Nuxt 3 (Full Platform Rebuild)

Associated with The Manchester Metropolitan University

Overview

Led the architectural redesign and migration of a large-scale, customer-facing course pages platform, transitioning from Nuxt 2 → Nuxt 3. What began as a framework upgrade evolved into a full application rebuild to meet modern frontend architecture standards, performance requirements, and long-term maintainability goals.

My role

I owned the migration strategy and acted as technical lead for the rebuild workstream:

• Defined the migration plan, delivery roadmap, and phased implementation approach
• Assessed risks and created mitigations for a high-change platform transition
• Drove architectural decisions and established updated engineering patterns

Architectural leadership

Migration strategy

• Defined phased delivery to maintain business continuity during transition
• Balanced feature parity with architectural improvements under tight timelines

Modern Nuxt 3 architecture

• Re-architected the frontend to leverage Nuxt 3’s ecosystem:
  • Composition API
  • improved SSR model
  • Vite-based tooling
• Established patterns for:
  • state management
  • API integration
  • component structure and reuse
  • performance considerations and caching mindset

Challenges

• This was my first large-scale implementation using Nuxt at this depth
• Required rapid technical evaluation, trade-off decisions, and leadership at pace
• Managed technical risk while keeping the platform stable for users

Outcome

• Improved performance and future-proofed the platform against framework deprecation
• Delivered architectural foundations for maintainability and long-term iteration
• Maintained business continuity during a high-risk rebuild