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Vue is used by 21% of the top 10,000 sites, according to BuiltWith, which (among other things) tracks more than 2,500 e-commerce technologies across over 26 million e-commerce websites.
It’s one of the statistics in the State of Vue.js 2025 report, which queried 1,428 Vue users about the framework.
21% means that twice as many of the biggest sites use React vs. Vue. Among all active sites, React is used 15 times as often as Vue. However, the majority of those queried said they liked Vue and planned to continue using it.
Vue is increasingly used as a frontend for server-side rendering, with 45% reporting this use — up from 31% in 2021. However, 93% of those queried said they most often use Vue as a frontend for single-page applications.
The survey also found that TypeScript and Nuxt are also both widely used in Vue projects. Eighty-two percent of the Vue users surveyed have used TypeScript for JavaScript, up from 38% when the survey was conducted in 2021.
Finally, 68% of respondents report using Nuxt in their Vue projects.
The report includes a Q&A with Vue creator Ethan You, who relayed that Vue 3.6 will be another big reactivity system refactor with a new signals library. He also said the team has been working on Vapor Mode, which is a new runtime.
Nue.js Creates App Lighter than React/ShadCN Button
Nue.js is a web framework for UX designers that focuses on web standards. It’s currently in the active development stage, but in a recent write-up, frontend/UX developer and Nue.js creator Tero Piirainen highlights how it can be used to create an entire app that’s lighter than a React/ShadCN button.
He also presents the same app but with a Rust computation engine and Event Sourcing for instant search and other operations over 150,000 records, which he notes is far past where the JS-version of the engine crashed with a maximum call stack exception. There’s a demo for that version.
“This is a game-changer for Rust, Go, and JS engineers stuck wrestling with React idioms instead of leaning on timeless software patterns,” Piirainen wrote. “Nue emphasizes a model-first approach, delivering modular design with simple, testable functions, true static typing, and minimal dependencies. Nue is a liberating experience for system devs whose skills can finally shine in a separated model layer.”
It’s also a wake-up call for design engineers and UX engineers, he added.
“This is a wake-up call for UX engineers tangled in React hooks and utility class walls instead of owning the user experience,” he wrote. “Build apps as light as a React button to push the web — and your skills — forward.”
Angular.love Site’s Migration Off WordPress to … What Else? Angular
You probably wouldn’t expect this but since its inception, the website angular.love has been built on WordPress, rather than Angular, according to Dominik Donoch, an Angular.love blogger and developer at House of Angular.
Partly that’s because of how the site began. Angular.love started in 2016 as a blog solely for a Polish audience, according to Donoch. When it began publishing articles in English in 2020, its reach became global.
Recently, the site migrated off WordPress and its underlying PHP to an Angular-based headless architecture, which Donoch called “a process filled with challenges, discoveries, and plenty of learning moments.”
“I believe many in the community unfairly dismiss PHP, often basing their opinions on memes rather than firsthand experience,” Donoch wrote. “In reality, PHP is a solid language for web development, and WordPress lets us build a website with minimal effort — even without advanced programming skills.”
He walks developers through the transition and team goals for the project, including tough decisions the team had to make along the way. For instance, they opted to use Hono for its web application framework over, say, Nest.js or Fastify.
“Designed with minimal overhead and built on Web Standards, Hono is extremely lightweight and comes with first-class TypeScript support,” he wrote. “ Its minimalistic API provides a better out-of-the-box experience compared to Fastify’s plugin-based system or Koa’s middleware approach.”
The team also chose Signal Store for state management, Tailwind CSS for styling, and Storybook for a design system.
Netlify Partners with Windsurf for Integrated AI Support
Hosted web development platform Netlify announced a partnership with the AI company Windsurf, formerly called Codeium, to add integrated AI prompts and AI agent support.
Windsurf is an AI-powered coding solution offering tools like the Windsurf Editor that bring AI assistance to developers’ workflows. It supports more than 70 languages and integrates with over 40 Integrated Developer Environments (IDEs).
“Through this deep integration, developers using Windsurf’s AI-powered IDE can now build, and deploy with Netlify, full-stack web applications without ever leaving their editor,” the company said in a press release. “This partnership marks a meaningful shift in how fast and frictionless it can be to go from idea to live product.”
From the prompt to the deployment, the entire AI workflow now happens within the IDE, the statement added. That means there’s no manual setup or infrastructure to manage.
“With just one click, Windsurf users can deploy globally on Netlify, skipping the usual setup, configuration, and infrastructure overhead,” the press release said. “Sites are instantly accessible via a custom domain.”
With this new integration, Windsurf is going beyond codegen and editing, adding native deployment capabilities powered by Netlify, such as handling the infrastructure and scaling in real time.
Enterprise-grade security comes standard and includes secrets scanning to prevent publishing API keys publicly.
This partnership supports the new era of intentional Agent Experience (AX), the press release added. Netlify makes AI agents a first-class persona of the platform.
“Either through agents or directly, developers build, deploy, and iterate applications with minimal interactions,” the release stated. “By combining AI-native creation with Netlify’s deployment automation, teams get a complete, end-to-end workflow without ever touching infrastructure.”
Three Recent Resources for Assessing Astro
If you’re curious about Astro, this month’s update includes a list of sites that use the framework and show off its capabilities, including this cool site by creative studio Utsubo.
Astro 5.5 was the latest release when this post was made, but it’s now up to 5.6.1, with the releases in between mostly adding patch changes. Astro 5.5 is a minor release and includes better support for diagramming tools such as Mermaid and D2, experimental sessions gains type safety, and better Markdown compatibility.
When is Astro the right framework? It’s one of the newer frameworks and is designed to be fast. You might not necessarily think of it when you’re setting up a website in a Columbian village with painfully slow and unreliable internet connections, but for programmer Alejo Stereo, it was the perfect framework for his Viva la Selva website.
“Easy. Fast. Lightweight. Scalable. Affordable. Multilingual. Customizable. Ownable,” he wrote. “It checked all the boxes.”
It’s a short read and a nice testimonial for Astro.
In a similar vein, Lucky Media recently published its experience with Astro.
“We’ve used various web frameworks over the years, from WordPress to React with Next.js,” wrote Arlind Musliu, the co-founder and CFO at Lucky Media. “But since we switched to Astro.js as our main framework for content-heavy sites, we’ve seen huge improvements in development efficiency and performance.”
If you’re interested in learning more about Astro, another option would be to explore the documentation. Last week, the webcast Open Source Friday published a video walk-through of the Astro documents.
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