diff --git a/lib/builder/builder.js b/lib/builder/builder.js
index 9d0de14900..8f9e859e95 100644
--- a/lib/builder/builder.js
+++ b/lib/builder/builder.js
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ export default class Builder extends Tapable {
     // Helper to resolve build paths
     this.relativeToBuild = (...args) => relativeTo(this.options.buildDir, ...args)
 
+    // Call builder plugin on parent nuxt to notify all modules of builder existence
+    this.nuxt.applyPluginsAsync('builder', this).catch(this.nuxt.errorHandler)
+
     this._buildStatus = STATUS.INITIAL
   }
 
@@ -66,6 +69,8 @@ export default class Builder extends Tapable {
     // Wait for nuxt ready
     await this.nuxt.ready()
 
+    await this.applyPluginsAsync('build', this)
+
     // Check if pages dir exists and warn if not
     this._nuxtPages = typeof this.options.build.createRoutes !== 'function'
     if (this._nuxtPages) {
@@ -95,6 +100,8 @@ export default class Builder extends Tapable {
     // Start webpack build
     await this.webpackBuild()
 
+    await this.applyPluginsAsync('built', this)
+
     // Flag to set that building is done
     this._buildStatus = STATUS.BUILD_DONE
 
@@ -173,6 +180,9 @@ export default class Builder extends Tapable {
     } else {
       templateVars.router.routes = this.options.build.createRoutes(this.options.srcDir)
     }
+
+    await this.applyPluginsAsync('extendRoutes', {routes: templateVars.router.routes, templateVars, r})
+
     // router.extendRoutes method
     if (typeof this.options.router.extendRoutes === 'function') {
       // let the user extend the routes
@@ -216,6 +226,8 @@ export default class Builder extends Tapable {
       }, t)
     }))
 
+    await this.applyPluginsAsync('generate', { builder: this, templatesFiles, templateVars })
+
     // Interpret and move template files to .nuxt/
     await Promise.all(templatesFiles.map(async ({ src, dst, options, custom }) => {
       // Add template to watchers
@@ -246,9 +258,11 @@ export default class Builder extends Tapable {
       const dateFS = Date.now() / 1000 - 1000
       return utimes(path, dateFS, dateFS)
     }))
+
+    await this.applyPluginsAsync('generated', this)
   }
 
-  webpackBuild () {
+  async webpackBuild () {
     debug('Building files...')
     let compilersOptions = []
 
@@ -291,7 +305,7 @@ export default class Builder extends Tapable {
     })
 
     // Run after each compile
-    this.compiler.plugin('done', stats => {
+    this.compiler.plugin('done', async stats => {
       // Don't reload failed builds
       /* istanbul ignore if */
       if (stats.hasErrors() || stats.hasWarnings()) {
@@ -301,6 +315,8 @@ export default class Builder extends Tapable {
       if (this.nuxt.renderer) {
         this.nuxt.renderer.loadResources(sharedFS || fs)
       }
+
+      await this.applyPluginsAsync('compiled', { builder: this, stats })
     })
 
     // Add dev Stuff
@@ -308,6 +324,8 @@ export default class Builder extends Tapable {
       this.webpackDev()
     }
 
+    await this.applyPluginsAsync('compile', { builder: this, compiler: this.compiler })
+
     // Start Builds
     return parallel(this.compiler.compilers, compiler => new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
       if (this.options.dev) {
diff --git a/lib/builder/generator.js b/lib/builder/generator.js
index ee5ae785a7..5eb4bf0c02 100644
--- a/lib/builder/generator.js
+++ b/lib/builder/generator.js
@@ -15,6 +15,15 @@ export default class Generator extends Tapable {
     this.nuxt = nuxt
     this.options = nuxt.options
     this.builder = builder
+
+    // Set variables
+    this.generateRoutes = resolve(this.options.srcDir, 'static')
+    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 generator plugin on parent nuxt to notify all modules of generator existence
+    this.nuxt.applyPluginsAsync('generator', this).catch(this.nuxt.errorHandler)
   }
 
   async generate (doBuild = true) {
@@ -22,12 +31,6 @@ export default class Generator extends Tapable {
     let errors = []
     let generateRoutes = []
 
-    // Set variables
-    let srcStaticPath = resolve(this.options.srcDir, 'static')
-    let srcBuiltPath = resolve(this.options.buildDir, 'dist')
-    let distPath = resolve(this.options.rootDir, this.options.generate.dir)
-    let distNuxtPath = join(distPath, (isUrl(this.options.build.publicPath) ? '' : this.options.build.publicPath))
-
     // Wait for nuxt be ready
     await this.nuxt.ready()
 
@@ -36,16 +39,18 @@ export default class Generator extends Tapable {
       await this.builder.build()
     }
 
+    await this.applyPluginsAsync('before-generate', this)
+
     // Clean destination folder
-    await remove(distPath)
+    await remove(this.distPath)
     debug('Destination folder cleaned')
 
     // Copy static and built files
     /* istanbul ignore if */
-    if (fs.existsSync(srcStaticPath)) {
-      await copy(srcStaticPath, distPath)
+    if (fs.existsSync(this.generateRoutes)) {
+      await copy(this.generateRoutes, this.distPath)
     }
-    await copy(srcBuiltPath, distNuxtPath)
+    await copy(this.srcBuiltPath, this.distNuxtPath)
     debug('Static & build files copied')
 
