Nuxt.js 2.0: Webpack 4, ESM Modules, create-nuxt-app and more! 💫

4 min readSep 21, 2018

We are really excited to release Nuxt.js v2.0.0, a major release with a lot of improvements. We recommend to look at the GitHub release note to know more about the technical details 🕵️‍.

This article has been published on stage, see https://twitter.com/nuxt_js/status/1043092485310955520

Create-nuxt-app

We are proud to announce our official scaffolding tool that takes over nuxt templates (starter template, express templates, …).

With create-nuxt-app you can choose between integrated server-side framework (Express, Koa, Adonis…), UI frameworks (Vuetify, Bootstrap, Tailwind…) and if you plan to use axios module.

It will be faster to start a new Nuxt app from now 🚀.

Webpack 4 & Babel 7

This means, faster bootup time and faster re-compilation 🚀.

We highly recommend to read our last Medium article "Nuxt 2 is coming!" to learn more about the technical changes related to Webpack.

Stats

Here a short summary for everyone to see what happened since we have created Nuxt.

Google Analytics

~12M page views
~750 K unique visitors
Top 5 countries (visitors): United States, China, England, Japan and Russia

~ 750 K unique visitors since the launch of nuxtjs.org documentation website

GitHub

96 releases on GitHub
~14860 stars on GitHub
~3900 issues & PR (97% closed)

Twitter

+13,5K followers: https://twitter.com/nuxt_js
+900 tweets

NPM

~1,2M downloads
53 official modules: https://www.npmjs.com/org/nuxtjs

Contributors

We are proud to announce two new core team members:

Alexander Lichter, known as ManniL
Jonas Galvez, known as galvez

We also want to thank all our contributors helping us on answering questions, fixing bug reports and being present on our Discord.

Special thanks to Aldarund who is the top #1 user answering Nuxt.js questions on StackOverlow: https://stackoverflow.com/tags/nuxt.js/topusers

Open Collective

We have been on Open Collective since May 2017 (https://opencollective.com/nuxtjs) and we would like to thank all of you for supporting us ❤️

A huge thank to our two partners https://tipe.io/ and https://www.storyblok.com/ for their support!

Discord

We are very proud of our community and are looking forward to new contributors. We recently opened our Discord server, so please, come to chat with us about the present & future of Nuxt.js!

Join us here: https://discord.gg/wmsVTP4

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