Why the hell did Vercel hire the creators of Nuxt?

Today's one of those weird days in web development where a really unexpected thing happened. Nux Labs is joining Versell. Too many triangles aside, this is actually a very exciting acquisition. The potential to benefit the web community as a whole is massive. If you're not already familiar with Nux, it is similar to Nex.js with React. Nux is the Vue equivalent that goes a good bit further. is just as much focused on the server rendering side as it is how data is passed, how you manage API calls, how you integrate different plugins and

features and so much more. It's somewhere between something like Laravel and Next, where it is a hybrid where it does a lot, but it's also relatively minimal and built with modern web tools. I've always had a good bit of envy for some of the cool things going on in the Nux world. Nux Labs is a company that was built around Nux, making the ecosystem for Vue and Nux as good as possible. They've also built some other very important technologies that we'll be touching on throughout this. This acquisition is a huge shift for Versell and potentially for the web as a whole because there's a lot of techn

sponsor and then we'll dive right in. My team's been shipping more code than ever and that's been awesome except for two things. Our CI bill has gotten way bigger and our CI times have gotten way longer. That is until I checked out today's sponsor, Depot. They are a lifesaver for those teams that are trying to ship fast. They built a faster way to run your GitHub actions, Docker builds, and more. And when I say faster, I mean like a lot faster. Their GitHub

action runners have 30% faster CPUs than what we have on GitHub. 10 times faster networking. The cash throughput is just insane. no concurrency restrictions and the cost is half of the cost you would be paying GitHub for all of those benefits. I've known the Depot guys for a while. One of them actually helped design the original T3 logo, as unbelievable as that is, and now they're fixing Docker. They've always been huge nerds on making Docker actually performant. And getting container builds

40 times faster is just unbelievable. These boxes have so much CPU memory. And if you need AWS Graviton or Apple Silicon, they got you covered as well. Just look at the performance that these companies are seeing. Postto, for example, has been building with Depot for a while, and they're 32 times faster for their Docker builds than they were before. If you want to be like this awesome set of companies and have builds going as fast as your team is, check them out today at sidv.link/depo. Nux Labs is joining Versel. Let's dive in from here. I've got a bunch of other interesting details here to make sure we

cover it from as many perspectives as possible. Important to get this one right from the start, our mission at Nux Labs has been to create the best possible developer experience for building fast and beautiful applications. We built Nux as an open- source framework under the MIT license because we believed that great tools should be accessible, transparent, and communitydriven. This is an important piece. Nux itself isn't now part of Versell. Nux Labs is a company that contributes to Nux heavily and also builds a lot of other tools in the ecosystem. They are the ones who are moving to Verscell. There are still core Nux contributors that exist outside of Verscell. still a communityrun and communitydriven project, but a lot of

the tooling pieces that work around it are now moving into Verscell, which should hopefully accelerate their development and prevent any issues with funding, which could very well have happened when you're building an open source focused company. We've spent years pouring our time, energy, and resources into NXT, and through that, we've built not just a product, but also a community, one I'm proud of every single day. But sustaining open source at this level is hard. With Versel's

support, we no longer have to split our focus between maintaining Next and funding its future. Now we can go all on what we love, building in the open. Versel has a strong history of supporting open source projects and creators. Next, Turbo Repo, Spelt, Shaden, AISDK, and more. They understand what it means to invest in the web as a shared platform. We're joining a company that shares our values and is helping us go further without compromising on what makes Nux special. Our open- source team is coming along and we'll continue to work on Nux and Nitro with the same focus and care. This Nitro piece is important. Remember that the project