New in Vue - May 2026

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Oops, I did it again. No "New in Vue" newsletter in April 2026. And it is almost the end of May now. It looks like some months are not meant to be productive. Or rather they are productive in a different way - recently I spend quite a long time away from keyboard recharging my inner batteries in the blooming spring outside. Big respect to everyone who managed to juggle with their work, family life and leisure time and still being able to regularly contribute to Open-Source world and especially the Vue.js ecosystem. Let's see what happened while I was too busy not writing a summary.

Last week, I have a great time in Madrid, the capital city of Spain, where I travelled with the intention to attend MadVue 2026 conference. It was a time well spent learning new things and meeting great people. Not many groundbreaking announcements that would fit in here though. Abdelrahman Awad presented Formwerk, a new form components library with somewhat interesting approach, and Daniel Roe was talking mainly about new features in Nuxt 4.5 that will have to suffice until anticipated Nuxt 5 is finally completed.

Speaking of Nuxt, 4.4.6 and 3.21.6 are the latest available versions with Vue itself released 3.5.35 minor patch just yesterday. While Nuxt team keeps delivering new useful things and tirelessly fixing emerging bugs, the current pace of changes is rather slower. We got Vite 8 but next fundamental releases (Vue 3.6, Nitro 3, Nuxt 5) still haven't matured into stable versions.

I am observing constant evolution of Nuxt UI library, with last minor upgrade being 4.8.0. Each iteration adds some new components and cool features. Also Pinia Colada is being improved, 1.3.1 is the latest version available.

In my last newsletter, I was mourning for the end of Weekly Vue News newsletter. But now I have good news again! Michael Hoffmann is back and he brought us VueDigest. Now the interesting articles, new releases and upcoming conferences are being gathered and published there. And you don't have to wait whole week for the new issue. Win-win.

What may be hated but cannot be overlooked, is the rise of Agentic AI systems. Nuxt team is not falling behind and they have recently introduced their own AI agent for Nuxt. Incorporated directly into nuxt.com website, it can help you answer the questions or generate UI prototypes. And not just by wild random guessing but being guided and steered by the best practices and knowledge directly from Nuxt authors.

The final piece of news for today is personal. And it is a pleasant one. I can proudly announce that there will be PragVue conference in 2026 again. After months of uncertainty, we found a viable solution. And being in Madrid last week, I also found kind speakers willing to participate. For now, I can share the date - September 29, 2026. Very soon, we will start filling the website with all the necessary info. Watch the official website or the associated social media accounts to stay in touch. Looking forward to seeing any of you in late summer Prague.

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