Nuxt
Hacker ApprovedShares rank 21 of 63 web frameworks by recommenders
Free Vue framework people pick for web apps, often over React or Next. Critics point to team turmoil and heavy migrations.
Free Vue framework people pick for web apps, often over React or Next. Critics point to team turmoil and heavy migrations.
23 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 18
- criticize it
- 5
- approval share
- 78%
Recommended in 9 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 18 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 3.6 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 9 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Preferred over React and Next
“my preference goes with Vue and Nuxt especially which is tremendously better than the monsters of Next or RR”
Comment from 9 Nov 2025 in “Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language” “I switched from React/Next to Vue/Nuxt.”
Comment from 12 Apr 2026 in “Why AI Sucks at Front End” Works well for real projects
“I've spent the last year building a fairly large community site in Nuxt”
Comment from 24 Feb 2026 in “How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week” “Yeah I love Vue and Nuxt. They worked great for this project”
Comment from 10 Nov 2025 in “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)” “I’ve been getting great results with Nuxt and Nuxt UI”
Comment from 2 Oct 2026 in “SvelteKit 3”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Regretted using it for projects
“I made this mistake once in my life by choosing nuxt to build a website”
Comment from 19 Apr 2026 in “Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine” “I regretted every project I used Nuxt for.”
Comment from 2 Oct 2026 in “SvelteKit 3” Team chaos and acquisition worries
“Got sick of Nuxt and the Nuxt Team's chaos years ago.”
Comment from 6 Oct 2026 in “Nuxt 4.6” “they ended up acquiring the Nuxt project/team”
Comment from 9 Apr 2026 in “Vercel Claude Code plugin wants to read your prompt”
Other web frameworks people recommend
The four most recommended other web frameworks, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ruby on Rails | 337 | 145 | 70% | 12 | 14 yrs38 owners | Approved |
| Django | 277 | 97 | 74% | 12 | 15 yrs38 owners | Approved |
| Next.js | 127 | 256 | 33% | 12 | 3 yrs6 owners | — |
| Phoenix Framework | 85 | 11 | 89% | 12 | 8 yrs7 owners | Approved |
| NuxtThis page | 18 | 5 | 78% | 9 | — | Approved |
What people said
18 of the 23 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“considering how much you get from it”
“it's chunky and a greater migration burden”
“Astro or Nuxt are my gotos for client work and personal projects.”
“found it actually awesome for one person team”
“Got sick of Nuxt and the Nuxt Team's chaos years ago.”
“I’ve been getting great results with Nuxt and Nuxt UI”
“I regretted every project I used Nuxt for.”
“I loved the development of those projects and wanted to implement something with it.”
“Personally I refuse things that”
“I made this mistake once in my life by choosing nuxt to build a website”
“I switched from React/Next to Vue/Nuxt.”
“they ended up acquiring the Nuxt project/team”
“I've spent the last year building a fairly large community site in Nuxt”
“I saw the open source components and templates here”
“paired with the reactivity of the new Nuxt 4”
“Yeah I love Vue and Nuxt. They worked great for this project”
“noticed vue and nuxt nice”
“my preference goes with Vue and Nuxt especially which is tremendously better than the monsters of Next or RR”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.