     // Resolve config.generate.routes promises before generating the routes
@@ -53,6 +58,7 @@ export default class Generator extends Tapable {
       try {
         console.log('Generating routes') // eslint-disable-line no-console
         generateRoutes = await promisifyRoute(this.options.generate.routes || [])
+        await this.applyPluginsAsync('generateRoutes', {generator: this, generateRoutes})
       } catch (e) {
         console.error('Could not resolve routes') // eslint-disable-line no-console
         console.error(e) // eslint-disable-line no-console
@@ -85,6 +91,8 @@ export default class Generator extends Tapable {
     let routes = (this.options.router.mode === 'hash') ? ['/'] : flatRoutes(this.options.router.routes)
     routes = decorateWithPayloads(routes)
 
+    await this.applyPluginsAsync('generate', {generator: this, routes})
+
     while (routes.length) {
       let n = 0
       await Promise.all(routes.splice(0, 500).map(async ({ route, payload }) => {
@@ -111,7 +119,7 @@ export default class Generator extends Tapable {
         let path = join(route, sep, 'index.html') // /about -> /about/index.html
         path = (path === '/404/index.html') ? '/404.html' : path // /404 -> /404.html
         debug('Generate file: ' + path)
-        path = join(distPath, path)
+        path = join(this.distPath, path)
         // Make sure the sub folders are created
         await mkdirp(dirname(path))
         await writeFile(path, html, 'utf8')
@@ -120,7 +128,7 @@ export default class Generator extends Tapable {
 
     // Add .nojekyll file to let Github Pages add the _nuxt/ folder
     // https://help.github.com/articles/files-that-start-with-an-underscore-are-missing/
-    const nojekyllPath = resolve(distPath, '.nojekyll')
+    const nojekyllPath = resolve(this.distPath, '.nojekyll')
     writeFile(nojekyllPath, '')
     const duration = Math.round((Date.now() - s) / 100) / 10
     debug(`HTML Files generated in ${duration}s`)
@@ -137,6 +145,8 @@ export default class Generator extends Tapable {
       console.error('==== Error report ==== \n' + report.join('\n\n')) // eslint-disable-line no-console
     }
 
+    await this.applyPluginsAsync('generated', this)
+
     return { duration, errors }
   }
 }
diff --git a/lib/core/module.js b/lib/core/module.js
index 4cb9a5bcb5..8876fab3b0 100755
--- a/lib/core/module.js
+++ b/lib/core/module.js
@@ -15,8 +15,9 @@ export default class ModuleContainer extends Tapable {
     this.options = nuxt.options
     this.requiredModules = []
 
-    this.nuxt.plugin('beforeInit', () => {
-      return sequence(this.options.modules, this.addModule.bind(this))
+    this.nuxt.plugin('beforeInit', async () => {
+      await sequence(this.options.modules, this.addModule.bind(this))
+      await this.applyPluginsAsync('ready', this)
     })
   }
 
@@ -81,11 +82,14 @@ export default class ModuleContainer extends Tapable {
     return this.addModule(moduleOpts, true)
   }
 
-  addModule (moduleOpts, requireOnce) {
+  async addModule (moduleOpts, requireOnce) {
     /* istanbul ignore if */
     if (!moduleOpts) {
       return
     }
+
+    await this.applyPluginsAsync('add', {moduleOpts, requireOnce})
+
     // Allow using babel style array options
     if (Array.isArray(moduleOpts)) {
       moduleOpts = {
@@ -93,12 +97,13 @@ export default class ModuleContainer extends Tapable {
         options: moduleOpts[1]
       }
     }
+
     // Allows passing runtime options to each module
     const options = moduleOpts.options || (typeof moduleOpts === 'object' ? moduleOpts : {})
     const originalSrc = moduleOpts.src || moduleOpts
+
     // Resolve module
     let module = originalSrc
-
     if (typeof module === 'string') {
       module = require(this.nuxt.resolvePath(module))
     }
@@ -108,6 +113,7 @@ export default class ModuleContainer extends Tapable {
     if (typeof module !== 'function') {
       throw new Error(`[nuxt] Module ${JSON.stringify(originalSrc)} should export a function`)
     }
+
     // Module meta
     if (!module.meta) {
       module.meta = {}
@@ -121,6 +127,7 @@ export default class ModuleContainer extends Tapable {
         this.requiredModules.push(module.meta.name)
       }
     }
+
     // Call module with `this` context and pass options
     return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
       const result = module.call(this, options, err => {
diff --git a/lib/core/nuxt.js b/lib/core/nuxt.js
index 3b138a5cdd..1c5dfbd95b 100644
--- a/lib/core/nuxt.js
+++ b/lib/core/nuxt.js
@@ -79,18 +79,23 @@ 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)
+
     // Silent
     if (this.options.errorHandler === false) {
       return
     }
+
     // Custom errorHandler
     if (typeof this.options.errorHandler === 'function') {
       return this.options.errorHandler.apply(this, arguments)
     }
+
     // Default handler
     // eslint-disable-next-line no-console
-    console.error.apply(this, arguments)
-    process.exit(1)
+    console.error(...arguments)
   }
 
   resolvePath (path) {
diff --git a/lib/core/renderer.js b/lib/core/renderer.js
index c3bbe7205f..36338fa055 100644
--- a/lib/core/renderer.js
+++ b/lib/core/renderer.js
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ export default class Renderer extends Tapable {
     }
 
     // Setup all middleWare
-    this.setupMiddleware()
+    await this.setupMiddleware()
 
     // Load error template
     const errorTemplatePath = resolve(this.options.buildDir, 'views/error.html')
@@ -165,9 +165,9 @@ export default class Renderer extends Tapable {
     }
   }
 
-  setupMiddleware () {
+  async setupMiddleware () {
     // Apply setupMiddleware from modules first
-    this.applyPlugins('setupMiddleware', this.app)
+    await this.applyPluginsAsync('setupMiddleware', this.app)
 
     // Gzip middleware for production
     if (!this.options.dev && this.options.render.gzip) {