From 29ebccaa6551a82f2523e7b526c7f1057c795517 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?S=C3=A9bastien=20Chopin?= <seb@nuxtjs.com>
Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 13:55:39 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix(generator): avoid error if nuxt/config.js does not exists
 in buildDir  (#7332)

---
 packages/generator/src/generator.js | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/generator/src/generator.js b/packages/generator/src/generator.js
index b10a06344e..1d78511fd2 100644
--- a/packages/generator/src/generator.js
+++ b/packages/generator/src/generator.js
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ export default class Generator {
         )
       }
       const config = this.getBuildConfig()
-      if (config.target !== TARGETS.static) {
+      if (!config || config.target !== TARGETS.static) {
         throw new Error(
           `In order to use \`nuxt export\`, you need to run \`nuxt build --target static\``
         )
@@ -128,7 +128,11 @@ export default class Generator {
   }
 
   getBuildConfig () {
-    return require(path.join(this.options.buildDir, 'nuxt/config.json'))
+    try {
+      return require(path.join(this.options.buildDir, 'nuxt/config.json'))
+    } catch (err) {
+      return null
+    }
   }
 
   getAppRoutes () {