this issue in our Discord community . Until next week, Michael Hoffmann (Curator) To support me: 😘 Recommend the newsletter to your friends: it really helps! 💸 Sponsor this newsletter 🦋 Repost the latest BlueSky post 📨 Reply to this email: feedback is welcome * Some of my links are affiliate links; if you make a purchase, I gain a small percentage at no extra cost. Thank you for supporting my newsletter. Unsubscribe Siegersdorf 18, 94371 Rattenberg, Germany {{ TrackView }}