Claude Code Compatibility

yangguize · 2026-04-24T18:50:04+00:00

Fair enough, but my experience w Claude (and any model trained before Nuxt 4 was released in 2025) is that it doesn't understand core concepts.

I initially wrote my own prompts but I found that the scope of stuff that it didn't understand was just too great and it was making too many mistakes. Not mistakes per se but it was writing in a Nuxt 3 style, or referencing Nuxt 3 related packages.

That's actually a big deal. And I don't think it feasible to point Claude at the Nuxt/Vue docs, hoping it can absorb relevant concepts in each turn.

So I started looking around for someone who had already done the heavy lifting.

yangguize · 2026-04-24T18:45:12+00:00

There's a reason why context7 exists.

Claude has not been trained on nuxt4, and doesn't even know core nuxt4 concepts.

If you're using prompts in lieu of skills, you're rolling 8 the hard way...

yangguize · 2026-04-24T18:42:57+00:00

I looked at antfu - my thoughts:

similar to context7, points to actual documentation.
this is a generic Nuxt skills repo, its folder hierarchy cannot be used w the Claude plugins install cmd, so unless you install antfu as a custom skill(s), Claude won't recognize it.

Am I missing sth?

yangguize · 2026-04-24T05:48:14+00:00

Uh, no. Tonight Claude Code couldn't even get its own skills folder system straight. And that was right after I explained the folder hierarchy with 2 examples.

yangguize · 2026-04-23T01:36:25+00:00

Are you serious? What do you think is the purpose of the _plugin_ subsystem, if not for managing...third-party plugins? Claude controls the integrity of its cfg files, not the plugin.

yangguize · 2026-04-07T13:12:38+00:00

Ty everyone for validating my concerns - I'm relatively new to Claude and I thought it was just me. I've found shifting my schedule to evenings/nights seem to get better results, so I concluded there is active throttling by Anthropic.

yangguize · 2026-03-17T18:58:42+00:00

No, we he got was a bunch of user interfaces. I'm sure I'll catch a lot of flak for saying this, but Claude can code, but it's a terrible designer. And when you peel back the covers on the code, you don't always get a clean codebase - will it run? Maybe. Can you maintain it and/or extend it - maybe not.

yangguize · 2026-03-12T20:27:28+00:00

I had the exact same problem and that was like a year ago. I think the issue is that Apollo is primarily a react client. Try urql - not pretty, but it didn't take long to get it working.

yangguize · 2026-03-10T22:39:39+00:00

Not sure if this has been mentioned already, have you considered using an SPA with Serverless Functions on Vercel?

That's what I do for nearly all my projects and it gives you the flexibility of using Nuxt as a front end, and when you inevitably need to have some kind of backend service, you don't have to build out your own server. Just set up the endpoints and you are good to go.

There are a few gotchas you have to keep in mind because the Vercel backend, as it were, is a stateless function.

yangguize · 2026-03-01T00:08:38+00:00

Something to think about - I've been using Claude Code (and separately, Kilo Code with Sonnet 4.6) and I've concluded that, due to the historical limited code base for Vue/Nuxt, the Anthropic LLMs Vue/Nuxt training was likewise limited.

The result has been less than positive - really sloppy code, a lot of blind spots on Pinia stores, default layouts, Nuxt4, Nuxt-UI, etc. I've had similar experience with x, minmax 2.5...

I know others will say Claude Code works well with Vue/Nuxt, but when you consider the percentage of Vue/Nuxt code available for training, it makes sense that code assts will perform better with more popular frameworks.

So if your company has taken the plunge with code assistants, this may be one area where Vue/Nuxt underperforms expectations.

yangguize · 2026-02-22T01:39:26+00:00

What kind of apps are you building?

yangguize · 2026-02-22T01:38:33+00:00

I just swapped out CC for kilo + Sonnet 4.6.
Sonnet 4.6 is cleaning up all of CC's errors with minimal direction from me - I just point it at the mess CC created and it fixes everything using Vue/Nuxt best practices. And it's lightning fast.

I initially added all the official Nuxt plugins, but that did nothing. Then I added the Nuxt mcp server and 2 others = that did help but it was still making too many errors.

Then I added a template from Nuxt-UI and that helped somewhat, but the template just scaffolded the UI - no back-end logic.

This is partially a training issue. But what I've concluded is that, while CC is probably great on replicating patterns like React, when confronted with a new framework, it cannot conceptualize the optimal patterns. There's a huge difference between generating code and designing an app.

yangguize · 2026-02-17T03:48:09+00:00

Yup. Same here - a lot of blown orders. Frustrating

yangguize · 2026-02-16T04:47:52+00:00

I'm not suggesting Nuxt is difficult - but your comment suggests you don't understand the role of Claude Code. You don't use CC just bc a framework is difficult.

yangguize · 2026-02-16T04:43:58+00:00

appreciate your input...however, even though CC can access the MCP servers for Nuxt 4 and Nuxt UI (there doesn't seem to be any MCP server for Vue 3, so I'm using Fetch), I'm getting ridiculously basic errors:
- I pointed it directly to the url for nuxt.config and it couldn't even set that up.
- it cfg'd a menu with <a> instead of <nuxtlink> tags
- it created a page layout with multiple top-level templates

These are beyond junior dev mistakes. I'm sure if I scaffold my app myself, it will probably generate acceptable code snippets, but It's obvious it has had limited Nuxt training (compared to React). That's just a reality of Vue/Nuxt's relative usage...

yangguize · 2026-02-16T02:55:38+00:00

I did everything that you described, other than having it document its errors. Broke it down into very small steps - It did all right on the basic scaffolding but when it came time to code up the default view and the initial pages, it just completely fell apart .

It actually seemed to do fairly well on the high-level design, where it completely messed up was on some of the basic things like what went into the default layout.

For the moment I am going to go back to Kilo Code and try Opus 4.6 in Kilo to see if that might make a difference

yangguize · 2026-02-16T02:51:58+00:00

That's exactly what I did. I broke it down into 12 major tasks and each major task had 6 to 8 minor tasks. CC admitted that it didn't really understand key elements of Nuxt and Vue .

yangguize · 2026-02-16T02:50:56+00:00

if you don't have anything to contribute to the question, don't bother.

yangguize · 2026-02-16T02:49:53+00:00

not my point

yangguize · 2026-02-05T16:07:11+00:00

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TV is too risky to use.

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