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Published at Dec 22, 2025, 3:00 PMBundle Insights, Browsers Scores & Nuxt UI Powerups Ready for your weekly Vue & Nuxt dose? Weekly Vue News #229 Bundle Insights, Browsers Scores & Nuxt UI Powerups View online Hi 👋 I hope you have a wonderful holiday season and get to spend quality time with your loved ones. Enjoy the break and I'll see you in the new year! Enjoy this issue and have a lovely week ☀️ Vue 📕 Vue 3 Testing Pyramid: A Practical Guide with Vitest Browser Mode 👉🏻 Learn a practical testing strategy for Vue 3 applications using composable unit tests, Vitest browser mode integration tests, and visual regression testing. Nuxt 📕 Setting Up Your IDE for Nuxt UI: A Complete Guide 👉🏻 Get autocomplete, TypeScript support, Tailwind IntelliSense, ESLint, and AI-powered MCP, Icon previews, and more. 📕 A Layered Architecture for Nuxt Fullstack applications 👉🏻 As your fullstack Nuxt app grows, you'll need more structure than just routes calling the database directly. 👉🏻 Here's a layered architecture that scales with complexity. 📕 Validating API Routes in Nuxt 4 with Zod 👉🏻 Stop writing manual validation logic in every API route. 👉🏻 Here are some utility functions that make Zod validation painless in Nuxt. 📕 15 Must-Have Nuxt Modules to Supercharge Your Development in 2025 👉🏻 Discover 15 must-use Nuxt modules that boost performance, simplify development, and save hours of configuration. 🛠️ MDCLint 👉🏻 A CLI + ESLint plugin for linting MDC and Markdown. 🛠️ Nuxt Studio beta is out 👉🏻 Form editor for YAML/JSON & Front-matter (based on Nuxt Content schema) 👉🏻 Editor improvements (video, emojis...) 👉🏻 Translated in 16 languages 🛠️ Nuxt UI v4.3.0 👉🏻 New Editor components powered by TipTap with toolbars, slash commands, mentions, emojis, and drag & drop. 👉🏻 New ScrollArea component with virtualization using TanStack Virtual. 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 Vue.js Amsterdam (12-13 March 2026, Amsterdam, Netherlands) Vueconf US (19-21 May 2026, Atlanta, USA) MadVue (22 May 2026, Madrid, Spain) 💬 Quote of the week 🧑🏻💻 In Other News 📕 Making complex web apps faster 👉🏻 Microsoft is proposing a new Delayed Message Timing API to help web developers diagnose and fix performance issues in complex web applications that use multiple windows, iframes, or worker threads. 📕 How good engineers write bad code at big companies 👉🏻 Big tech companies produce surprisingly sloppy code because most code changes are made by engineers who are relative beginners to the specific codebase, programming language, or system they're working on. 🛠️ Sonda 👉🏻 A universal bundle analyzer and visualizer for JavaScript and CSS projects. 👉🏻 It generates interactive HTML reports by analyzing source maps and showing module sizes after tree-shaking and minification. 🛠️ Browser Score 👉🏻 A browser testing tool that quickly checks how many web platform features your browser recognizes and gives it a percentage score. 📹 Which plugins slow your build? You can find out now! 👉🏻 The newest Rolldown version helps us finding slow plugins. 😂 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 should subscribe Alexander Lichter's YouTube channel if you are interested in Vue & Nuxt. 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 }}