Nuxt.js is a Vue.js framework used for building web apps. It can build a complete Vue.js...

Nuxt can build a complete Vue.js client-side rendering app and a static-generated one. Get started by learning to create a Nuxt app using create-nuxt-app.

A Simple Guide to Installing and Creating a Nuxt App

How to Install and Create Your First Nuxt.js App

To complete this tutorial, you will need the following:

Node installed on your computer. You can install Node at nodejs.org. create-nuxt-app requires the latest LTS version installed.

An NPM package manager. It is included by default in your installation of Node.

You will need a good code editor to work with the project files. Visual Studio Code is recommended. Visit "code.visualstudio.com" to download it.

We will be going over the following steps to create a Nuxt app:

Prerequisites

Steps to create a Nuxt app

Open your terminal or command line on your computer, preferably the VS code terminal (go to View > Terminal). This is where you will use the 'npx' tool. Using 'npx' also ensures that you use the latest version of create-nuxt-app to create your project.

Note: For the purpose of this article, first-nuxt-app is the name of the project. So, use 'npx create-nuxt-app first-nuxt-app'.

After writing the command above, you will get some responses in the form of questions in this sequence:

Need to install the following packages: create-nuxt-app

Next, press the Enter key to confirm the project name.

Use the up and down arrow keys to navigate the options and then press the Enter key to confirm.

You can choose what programming language to use. Note: JavaScript is selected for this article.

You can select more than one option for this question. To do this, navigate to each option that you want and press the spacebar key to select the option. You can also select all options by pressing the 'a' key.

For this project, select only Axios - Promise based HTTP client.

ESLint will lint your code on save. Prettier will prettify your code on save.

◯ jsconfig.json (Recommended for VS Code if you're not using typescript)

◯ Dependabot (For auto-updating dependencies, GitHub only)

After answering the questions above, all your dependencies will be installed.

You will see this on the terminal once they are installed:

Now, you need to navigate to your project folder using the command below:

Install create-nuxt-app

Each directory and file is designed to help with a different aspect of the project. We will talk about the main directories. But first, let's see what your project structure looks like after creating the project.

Components are what make up the different parts of your page. They can be reused and imported into pages, layouts, and other components. Those that you use in your project can be stored in this directory.

One of the most important directories in your project is the pages directory since any ".vue" file added to it generates a route automatically. You can create pages for your Nuxt.js app here. You can also create new folders inside the page directory to create nested pages.

The static folder in Nuxt.js houses static files that you can call from your application. It stores static files that will not change, like example.txt, sitemaps, and favicons.

The store directory houses all of your Vuex files. Vuex is a state management pattern and library for Vue.js applications. It serves as a centralized store for all the components in an application, with rules ensuring that the state can only be mutated predictably.

The nuxt.config.js file is an essential part of your project. It houses your Nuxt.js custom configuration and also gives you the ability to configure the application. These configuration options include, among other things, middleware, plugins, authentication, modules, and even API routes.

The packages.json file contains all the dependencies of your Nuxt.js app.

Some folders used to be part of the folder structure but have been omitted in the recent Nuxt.js installation updates. However, you can create them.

After creating these folders, this is how the folder structure will look:

The assets folder houses different types of assets that are used in your app, such as images, fonts, audio files, logos, and styles.

When a new project is created, the Nuxt CLI will create a single layout: default .vue. For many applications, more than a single layout file is needed so that you can set up numerous layouts based on your needs. For example, admin layout, login layout, and dashboard layout. These can be reused on different pages to handle their look and feel.

You can globally register Vue libraries in the main.js section of any typical Vue project. However, because this file is omitted from your Nuxt.js application, the plugins directory is now responsible for fulfilling this obligation.

When using 'Vue.use', you should create a file in the plugins directory and include the file's path in nuxt.config.js.

Middleware serves as a guard between routes in your application, enabling users to restrict access to specific areas of your website to users who meet a specified set of requirements.

Review the folder/file structure

You can use this command to run the Nuxt.js project into development mode:

When you run your project, the development server will start on localhost:3000. You can go to your browser to see your Nuxt app.

And there you have it - a simple guide on how to create a Nuxt app. Practice the steps and review your process until you become properly familiar with it.

Run the Nuxt.js application

Nuxt.js is a Vue.js framework used for building web apps. It can build a complete Vue.js client-side rendering application and a comprehensive static-generated one. This article will walk you through setting up your first Nuxt.js application. We'll utilize Nuxt's create-nuxt-app utility which enables CLI configuration of the application template. We’ll review it step-by-step, so you can quickly and easily create Nuxt apps.

Vuex is a state management pattern + library for Vue.js applications. It serves as a centralized store for all the components in an application, with rules ensuring that the state can only be mutated in a predictable fashion.

Vue.js is a JavaScript framework for building user interfaces. It builds on top of standard HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It provides a declarative and component-based programming model that helps you efficiently develop simple or complex user interfaces.

Yes. While files in the assets folder will be run through Webpack, those in the static folder are genuinely static and will just be moved to your public folder. Static files can, therefore, be accessed as though they were your root directory. Your route would be /images/icon.svg if you wanted to access /static/images/icon.svg from your template.

Yes. Creating a Nuxt.js project from scratch only requires one file and one directory.

Nuxt.js allows you to create different kinds of applications. Static generated pages, universal applications, and single-page applications (SPA) are the three most popular types made with Nuxt.js.

Nuxt.js functions similarly to a server-side framework when a user accesses a website. A server is required to be able to serve the page on each request if server-side rendering is allowed because the requests are rendered on the server every time a user requests a page. Additionally, if client-side rendering is enabled, JavaScript is used to render the page's content in the browser.

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