Meta Frameworks

Nuxt 3 scores 89% satisfaction and 73% retention in the State of JS 2024 survey, beating Next.js's 84%, and has become the de facto Vue meta-framework. A friend migrated from hand-rolled Vue 3 + Vite to Nuxt 3 in a weekend, dropping LCP from 6.3s to 1.4s after a Product Hunt traffic spike. The stack pairs Vue 3 auto-imports with file-based routing and Nitro, which compiles to Node, Bun, Deno, Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge, or Netlify Edge. Use `runtimeConfig` (not `public`) for secrets and `setResponseHeader` for CDN caching.

Next.js 15 in 2026: App Router, Server Components, and the New Caching. Last October, Observations included a case where a senior engineer at a 200-person fintech stare at a Vercel dashboard for ten straight minutes. Their marketing page, the one they spent two months rewriting on App Router, was serving