I'm learning Vue, and it's ecosystem, and now I read about nuxt.js.

As I understand, this is tool which help us to build Vue apps, but don't we do the same with vite.js?

What's the difference between them?

CodePudding user response：

Vite is a build tool like Webpack, that will basically allow you to work locally on your app and build it for production. It will also bring to the table various loaders, Hot Module Replacement capabilities, environment variables, assets managements etc.

Nuxt is totally unrelated to all of this. It is comparable to Gatsby/Next/Vitepress for a React/Svelte equivalent.

It's goal is to provide more capabilities to VueJS. For example, Vue can only be run as an SPA, meaning that you will not get any kind of indexing with search engines, while Nuxt do have SSR and SSG modes that will allow your websites to be efficiently crawled.

It also brings a lot of Developer Experience niceties: auto import of the composition API, of the components, simple routing, huge ecosystem thanks to all of Nuxt's modules, simpler configuration etc...
It's more like VueJS apps on steroids basically!

Also, latest version of Nuxt (v3) works with Vite out of the box. So, both of them are complementary because you need a build tool to work nowadays in the JS ecosystem you get more features than just VueJS.

There are tools like vite-plugin-ssr and vitesse (created by one Nuxt's core maintainer btw) who can solve the basic needs of statically generating some routes/etc but it's not as powerful, have smaller communities around it and is overall moving a bit slower.

Trusting people who are behind Nuxt/Vite is also an important aspect, and most of them are well known in the community are serious daily maintainers!