Powering Netherland’s largest real estate platform

As published on "the official State of Vue.js report of 2025" earlier this year, I did a case study to showcase how Funda (real estate platform in the NL) makes use of Vue and Nuxt.

Little intro about Funda?
Funda is the Netherlands' leading real estate listing platform, serving millions of users daily. With hundreds of thousands of property listings and approximately 5 million daily searches, the platform demands exceptional performance, scalability, and search capabilities. Given the possible combination of search parameters and filters to cater to the users’ needs, this isn’t a trivial task. In addition, search engine optimization (SEO) is critical for ensuring visibility in property searches and maintaining a competitive edge for brokers.


How did we use Vue and Nuxt? And why?
Our web application combines modern technologies throughout its stack. For the frontend, we rely on Nuxt 3 with TypeScript and use Tailwind CSS as our CSS framework of choice, which also helps us write consistent styles according to our design system. The backend relies on the .NET framework, incorporating Elasticsearch to handle search functionality. The entire solution is hosted on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.

Beyond that, essential performance defaults, such as automatic code-splitting by route or predefined cache headers for assets, helped us get a good baseline. The built-in filesystem-based routing structure is also a big plus, as it makes navigation between listings and pages much simpler than solely using Vue Router (which is possible in Nuxt, too, if needed).

One key feature that makes domain-driven design possible is Nuxt's layer system. This allows us to split our codebase into multiple layers representing a domain. Each layer can have its own BFF and export its components. This makes it easy to separate concerns and keep the codebase clean and maintainable. Further, the layer system makes it easy to auto-import composables, components, and utilities, which is a big plus. Eventually, we benefit from further enhancements the Nuxt team ships consistently, from performance to developer experience improvements.