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> Vue.js Meta Framework to create complex, fast & universal web application *quickly*.

## Links

- 📘 Documentation: [https://nuxtjs.org](https://nuxtjs.org)
- 🎬 Video: [1 minute demo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmf-p-pTi40)
- 🐦 Twitter: [@nuxt_js](https://twitter.com/nuxt_js)
- 👥 [Nuxt.js Community](https://github.com/nuxt-community)
- 📦 [Nuxt.js Modules](https://github.com/nuxt-community/modules)
- 👉 [Play with Nuxt.js online](https://glitch.com/edit/#!/nuxt-hello-world)

## Features

- Automatic transpilation and bundling (with webpack and babel)
- Hot code reloading
- Server-side rendering OR Single Page App OR Static Generated, you choose :fire:
- Static file serving. `./static/` is mapped to `/`
- Configurable with a `nuxt.config.js` file
- Custom layouts with the `layouts/` directory
- Middleware
- Code splitting for every `pages/`

Learn more at [nuxtjs.org](https://nuxtjs.org).

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## Getting started

```
$ npm install nuxt --save
```

Add a script to your package.json like this:

```json
{
  "scripts": {
    "start": "nuxt"
  }
}
```

After that, the file-system is the main API. Every .vue file becomes a route that gets automatically processed and rendered.

Populate `./pages/index.vue` inside your project:

```html
<template>
  <h1>Hello {{ name }}!</h1>
</template>

<script>
export default {
  data: () => {
    return { name: 'world' }
  }
}
</script>
```

And then run:
```bash
npm start
```

Go to [http://localhost:3000](http://localhost:3000)

## Templates

:point_right: We recommend to start directly with our cli [create-nuxt-app](https://github.com/nuxt-community/create-nuxt-app) for the lastest updates.

Or you can start by using one of our starter templates:
- [starter](https://github.com/nuxt-community/starter-template): Basic Nuxt.js project template
- [express](https://github.com/nuxt-community/express-template): Nuxt.js + Express
- [koa](https://github.com/nuxt-community/koa-template): Nuxt.js + Koa
- [adonuxt](https://github.com/nuxt-community/adonuxt-template): Nuxt.js + AdonisJS
- [micro](https://github.com/nuxt-community/micro-template): Nuxt.js + Micro
- [nuxtent](https://github.com/nuxt-community/nuxtent-template): Nuxt.js + Nuxtent module for content heavy sites

## Using nuxt.js programmatically

```js
const { Nuxt, Builder } = require('nuxt')

// Import and set nuxt.js options
let config = require('./nuxt.config.js')
config.dev = !(process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production')

let nuxt = new Nuxt(config)

// Start build process (only in development)
if (config.dev) {
  new Builder(nuxt).build()
}

// You can use nuxt.render(req, res) or nuxt.renderRoute(route, context)
```

Learn more: https://nuxtjs.org/api/nuxt

## Using nuxt.js as a middleware

You might want to use your own server with you configurations, your API and everything awesome your created with. That's why you can use nuxt.js as a middleware. It's recommended to use it at the end of your middleware since it will handle the rendering of your web application and won't call next().

```js
app.use(nuxt.render)
```

Learn more: https://nuxtjs.org/api/nuxt-render

## Render a specific route

This is mostly used for `nuxt generate` and test purposes but you might find another utility!

```js
nuxt.renderRoute('/about', context)
.then(function ({ html, error }) {
  // You can check error to know if your app displayed the error page for this route
  // Useful to set the correct status code if an error appended:
  if (error) {
    return res.status(error.statusCode || 500).send(html)
  }
  res.send(html)
})
.catch(function (error) {
  // And error appended while rendering the route
})
```

Learn more: https://nuxtjs.org/api/nuxt-render-route

## Examples

Please take a look at https://nuxtjs.org/examples

## Production deployment

To deploy, instead of running nuxt, you probably want to build ahead of time. Therefore, building and starting are separate commands:

```bash
nuxt build
nuxt start
```

For example, to deploy with [`now`](https://zeit.co/now) a `package.json` like follows is recommended:
```json
{
  "name": "my-app",
  "dependencies": {
    "nuxt": "latest"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "dev": "nuxt",
    "build": "nuxt build",
    "start": "nuxt start"
  }
}
```
Then run `now` and enjoy!

Note: we recommend putting `.nuxt` in `.npmignore` or `.gitignore`.

## Roadmap

https://trello.com/b/lgy93IOl/nuxtjs-10

## Contributing
Please see our [CONTRIBUTING.md](./CONTRIBUTING.md)