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Daniel Roe, creator of full-stack, progressive web framework Nuxt.js, and three other members of the Nuxt core team are joining Vercel, Roe announced this week.
Nuxt.com and NuxtLabs creator Sébastien Chopin, Nitro creator Pooya Parsa and Vitest creator Anthony Fu will also join the staff of Vercel. The rest of the team will remain freelance or are employed elsewhere, Roe added.
It’s not unusual for web hosting platform Vercel and its competitor, Netlify, to support JavaScript frameworks by bringing creators on board. Of course, Vercel oversees creation of Next.js, but Netlify once employed Solid’s Ryan Carniato, and Svelte’s Rich Harris is currently a Vercel employee. Recently, TanStack announced that Netlify would be its official deployment provider.
But what might be more significant is the acquisition of Nitro, which underlies a number of meta-frameworks, noted Solid.JS creator Ryan Carniato. Nitro is a server engine used to build web servers. It’s designed to be lightweight and efficient, making it suitable for both simple and complex frontend applications. It’s also used as a standalone tool or as the server backend for full-stack frameworks such as Nuxt.
“This is pretty huge when you consider Nitro powers Nuxt, SolidStart, Tanstack Start, and AnalogJS, adding that to its existing funding of developers working on Next and SvelteKit,” Carniato observed in a tweet. “Basically every metaframework except Astro, Remix, Qwikcity, and Fresh now has its core being developed by developers under @vercel. It’s definitely something to think about.”
From Nuxt’s perspective, not a lot will change, Roe said. Choice in modules, databases, bundlers and routers will remain key to Nuxt, he added.
“As a team, we’ll retain our independence, public roadmap and open governance,” he wrote. “I will continue to lead Nuxt’s technical and strategic direction full-time. And of course our values and commitments remain unchanged.”
Vercel’s involvement will provide the team with more time to invest in making Nuxt better, he added.
“It’s a strong endorsement of our vision — and will help us pursue it more sustainably,” Roe said. “It will also mean that sponsorship we receive from the community can now support even more contributors.”
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board on June 18 dismissed the fraud claim in Deno’s action against Oracle’s JavaScript trademark. Oracle still has until Aug. 7 to respond to the rest of the trademark cancellation claim.
Not surprisingly, Deno and Node.js creator Ryan Dahl disagreed with the decision.
“That claim alleged Oracle knowingly misled the USPTO in its 2019 renewal by submitting a screenshot of the Node.js website to show use of the ‘JavaScript’ trademark,” he wrote. “As the creator of Node.js, I find that especially offensive. Node.js was never an Oracle product or brand. Oracle didn’t create it, didn’t run it, and wasn’t authorized to use it to prop up its trademark. That they reached for a third-party open source site suggests they had no better proof — and knew it.”
But he also acknowledged that fraud was never the centerpiece of Deno’s case against Oracle.
“Everyone uses ‘JavaScript’ to describe a language — not a brand. Not an Oracle product. Just the world’s most popular programming language,” he wrote.
Discovery is set to begin Sept. 6.
Speaking of Deno: Version 2.4 was released on July 2 and it restores deno bundle, which had been deprecated.
“Deno 2.4 restores the deno bundle subcommand for creating single-file JavaScript bundles from JavaScript or TypeScript,” the team wrote. “It supports both server-side and browser platforms, works with npm and JSR dependencies, and includes automatic tree shaking and minification via esbuild.”
The team originally deprecated Deno bundle because they didn’t think they could build it properly, but using esbuild under the hood resolved that challenge.
The team is also working on a runtime API that will make bundling available programmatically in the future. They also plan to add plugins that will allow developers to customize how the bundler processes modules during the build process.
The recent release of the runtime also includes other updates, including marking built-in OpenTelemetry as stable and Node.js API support.
Reuters is reporting that OpenAI plans to release an AI-powered web browser. The browser is slated to launch in the coming weeks and reportedly will use artificial intelligence to fundamentally change the way consumers browse the web.
In related news, this week Perplexity AI debuted its first web browser, called Comet. PC Mag reports that Comet features a chat interface that can automate certain tasks for the user.
