diff --git a/lib/builder/builder.js b/lib/builder/builder.js
index d3cccca87a..1dbef90a59 100644
--- a/lib/builder/builder.js
+++ b/lib/builder/builder.js
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ import pify from 'pify'
 import webpack from 'webpack'
 import serialize from 'serialize-javascript'
 import { join, resolve, basename, extname, dirname } from 'path'
-import Tapable from 'tappable'
 import MFS from 'memory-fs'
 import webpackDevMiddleware from 'webpack-dev-middleware'
 import webpackHotMiddleware from 'webpack-hot-middleware'
@@ -24,9 +23,8 @@ debug.color = 2 // Force green color
 
 const glob = pify(Glob)
 
-export default class Builder extends Tapable {
+export default class Builder {
   constructor(nuxt) {
-    super()
     this.nuxt = nuxt
     this.isStatic = false // Flag to know if the build is for a generated app
     this.options = nuxt.options
@@ -57,9 +55,6 @@ export default class Builder extends Tapable {
     this.vueLoader = vueLoaderConfig.bind(this)
 
     this._buildStatus = STATUS.INITIAL
-
-    // Call class hook
-    this.nuxt.applyPlugins('builder', this)
   }
 
   get plugins() {
@@ -121,8 +116,8 @@ export default class Builder extends Tapable {
     // Wait for nuxt ready
     await this.nuxt.ready()
 
-    // Wait for build plugins
-    await this.applyPluginsAsync('build', this.options.build)
+    // Call before hook
+    await this.nuxt.callHook('build:before', this, this.options.build)
 
     // Babel options
     this.babelOptions = _.defaults(this.options.build.babel, {
@@ -183,7 +178,8 @@ export default class Builder extends Tapable {
     // Flag to set that building is done
     this._buildStatus = STATUS.BUILD_DONE
 
-    await this.applyPluginsAsync('built')
+    // Call done hook
+    await this.nuxt.callHook('build:done', this)
 
     return this
   }
@@ -267,7 +263,7 @@ export default class Builder extends Tapable {
       templateVars.router.routes = this.options.build.createRoutes(this.options.srcDir)
     }
 
-    await this.applyPluginsAsync('extendRoutes', templateVars.router.routes)
+    await this.nuxt.callHook('build:extendRoutes', templateVars.router.routes, r)
 
     // router.extendRoutes method
     if (typeof this.options.router.extendRoutes === 'function') {
@@ -335,7 +331,7 @@ export default class Builder extends Tapable {
       }
     }
 
-    await this.applyPluginsAsync('generate', { templatesFiles, templateVars, resolve: r })
+    await this.nuxt.callHook('build:templates', { templatesFiles, templateVars, resolve: r })
 
     // Interpret and move template files to .nuxt/
     await Promise.all(templatesFiles.map(async ({ src, dst, options, custom }) => {
@@ -374,8 +370,6 @@ export default class Builder extends Tapable {
       const dateFS = Date.now() / 1000 - 1000
       return utimes(path, dateFS, dateFS)
     }))
-
-    await this.applyPluginsAsync('generated')
   }
 
   async webpackBuild() {
@@ -436,11 +430,11 @@ export default class Builder extends Tapable {
     // Start Builds
     await sequence(this.compilers, (compiler) => new Promise(async (resolve, reject) => {
       const name = compiler.options.name
-      await this.applyPluginsAsync('compile', { name, compiler })
+      await this.nuxt.callHook('build:compile', { name, compiler })
 
       // Resolve only when compiler emit done event
       compiler.plugin('done', async (stats) => {
-        await this.applyPluginsAsync('compiled', { name, compiler, stats })
+        await this.nuxt.callHook('build:compiled', { name, compiler, stats })
         process.nextTick(resolve)
       })
       // --- Dev Build ---
@@ -511,7 +505,7 @@ export default class Builder extends Tapable {
     }
 
     // Stop webpack middleware on nuxt.close()
-    this.nuxt.plugin('close', () => new Promise(resolve => {
+    this.nuxt.hook('close', () => new Promise(resolve => {
       this.webpackDevMiddleware.close(() => resolve())
     }))
 
