Nuxt/packages/kit/src/loader/nuxt.ts

import { pathToFileURL } from 'node:url'
import { readPackageJSON, resolvePackageJSON } from 'pkg-types'
import type { Nuxt } from '@nuxt/schema'
import { resolve } from 'pathe'
import { importModule, tryImportModule } from '../internal/esm'
import type { LoadNuxtConfigOptions } from './config'

export interface LoadNuxtOptions extends LoadNuxtConfigOptions {
  /** Load nuxt with development mode */
  dev?: boolean

  /** Use lazy initialization of nuxt if set to false */
  ready?: boolean
}

export async function loadNuxt (opts: LoadNuxtOptions): Promise<Nuxt> {
  // Backward compatibility
  opts.cwd = resolve(opts.cwd || (opts as any).rootDir /* backwards compat */ || '.')
  opts.overrides = opts.overrides || (opts as any).config as {} /* backwards compat */ || {}

  // Apply dev as config override
  opts.overrides.dev = !!opts.dev

  const nearestNuxtPkg = await Promise.all(['nuxt-nightly', 'nuxt']
    .map(pkg => resolvePackageJSON(pkg, { url: opts.cwd }).catch(() => null)))
    .then(r => (r.filter(Boolean) as string[]).sort((a, b) => b.length - a.length)[0])
  if (!nearestNuxtPkg) {
    throw new Error(`Cannot find any nuxt version from ${opts.cwd}`)
  }
  const pkg = await readPackageJSON(nearestNuxtPkg)

  const rootDir = pathToFileURL(opts.cwd!).href

  const { loadNuxt } = await importModule((pkg as any)._name || pkg.name, rootDir)
  const nuxt = await loadNuxt(opts)
  return nuxt
}

export async function buildNuxt (nuxt: Nuxt): Promise<any> {
  const rootDir = pathToFileURL(nuxt.options.rootDir).href

  const { build } = await tryImportModule('nuxt-nightly', rootDir) || await importModule('nuxt', rootDir)
  return build(nuxt)
}