Why Nuxt is great for development?

First off, let me tell you a little bit about Nuxt itself. Nuxt is a Vue framework. So that means it's based on Vue and in my opinion the best way to use Vue. And it's also a full stack framework meaning that you can have a simple backend and the frontend all in one. This has a few advantages that I will get on later on. For now, let's get started! Oh by the way the website you are reading this blog post on right now is built with Nuxt too!

How I got started with Nuxt?

It was actually quite by accident. I had just started a new internship at a company and they were using nuxt, so that meant that I also had to learn nuxt. But it didn't take long for me to love it and get used to it so much that I kept using it and making all my future websites with it. The reactivity, the devtools, the SSR (server side rendering). I had just fallen in love with it. Therefore, to this day, I use Nuxt for everything I do.

Advantages of Nuxt

Earlier on, I mentioned a bit about how Nuxt being a full stack framework has a few advantages. Well what are them?

• Server Side Rendering
• Speed (Vue is one of the fastest frameworks for server side rendering [1] )
• Ease of building your application

SSR (Server Side Rendering)

So one of the most spoken parts of Nuxt is its awesome useFetch composable. useFetch is basically replacing the fetch function in Nuxt. This allows you to directly call the server of nuxt with useFetch using your path like:

useFetch("/api/products");

This way, Nuxt can even preload the data with the page. And we have now discovered SSR!

How this may be useful?

Let's say you're trying to load a page with some data with it, instead of loading the page up and making the client get the data afterwards with another fetch command, the server just serves the data along with the html sent to the user. This way, you save on a secondary fetch call and it's faster and more efficient for the user.

How to get started with Nuxt?

Getting started with Nuxt is super easy. You can just use the Nuxt CLI and run the following command:

npx create-nuxt-app <project-name>

THAT'S IT! Now you have a nuxt project that you can start working on. But of course, you want to be able to preview your website, so you can run the following command:

npm run dev

or you can use any package manager you like such as yarn or bun

bun run dev

Now, you can preview your website on localhost:3000!

I am trying to keep this blog post relatively short, so I won't go into too much detail about how to use Nuxt. But if you want to learn more, you can visit the Nuxt documentation.

What makes Nuxt so special?

With it's great DevTools and the endless amount of modules you can install, Nuxt is a great framework for developers. By using the DevTools, you can learn how long it takes for your page to load, you can install modules just by clicking a few buttons, and you can even view the variables in REAL TIME! Moreover, you can look at the tailwind colors, use icones and browse them right from your devtools and more.

Here's devtools:

Conclusion

I absolutely love using Nuxt and it's the only way I would use Vue. It's easy to use, has a growing community and it's just fun to work with. So if you are looking for a new Vue framework or just looking for something to build websites with, I would highly recommend Nuxt.js.

Sources

[1]: https://blog.platformatic.dev/ssr-performance-showdown

Any Errors in this post?

If you come across anything I mentioned wrong or if there is something you think that should be added here, feel free to contact me about it! I am open to suggestions and of course I don't want to spread misinformation ':)'