New in Vue - June 2026

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It is really hot outside here in Prague this week. It is expected the temperatures may even attack the all-time highs on Sunday. But do you know what is also hot? The news about Vue, Nuxt, Vite & co. Here goes another of my monthly recaps.

Vue just have released its 3.5.39 patch version. With like two versions per month, the team is focusing on polishing and sweeping away bugs. Meanwhile, the highly anticipated vapor mode feature is boiling up. I announced its beta version in December. Since then, we’ve got 17 beta releases, lately in roughly weekly cadence. Each one is bringing a number of new fixes and improvements, mostly to the vapor mode related code. While I must admit I expected a bit faster progression and that we would already have Vue 3.6 officially released by now, this thorough development and testing will surely help delivering quality and useful update. I hope it will land soon.

We Nuxters are still dreaming of v5, which is still a bit ahead, and waiting for v4.5, which should be there soon. Right now, there is v4.4.8 and the respective v3.21.8 backport being the latest available versions. While waiting for the new features to land, how about getting deeper into existing stuff? I found this genuinely well written article about testing in Nuxt. It covers and explains some pain points of trying to run isolated tests in Nuxt environment and gives practical examples of how to do it.

Vite announced v8.1 on June 23. The list of new features include: Experimental Bundled Dev Mode for faster dev startups and reloads, support for Wasm ESM integration, progress towards adopting Lighting CSS and a new additionalAssetSources option for more versatile HTML assets discovery. You can find details in the linked article.

And one more announcement laned in ViteLand. VoidZero, the company behind Vite and the associated technologies, became the part of Cloudflare On June 4th. You can read more details in the official announcement. After NuxtLabs joined Vercel last year, this is another move to secure broader Vue.js ecosystem. Like it or not, maintaining popular open-source tools and doing it well is a full-time job. And full-time jobs need to be paid. I still believe our community will only profit from it.

Last week, Microsoft had announced first release candidate for TypeScript 7.0. Unlike the recent v6 bridge, this version is set to bring real improvement and speed after its core have been re-written to Go language. The developers claim that TypeScript 7.0 is often about 10 times faster than TypeScript 6.0. Aside from that there are also numerous changes in default behavior and settings, so before migration, make sure to check what is different.

If you are into watching conference talk videos, Frontend Nation released streams from 2026 issue in early June. Watch them HERE. The focus is broader than just Vue.js, but many topics are common for frontend development in general and they're totally worth noticing.

I have exhausted myself for now. Enjoy the upcoming summer (providing you're not living on the southern hemisphere, if you do, enjoy your winter instead) and see you again with the new portion of New in Vue soon.

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