@@ -548,7 +542,7 @@ export default class Builder extends Tapable {
       .on('change', refreshFiles)
 
     // Stop watching on nuxt.close()
-    this.nuxt.plugin('close', () => {
+    this.nuxt.hook('close', () => {
       filesWatcher.close()
       customFilesWatcher.close()
     })
diff --git a/lib/builder/generator.js b/lib/builder/generator.js
index da49c7fafc..750bc51510 100644
--- a/lib/builder/generator.js
+++ b/lib/builder/generator.js
@@ -2,15 +2,13 @@ import { copy, remove, writeFile, mkdirp, removeSync, existsSync } from 'fs-extr
 import _ from 'lodash'
 import { resolve, join, dirname, sep } from 'path'
 import { minify } from 'html-minifier'
-import Tapable from 'tappable'
 import { isUrl, promisifyRoute, waitFor, flatRoutes } from 'utils'
 import Debug from 'debug'
 
 const debug = Debug('nuxt:generate')
 
-export default class Generator extends Tapable {
+export default class Generator {
   constructor(nuxt, builder) {
-    super()
     this.nuxt = nuxt
     this.options = nuxt.options
     this.builder = builder
@@ -20,28 +18,26 @@ export default class Generator extends Tapable {
     this.srcBuiltPath = resolve(this.options.buildDir, 'dist')
     this.distPath = resolve(this.options.rootDir, this.options.generate.dir)
     this.distNuxtPath = join(this.distPath, (isUrl(this.options.build.publicPath) ? '' : this.options.build.publicPath))
-
-    // Call class hook
-    this.nuxt.applyPlugins('generator', this)
   }
 
   async generate({ build = true, init = true } = {}) {
+    // Wait for nuxt be ready
+    await this.nuxt.ready()
+
+    // Call before hook
+    await this.nuxt.callHook('generate:before', this, this.options.generate)
+
     const s = Date.now()
     let errors = []
 
     // Add flag to set process.static
     this.builder.forGenerate()
 
-    // Wait for nuxt be ready
-    await this.nuxt.ready()
-
     // Start build process
     if (build) {
       await this.builder.build()
     }
 
-    await this.nuxt.applyPluginsAsync('generator', this)
-
     // Initialize dist directory
     if (init) {
       await this.initDist()
@@ -63,7 +59,8 @@ export default class Generator extends Tapable {
     let routes = (this.options.router.mode === 'hash') ? ['/'] : flatRoutes(this.options.router.routes)
     routes = this.decorateWithPayloads(routes, generateRoutes)
 
-    await this.applyPluginsAsync('generate', routes)
+    // extendRoutes hook
+    await this.nuxt.callHook('generate:extendRoutes', routes)
 
     // Start generate process
     while (routes.length) {
@@ -87,7 +84,8 @@ export default class Generator extends Tapable {
     const duration = Math.round((Date.now() - s) / 100) / 10
     debug(`HTML Files generated in ${duration}s`)
 
-    await this.applyPluginsAsync('generated', errors)
+    // done hook
+    await this.nuxt.callHook('generate:done', this, errors)
 
     if (errors.length) {
       const report = errors.map(({ type, route, error }) => {
diff --git a/lib/common/options.js b/lib/common/options.js
index 2d708f3b23..fc31e04878 100755
--- a/lib/common/options.js
+++ b/lib/common/options.js
@@ -291,6 +291,7 @@ Options.defaults = {
   editor: {
     editor: 'code'
   },
+  hooks: () => {},
   messages: {
     error_404: 'This page could not be found',
     server_error: 'Server error',
diff --git a/lib/core/module.js b/lib/core/module.js
index 257c5fad02..d55eed13f0 100755
--- a/lib/core/module.js
+++ b/lib/core/module.js
@@ -2,27 +2,24 @@ import path from 'path'
 import fs from 'fs'
 import { uniq } from 'lodash'
 import hash from 'hash-sum'
-import Tapable from 'tappable'
 import { chainFn, sequence } from 'utils'
 import Debug from 'debug'
 
 const debug = Debug('nuxt:module')
 
