How to Install and Creating First Nuxt.js App ?

What is NuxtJS?

NuxtJS is a framework of VueJS for creating web apps. It makes development more fast, easy, and organized. NuxtJS is similar to Next.js, which is a framework of React.js.

The main features of NuxtJS are:

• Great folder structure: Nuxt App comes with a great folder structure that makes development fast and organized.
• Server-Side Rendering (SSR): Easily render react components on the server before sending HTML to the client.
• Statical Rendering: Auto generates routes on file or folder creation.
• Code Splitting: Create a static version of the web app with a special Webpack configuration.

Prerequisites: Following are some pre-requisites to create a Nuxt app.

• Node (version 10.13 or above) installed.
• Basic knowledge of NPM (Node Package Manager).

Steps to create and run the nuxt app:

Step 1: Now create a folder for your project on the desktop and navigate to the folder through your terminal.

Step 2: Run the following command in the terminal. The my-app is the name of our app, you can give any name of your choice.

npx create-nuxt-app my-app

Step 3: After that, you have to answer some questions in terminal answer those according to your choice.

Step 4: Now navigate to your app using the following command:

cd my-app

Folder structure: It will look like this.

Step 5: Run your app using the following command.

npm run dev

Output: Now open your browser and go to http://localhost:3000/, you will see the following output:

Reference: https://nuxtjs.org/docs/2.x/get-started/installation