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nolros's avatar
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Nuxt vs Inertia

Both seem great, but do you have any thoughts on Nuxt vs. Inertia for web app dev? I know it depends. I am just looking to gauge the general trend. My initial assessment is Inertia has more Laravel auth and app scaffolding, whereas Nuxt provides more of a dev platform. Unsure exactly how Inertia works with client-side routing beyond just Axios requests, it does seem to use Vue routers. For SSR you are going to need Node for both. I wonder if anyone has built a Nuxt native Interia-type module or integrated the two.

EDIT - MORE SPECIFICALLY - VUE ECOSYSTEM SUITE VS INTERIA

To be more specific. There is a fair amount of overlap between Vue Suite (Vue + Vue Router + Vue meta + Nuxt + Pinia ++) and Inertia - More so today than a year ago. No question that Inertia is an excellent solution.

If you are a Laravel and Vue shop/company, do you want to do something like Vue Suite + Jetstream & Fortify for auth templates? That way, you have a more versatile platform than Inertia, duplicating some of the Inertia “silky smooth” features.

No question Inertia is a faster time to market, but do you end up porting it across in a year or so to a richer Vue ecosystem? I suppose it boils down to 1. what yo developing, 2. type of dev shop, and 3. ROI, i.e., go with Inertia now, for a faster time to market, with some future risk factor or more heavy lifting in the Vue ecosystem with less risk later.

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inertia is just a Routing library that use backend Route instead of frontend route.

A normal SPA app would parsing the URL on the frontend, then "scrap" it and use its backend as data source, the backend doesnt know what the URL is

Inertiajs on the other hand just use the Routing of the backend framework

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