-export default class ModuleContainer extends Tapable {
+export default class ModuleContainer {
   constructor(nuxt) {
-    super()
     this.nuxt = nuxt
     this.options = nuxt.options
     this.requiredModules = []
-
-    // Call class hook
-    this.nuxt.applyPlugins('moduleContainer', this)
   }
 
   async ready() {
+    this.nuxt.callHook('modules:before', this, this.options.modules)
     // Load every module in sequence
     await sequence(this.options.modules, this.addModule.bind(this))
-    await this.applyPluginsAsync('ready')
+    // Call done hook
+    await this.nuxt.callHook('modules:done', this)
   }
 
   addVendor(vendor) {
@@ -102,42 +99,43 @@ export default class ModuleContainer extends Tapable {
 
     // Allows passing runtime options to each module
     const options = moduleOpts.options || (typeof moduleOpts === 'object' ? moduleOpts : {})
-    const originalSrc = moduleOpts.src || moduleOpts
+    const src = moduleOpts.src || moduleOpts
 
     // Resolve module
-    let module = originalSrc
-    if (typeof module === 'string') {
-      module = require(this.nuxt.resolvePath(module))
+    let module
+    if (typeof src === 'string') {
+      module = require(this.nuxt.resolvePath(src))
     }
 
     // Validate module
     /* istanbul ignore if */
     if (typeof module !== 'function') {
-      throw new Error(`[nuxt] Module ${JSON.stringify(originalSrc)} should export a function`)
+      throw new Error(`[nuxt] Module ${JSON.stringify(src)} should export a function`)
     }
 
     // Module meta
-    if (!module.meta) {
-      module.meta = {}
-    }
-    if (module.meta.name) {
-      const alreadyRequired = this.requiredModules.indexOf(module.meta.name) !== -1
+    module.meta = module.meta || {}
+    let name = module.meta.name || module.name
+
+    // If requireOnce specified & module from NPM or with specified name
+    if (requireOnce && name) {
+      const alreadyRequired = this.requiredModules.indexOf(name) !== -1
       if (requireOnce && alreadyRequired) {
         return
       }
       if (!alreadyRequired) {
-        this.requiredModules.push(module.meta.name)
+        this.requiredModules.push(name)
       }
     }
 
     // Call module with `this` context and pass options
-    const m = await new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
-      const result = module.call(this, options, (err, m) => {
+    await new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+      const result = module.call(this, options, (err) => {
         /* istanbul ignore if */
         if (err) {
           return reject(err)
         }
-        resolve(m)
+        resolve()
       })
       // If module send back a promise
       if (result && result.then instanceof Function) {
@@ -145,9 +143,8 @@ export default class ModuleContainer extends Tapable {
       }
       // If not expecting a callback but returns no promise (=synchronous)
       if (module.length < 2) {
-        return resolve(module)
+        return resolve()
       }
     })
-    await this.applyPluginsAsync('module', { meta: module.meta, module: m })
   }
 }
diff --git a/lib/core/nuxt.js b/lib/core/nuxt.js
index 9e94dd6267..da6dd0358d 100644
--- a/lib/core/nuxt.js
+++ b/lib/core/nuxt.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-import Tapable from 'tappable'
 import chalk from 'chalk'
 import { Options } from 'common'
+import { sequence } from 'utils'
 import ModuleContainer from './module'
 import Renderer from './renderer'
 import Debug from 'debug'
@@ -11,10 +11,8 @@ import { join, resolve } from 'path'
 const debug = Debug('nuxt:')
 debug.color = 5
 
-export default class Nuxt extends Tapable {
+export default class Nuxt {
   constructor(options = {}) {
-    super()
-
     this.options = Options.from(options)
 
     // Paths for resolving requires from `rootDir`
@@ -22,6 +20,9 @@ export default class Nuxt extends Tapable {
 
     this.initialized = false
     this.errorHandler = this.errorHandler.bind(this)
+    // Hooks
+    this._hooks = {}
+    this.hook = this.hook.bind(this)
 
