Nuxt Berry

Build Nuxt apps using Yarn 2 (berry).

Why use this?

Yarn 2 was released earlier this year. It brings major improvements such as...

• Improved workspaces
• Plug'n'Play
• Zero-Installs

These new features are particularly valuable to large monorepo projects with complex CI pipelines.

However, Nuxt does not currently install correctly when using Yarn 2. Some changes need to be made to support Plug'n'Play dependency resolution. With Yarn 2 compatibility not coming natively until Nuxt 3, I created this light wrapper to make Nuxt 2 ❤️ Yarn 2.

Nuxt Berry should behave exactly like Nuxt, but with Yarn 2 support.

Important: This is just a proof of concept right now. I do not recommend anyone use this in production yet.

Intended usage

Please note that this is not deployed yet!

Once it is, usage will look like this...

yarn add nuxt-berry

Then add the following scripts to the package.json file for your project...

{
  "scripts": {
    "dev": "nuxt-berry dev",
    "build": "nuxt-berry build",
    "start": "nuxt-berry start"
  }
}

Try it out

For now, you should use this as a demo of future functionality.

First, clone this repo. Then...

cd examples/basic-app

# run in dev mode
yarn dev

# or run in prod mode
yarn build
yarn start

Notice how you did not need to run yarn install at any point in the process? Yay Yarn 2!

The road to v1

• Nuxt Berry isn't deployed anywhere. (#1)
• Nuxt Berry doesn't resolve all dependencies properly inside Yarn 2 yet. (#2)
• Nuxt Berry doesn't support generate. (#3)
• Nuxt Berry doesn't support custom rootDir, srcDir, or buildDir properties in nuxt.config.js. (#4)
• Nuxt Berry doesn't support auto component registration using components: true. (#5)
• Nuxt Berry doesn't have any tests. (#6)
• Nuxt Berry needs a new home. (#7)

Please report any other issues here.

If this catches on and hits v1, I can maintain it until Nuxt 3 comes out.

Why I built this

Short answer... I needed it for work.

Long answer... We have a large monorepo containing several Nuxt applications. We are tired of waiting 5-10 minutes for our CI pipeline to run yarn install on every commit. We want to make the transition to Yarn 2, which will significantly increase the performance of our CI pipelines, but we can't do it without Nuxt.

License

MIT (just like Nuxt)