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Nuxt, Next, Nest?! My Head Hurts.

Laurie on September 10, 2019

There are currently three similarly named technologies in the JavaScript ecosystem. I can't keep track of them, so I'm going to write a post for my...
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highasthedn

Would also use German frameworks like Näxt, Nüxt or Nöxt

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Nicext (—:

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Laurie

Hahaha amazing

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Mark Pieszak

Excellent write up Laurie! I'm happy to see how you distinguished NestJS to avoid confusion for others! :)

A nice way for others to think about NestJS for anyone still confused:

Think of it as a superset or abstraction ABOVE Node.js.
It can be interchangeably used with Express or Fastify under the hood.

But it's an amazingly declarative, structured, dependency-injection flavored layer on-top of Node.js that let's you build really organized serverside applications.

Great write up again!

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Laurie

That’s a great way of putting it. Appreciate you adding that 😊 I’m always of the belief that multiple explanations help different people understand topics.

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Mark Pieszak

Definitely!! We've also been experiencing a bit of confusion with Nest (due to the unfortunate name similarity).
You made my day with your spot on explanation!! Bravo :)

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Laurie

Thanks so much :) Was a nice excuse to make sure I knew the differences!

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Sam

Coming soon Naxt, the same concept for Angular.

Make angular great again!!

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Alexis Zucco

It's really difficult to look for info about Nest without getting a lot of Next results XD

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Stefanos Kouroupis

I actually thought in the beginning it was about elasticsearch's .net client, called NEST :P ...and I thought that's a bit random.

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Chris Achard

I remember first hearing about both Next and Nuxt and not realizing they were different at first... it's all so confusing 🤣 (naming is hard)

Also didn't know about Nest; looks neat - thanks!

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Luis A. Ochoa R.

Great post! I was a bit confused about these terms, but now I can see these in a clearly way.

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Adam Crockett 🌀

It's like you swallowed a bee 🐝.