     // Create instance of core components
     this.moduleContainer = new ModuleContainer(this)
@@ -40,17 +41,35 @@ export default class Nuxt extends Tapable {
       return this._ready
     }
 
+    // Call hooks
+    if (typeof this.options.hooks === 'function') {
+      this.options.hooks(this.hook)
+    }
+    // Add nuxt modules
     await this.moduleContainer.ready()
-    await this.applyPluginsAsync('ready')
     await this.renderer.ready()
 
     this.initialized = true
+    await this.callHook('ready', this)
+
     return this
   }
 
+  hook(name, fn) {
+    this._hooks[name] = this._hooks[name] || []
+    this._hooks[name].push(fn)
+  }
+
+  async callHook(name, ...args) {
+    if (!this._hooks[name]) {
+      return
+    }
+    await sequence(this._hooks[name], (fn) => fn(...args))
+  }
+
   listen(port = 3000, host = 'localhost') {
     return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
-      const server = this.renderer.app.listen({ port, host, exclusive: false }, err => {
+      const server = this.renderer.app.listen({ port, host, exclusive: false }, (err) => {
         /* istanbul ignore if */
         if (err) {
           return reject(err)
@@ -61,7 +80,7 @@ export default class Nuxt extends Tapable {
         console.log('\n' + chalk.bgGreen.black(' OPEN ') + chalk.green(` http://${_host}:${port}\n`))
 
         // Close server on nuxt close
-        this.plugin('close', () => new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+        this.hook('close', () => new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
           // Destroy server by forcing every connection to be closed
           server.destroy(err => {
             debug('server closed')
@@ -73,7 +92,7 @@ export default class Nuxt extends Tapable {
           })
         }))
 
-        resolve(this.applyPluginsAsync('listen', { server, port, host }))
+        this.callHook('listen', server, { port, host }).then(resolve)
       })
 
       // Add server.destroy(cb) method
@@ -84,7 +103,7 @@ export default class Nuxt extends Tapable {
   errorHandler/* istanbul ignore next */() {
     // Apply plugins
     // eslint-disable-next-line no-console
-    this.applyPluginsAsync('error', ...arguments).catch(console.error)
+    this.callHook('error', ...arguments).catch(console.error)
 
     // Silent
     if (this.options.errorHandler === false) {
@@ -119,7 +138,7 @@ export default class Nuxt extends Tapable {
   }
 
   async close(callback) {
-    await this.applyPluginsAsync('close')
+    await this.callHook('close', this)
 
     /* istanbul ignore if */
     if (typeof callback === 'function') {
diff --git a/lib/core/renderer.js b/lib/core/renderer.js
index e3dc16236e..6c09c18001 100644
--- a/lib/core/renderer.js
+++ b/lib/core/renderer.js
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ import ansiHTML from 'ansi-html'
 import serialize from 'serialize-javascript'
 import generateETag from 'etag'
 import fresh from 'fresh'
-import Tapable from 'tappable'
 import serveStatic from 'serve-static'
 import compression from 'compression'
 import _ from 'lodash'
@@ -24,9 +23,8 @@ setAnsiColors(ansiHTML)
 
 let jsdom = null
 
-export default class Renderer extends Tapable {
+export default class Renderer {
   constructor(nuxt) {
-    super()
     this.nuxt = nuxt
     this.options = nuxt.options
 
@@ -49,12 +47,10 @@ export default class Renderer extends Tapable {
       spaTemplate: null,
       errorTemplate: parseTemplate('Nuxt.js Internal Server Error')
     }
-
-    // Call class hook
-    this.nuxt.applyPlugins('renderer', this)
   }
 
   async ready() {
+    await this.nuxt.callHook('render:before', this, this.options.render)
     // Setup nuxt middleware
     await this.setupMiddleware()
 
@@ -63,8 +59,8 @@ export default class Renderer extends Tapable {
       await this.loadResources()
     }
 
-    // Call ready plugin
-    await this.applyPluginsAsync('ready')
+    // Call done hook
+    await this.nuxt.callHook('render:done', this)
   }
 
   async loadResources(_fs = fs) {
@@ -109,7 +105,7 @@ export default class Renderer extends Tapable {
     }
 
