Nue is a minimalist, standards-based web development environment and framework that emphasizes progressive enhancement, separation of concerns, and semantic web design to simplify building modern websites and web applications. It combines a static site generator with support for both multi-page and single-page applications, enabling developers to use extended Markdown, HTML first UI assembly, URL-first state management, and modern CSS for layout and styling while keeping markup clean and optimized for accessibility and SEO. Its entire ecosystem is extremely small in size (about 1MB) yet offers features like universal hot reload, SPA development, dynamic islands, view transitions, content collections, TypeScript support, CSS inlining, API routing, and full-stack previews without heavy tooling or complex configuration. Nue separates content, layout, and logic so designers, content strategists, and developers can work independently.