Nuxt
Nuxt is a web framework making Vue.js-based development simple and powerful.
In this guide, you will create a new Nuxt application and deploy it using Cloudflare Pages.
Create a new project using the create-cloudflare
CLI (C3)
The create-cloudflare
CLI (C3) will configure your Nuxt site for Cloudflare Pages. Run the following command in your terminal to create a new Nuxt site:
$ npm create cloudflare@latest my-nuxt-app -- --framework=nuxt
C3 will ask you a series of setup questions and create a new project with nuxi
(the official Nuxt CLI). C3 will also install the necessary adapters along with the Wrangler CLI.
After creating your project, C3 will generate a new my-nuxt-app
directory using the default Nuxt template, updated to be fully compatible with Cloudflare Pages.
When creating your new project, C3 will give you the option of deploying an initial version of your application via Direct Upload. You can redeploy your application at any time by running following command inside your project directory:
$ npm run deploy
Configure and deploy a project without C3
To deploy a Nuxt project without C3, follow the Nuxt Get Started guide. After you have set up your Nuxt project, choose either the Git integration guide or Direct Upload guide to deploy your Nuxt project on Cloudflare Pages.
Git integration
In addition to Direct Upload deployments, you can deploy projects via Git integration. Git integration allows you to connect a GitHub or GitLab repository to your Pages application and have your Pages application automatically built and deployed after each new commit is pushed to it.
Setup requires a basic understanding of Git. If you are new to Git, refer to GitHub’s summarized Git handbook on how to set up Git on your local machine.
Create a GitHub repository
Create a new GitHub repository by visiting repo.new. After creating a new repository, go to your newly created project directory to prepare and push your local application to GitHub by running the following commands in your terminal:# Skip the following three commands if you have built your application
# using C3 or already committed your changes
$ git init
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "Initial commit"
$ git branch -M main
$ git remote add origin https://github.com/<YOUR_GH_USERNAME>/<REPOSITORY_NAME>
$ git push -u origin main
Create a Pages project
- Log in to the Cloudflare dashboard and select your account.
- Go to Workers & Pages > Create application > Pages > Connect to Git and create a new Pages project.
You will be asked to authorize access to your GitHub account if you have not already done so. Cloudflare needs this so that it can monitor and deploy your projects from the source. You may narrow access to specific repositories if you prefer; however, you will have to manually update this list within your GitHub settings when you want to add more repositories to Cloudflare Pages.
- Select the new GitHub repository that you created and, in the Set up builds and deployments section, provide the following information:
Configuration option | Value |
---|---|
Production branch | main |
Build command | npm run build |
Build directory | dist |
Optionally, you can customize the Project name field. It defaults to the GitHub repository’s name, but it does not need to match. The Project name value is assigned as your *.pages.dev
subdomain.
- After completing configuration, select the Save and Deploy.
Review your first deploy pipeline in progress. Pages installs all dependencies and builds the project as specified. Cloudflare Pages will automatically rebuild your project and deploy it on every new pushed commit.
Additionally, you will have access to preview deployments, which repeat the build-and-deploy process for pull requests. With these, you can preview changes to your project with a real URL before deploying your changes to production.
Use bindings in your Nuxt application
A binding allows your application to interact with Cloudflare developer products, such as KV, Durable Objects, R2, and D1.
If you intend to use bindings in your project, you must first set up your bindings for local and remote development.
Set up bindings for local development
Projects created via C3 come with nitro-cloudflare-dev
, a nitro
module that simplifies the process of working with bindings during development:
nuxt.config.tsexport default defineNuxtConfig({ modules: ["nitro-cloudflare-dev"],
});
This module is powered by the getPlatformProxy
helper function. getPlatformProxy
will automatically detect any bindings defined in your project’s wrangler.toml
file and emulate those bindings in local development. Review Wrangler configuration information on bindings for more information on how to configure bindings in wrangler.toml
.
Set up bindings for a deployed application
In order to access bindings in a deployed application, you will need to configure your bindings in the Cloudflare dashboard.
Add bindings to TypeScript projects
To get proper type support, you need to create a new env.d.ts
file in the root of your project and declare a binding.
The following is an example of adding a KVNamespace
binding:
env.d.tsimport { CfProperties, Request, ExecutionContext, KVNamespace } from '@cloudflare/workers-types';
declare module 'h3' { interface H3EventContext { cf: CfProperties, cloudflare: { request: Request, env: { MY_KV: KVNamespace, } context: ExecutionContext, }; }
}
Access bindings in your Nuxt application
In Nuxt, add server-side code via Server Routes and Middleware. The defineEventHandler()
method is used to define your API endpoints in which you can access Cloudflare’s context via the provided context
field. The context
field allows you to access any bindings set for your application.
The following code block shows an example of accessing a KV namespace in Nuxt.
server/api/hello.jsexport default defineEventHandler(({ context }) => { const MY_KV = context.cloudflare.env.MY_KV;
return { // ... };
});
server/api/hello.tsexport default defineEventHandler(({ context }) => { const MY_KV = context.cloudflare.env.MY_KV;
return { // ... };
});
Learn more
By completing this guide, you have successfully deployed your Nuxt site to Cloudflare Pages. To get started with other frameworks, refer to the list of Framework guides.