Nico Devs · Laravel, Vue & Nuxt Developer

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Hello!Hi! I am Nico.

Lead Programmer at Tighten and former Tech Lead at VueSchool, with over 15 years of experience building web applications. Laravel, Vue.js, Nuxt, and Tailwind rock! Here you'll find my articles and projects.

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Selected Experience

Tighten

2023 - Present

Lead Programmer

Laravel Partner Agency

→ Promoted from Programmer to Lead Programmer in 2025
→ Author of technical articles on the company blog

VueSchool

2019 - 2023

Tech Lead

Official Vue Tranining Platform

→ Built the Official Vue.js Certification program
→ Led a team of four engineers

Perfit

2014 - 2019

Front-End Lead Software Developer

Email Marketing Service

→ Created "Eddie," a responsive email template editor
→ Built the web app used by thousands of customers

LatinCloud

2009 - 2014

Fullstack Web Developer

Cloud Hosting

→ Developed shared hosting control panel app
→ Launched an email tool delivering 10M+ emails in year one

Latest Articles

May 28, 2026·Vue

Real-Time Vue Apps, Part 3: WebRTC and PeerJS

Direct, peer-to-peer connections with WebRTC: a friendly tour of SDP, ICE, STUN, and TURN, plus how PeerJS makes building chats and video calls actually fun.

May 27, 2026·Vue

Real-Time Vue Apps, Part 2: WebSockets and Real-Time Databases

Bidirectional real-time with WebSockets, built right into Nuxt thanks to Nitro. Plus a tour of real-time databases like Firebase and Supabase, and how they use WebSockets under the hood.

May 26, 2026·Vue

Real-Time Vue Apps, Part 1: Polling and Server-Sent Events

A series on adding real-time features to your Vue and Nuxt apps. We kick things off with the bad old days of polling, and then move on to Server-Sent Events, the simplest way to push from server to client.

Chat with Your Documents: A Practical Guide to RAG Using the New Laravel AI SDK

February 18, 2026·AI· An article for

Chat with Your Documents: A Practical Guide to RAG Using the New Laravel AI SDK

The new Laravel AI SDK makes it significantly easier to integrate AI into your Laravel applications. In this article I wrote for Tighten, I walk through how to use it to build a RAG system.

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