Nuxt: Is it that good?

I've been playing around with Nuxt for a while now (for approximately 4 or 5 months), using it to build a few different personal projects and recently I started using it at my current internship. I've been really impressed with how easy is some things that are usually "hard" to do with the concurrent framework Next.js. I don't have any proof of this, but I think that the name "Nuxt" comes from the junction of "Next" and "Vue", probably this is not the case, but it would be cool if it was.

One of the things that Nuxt got right is the number of pre-configured modules that you can simply add to your project and use it out of the box. For example, I've been using the @nuxt/content module to create this blog and it's been a really nice experience so far: I can write my posts in Markdown and it's automatically converted to HTML with very little configuration. The same goes for the @nuxt/tailwindcss module, which it is very plug-and-play — you just need to install it, add it to the modules array in your nuxt.config.ts and it's ready to use. This can be a killer feature for some people, especially for companies that need to deliver projects fast and don't have time to configure everything from scratch.

The big issue that I see with Nuxt is that people are not much familiar with Vue. There is less content, libraries and tools for Vue than for React and this can slow down the development process of some projects. If I remember correctly, there is a way to use React components in Nuxt using plugins, but the process is not as straightforward as using Vue components. This can be a problem for some people, but I think that with time this will change. Vue is a great framework and it's getting more and more attention from the community, this will be less of a problem in the future.

Nuxt has a lot of potential and I'm really excited to see where it goes.