# Nuxt

18 Hacker News commenters recommended Nuxt and 5 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 9 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Free Vue framework people pick for web apps, often over React or Next. Critics point to team turmoil and heavy migrations.

## Why people recommend it

- Preferred over React and Next (2 comments): "my preference goes with Vue and Nuxt especially which is tremendously better than the monsters of Next or RR" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45861474)) "I switched from React/Next to Vue/Nuxt." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47740305))
- Works well for real projects (3 comments): "I've spent the last year building a fairly large community site in Nuxt" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47144820)) "Yeah I love Vue and Nuxt. They worked great for this project" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45871224)) "I’ve been getting great results with Nuxt and Nuxt UI" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49929011))

## What people warn about

- Regretted using it for projects (2 comments): "I made this mistake once in my life by choosing nuxt to build a website" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822453)) "I regretted every project I used Nuxt for." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49928750))
- Team chaos and acquisition worries (2 comments): "Got sick of Nuxt and the Nuxt Team's chaos years ago." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49975423)) "they ended up acquiring the Nuxt project/team" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47706642))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Ruby on Rails](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ruby-on-rails.md): 337 recommend
- [Django](https://hackerapproved.com/p/django.md): 277 recommend
- [Next.js](https://hackerapproved.com/p/next-js.md): 127 recommend
- [Phoenix Framework](https://hackerapproved.com/p/phoenix.md): 85 recommend
- [Laravel](https://hackerapproved.com/p/laravel.md): 71 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Nuxt", https://hackerapproved.com/p/nuxt/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).