Nuxt vs Vite

Nuxt and Vite are both open source static site generators. Nuxt is written in JavaScript and Vite is written in Python.

Property Nuxt Vite
Language JavaScript Python
Templates Vue Jinja2
License MIT MIT

Nuxt benefits

An easy way to export your Vue.js Web Application into a static website.

Easy to use

Write your content in Vue files only. No configuration is needed, just write your Application with Vue.js components.

Customisable

If you want to write you content in markdown files, its super easy with the vue markdown filter

You can extend your Application, Blog or Website with some packages on the NPM ecosystem.

Nuxt will help you generate and deploy a Vue.js Web Application faster than before.

Static and dynamic

Vue SSR is used to generate pages for both client and server; It's called Isomorphic/ Universal rendering.

Then you can run nuxt generate to generate your static website into a ./dist forlder and deploy it everywhere: Netlify, Githup pages, Gitlab, AWS3, etc.

Setup a project in a minute

Creating a website based on Nuxt only takes a minute. Quick introduction of Nuxt : 1 minute

Vite benefits

A simple and minimal static site generator that just works™.

Sometimes, less is more

Installation

pip install vite

Usage

vite new [path]
vite build
vite serve

That's it, no nonsense.