     // Call resourcesLoaded plugin
-    await this.applyPluginsAsync('resourcesLoaded', this.resources)
+    await this.nuxt.callHook('render:resourcesLoaded', this.resources)
 
     if (updated.length > 0) {
       this.createRenderer()
@@ -195,7 +191,7 @@ export default class Renderer extends Tapable {
 
   async setupMiddleware() {
     // Apply setupMiddleware from modules first
-    await this.applyPluginsAsync('setupMiddleware', this.app)
+    await this.nuxt.callHook('render:setupMiddleware', this.app)
 
     // Gzip middleware for production
     if (!this.options.dev && this.options.render.gzip) {
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index d6397fdf3b..d3c3d6c877 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -107,7 +107,6 @@
     "server-destroy": "^1.0.1",
     "source-map": "^0.6.1",
     "source-map-support": "^0.5.0",
-    "tappable": "^1.1.0",
     "uglifyjs-webpack-plugin": "^1.0.1",
     "url-loader": "^0.6.2",
     "vue": "^2.5.2",
diff --git a/test/fixtures/module/modules/tapable/index.js b/test/fixtures/module/modules/hooks/index.js
similarity index 66%
rename from test/fixtures/module/modules/tapable/index.js
rename to test/fixtures/module/modules/hooks/index.js
index fa5bd572ef..2c0e2949d0 100644
--- a/test/fixtures/module/modules/tapable/index.js
+++ b/test/fixtures/module/modules/hooks/index.js
@@ -2,17 +2,17 @@ module.exports = function () {
   let ctr = 1
 
   // Add hook for module
-  this.plugin('ready', moduleContainer => {
+  this.plugin('modules:done', (moduleContainer) => {
     this.nuxt.__module_hook = moduleContainer && ctr++
   })
 
   // Add hook for renderer
-  this.nuxt.plugin('renderer', renderer => {
+  this.nuxt.hook('render:done', (renderer) => {
     this.nuxt.__renderer_hook = renderer && ctr++
   })
 
   // Add hook for build
-  this.nuxt.plugin('build', builder => {
+  this.nuxt.plugin('build:done', (builder) => {
     this.nuxt.__builder_hook = builder && ctr++
   })
 }
diff --git a/test/fixtures/module/nuxt.config.js b/test/fixtures/module/nuxt.config.js
index 9b53c2a7d1..d60660981f 100755
--- a/test/fixtures/module/nuxt.config.js
+++ b/test/fixtures/module/nuxt.config.js
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ module.exports = {
   loading: true,
   modules: [
     '~/modules/basic',
-    '~/modules/tapable',
+    '~/modules/hooks',
     {
       src: '~/modules/middleware',
       options: {
diff --git a/test/module.test.js b/test/module.test.js
index 26ac78c81d..a7e6c8eeb1 100755
--- a/test/module.test.js
+++ b/test/module.test.js
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ test('Middleware', async t => {
   t.is(response, 'It works!', '/api response is correct')
 })
 
-test('Tapable', async t => {
+test('Hooks', async t => {
   t.is(nuxt.__module_hook, 1)
   t.is(nuxt.__renderer_hook, 2)
   t.is(nuxt.__builder_hook, 3)
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 1ec7e417c8..f36ff3232c 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -6488,17 +6488,10 @@ table@^4.0.1:
     slice-ansi "1.0.0"
     string-width "^2.1.1"
 
-tapable@^0.2.6, tapable@^0.2.7:
+tapable@^0.2.7:
   version "0.2.8"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/tapable/-/tapable-0.2.8.tgz#99372a5c999bf2df160afc0d74bed4f47948cd22"
 
-tappable@^1.1.0:
-  version "1.1.0"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/tappable/-/tappable-1.1.0.tgz#521770dea7dc4715d48ddb4c471071afee012025"
-  dependencies:
-    pify "^3.0.0"
-    tapable "^0.2.6"
-
 tar-pack@^3.4.0:
   version "3.4.1"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/tar-pack/-/tar-pack-3.4.1.tgz#e1dbc03a9b9d3ba07e896ad027317eb679a10a1f"