Nuxt 4.4 brings custom useFetch/useAsyncData factories, vue-router v5, a new accessibility announcer, typed layout props, build profiling, smarter payload handling, and much more.

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Nuxt 4.4 ships several developer experience and performance improvements. Key additions include createUseFetch/createUseAsyncData factories for custom composable instances with typed defaults, an upgrade to vue-router v5 (dropping unplugin-vue-router), typed layout props via definePageMeta, and a new useAnnouncer composable for accessibility announcements. Route generation migrates to the unrouting library using a trie structure, delivering up to 28x faster dev server updates. Smarter payload handling for cached/ISR routes reduces redundant SSR re-renders in serverless environments. Other highlights: useCookie refresh option for session expiration, useState reset-to-default behavior, improved import protection with traces and suggestions, view transition types support, build profiling via nuxt build --profile, and a 14,000x faster module ID parsing optimization.

Nuxt 4.4 · Nuxt Blog

🏭 createUseFetch and createUseAsyncData

💪 Typed Layout Props in definePageMeta

🍫 Smarter Payload Handling for Cached Routes

🕵️‍♂️ Better Import Protection

🏷️ Normalised Page Component Names (Experimental)

<p>This is good update. Love it. Waiting for Nuxt 5 with Nitro v3.</p>


<p>loved nuxt. really good framework!</p>
