hey all, got some interesting news. I’m working with the author of the Vite SSR plugin to develop an SST example to add to their repo 👍 nice to have another SSR serverless option! I’ll post a link here once it’s done and fully tested

Nice one

I don’t know Vite.

I use Nuxt now and really dislike it

Wow nice!

Nuxt’s developer experience is.. not great. and just feels clunky to me

That's an unusual opinion on Nuxt, what don't you like about it? (I know Vue well but not done much with Nuxt)

I find the whole module system confusing (

buildModules

vs

modules

), there’s plugins, middleware, two ways to fetch data on the server side.. it’s a little unwieldy. and I also recently realized all the server-side data you return to the client is fully exposed in the source code without any kind of obfuscation

That's awesome Sam!

@Jay my schedule is finally calming down as we’re approaching soft launch. I might spend some time doing a write-up on building an SST + Vite SSR app

Oh we do it using the

--example

flag.

Ah! I didn't notice that flag when I ran the CLI app

really interesting to hear that opinion on nuxt too. i'm far from the vue world. i would think if nuxt works with vite, it'd be great (or anthing that uses esbuild or swc now).

ok, I have a real-world example of why I find Nuxt so frustrating: trying to have a

/robots.txt

“file” set up for my app. I figured I’d use the server middleware to do this.. so

/robots.txt

calls a function that just does a

res.end(robotsText)

and doesn’t render any pages. it works fine locally in dev mode, but once I deploy, the server middleware fails to execute. 🤷‍♂️

Although I don't have experience myself this really surprises me as so many in the Vue community enthuse about it. Are you in the Vue Land discord?

I am. but you’re supposed to go to the Nuxt server for help. sometimes I get answers to my questions, but it’s rare

Thanks Sam, you've given me pause. I was considering moving some of our frontends to Nuxt for SSR purposes, I think I consider other options now. I'm intrigued how vite works for that, we're already using it for local dev in a couple of apps.

I mean, maybe it’s just me. or, as it occurred to me today, I might be having problems because I’m using Nuxt as a serverless web app. I think if you put it on a plain old 24/7 server, it’s probably ok. maybe I’m wrong about that, I don’t know all I know is, it’s pretty crazy in 2021 for an SSR framework to not have clear instructions or examples on setting up & deploying for Lambda

Great, thanks Sam

Appreciate it!