Technologies

NUXT.JS

Nuxt.JS is a server-side rendering framework for Vue.js. It is able to generate static HTML websites on the server, and also includes many ready-made solutions for building web applications with good SEO and UX. It's simple and easy to create interactive web applications that will be perfectly indexed by search engines.


NuxtJS is currently used by Ozon, Todoist, GitLab, Nespresso, Ubisoft, and other companies, and most importantly, you can use it for free - it's an open source framework in the public domain.

What is Nuxt.JS and Vue.js and when is it beneficial to use them

Vue.js is a JavaScript framework focused on creating interfaces. It is the youngest development environment that has the best of its closest competitors Angular and React. The Vue.JS core itself does not yet have the inherent features of projects with a history of a large number of built-in libraries for all occasions, but it has easy integration that allows you to add any JavaScript library or add-ons such as Nuxt.JS.

Nuxt.JS is a framework for Vue.js. It consists of modules that describe various functions, from which you can build a web application relatively easily and quickly. Developers won't need to write solutions for your tasks from scratch, and they will have a framework and design standard that will speed up and facilitate teamwork on the project. Server-side rendering, the main feature of the framework, also makes development several times easier compared to the need to manually configure it for each page or write plugins.

Three reasons to use Nuxt.JS in your project
Because it has server-side rendering 1 / 3

The technology, in which the entire HTML code of a page is generated on the server, allows web applications to load faster, regardless of the power of the device. This is especially beneficial for pages with static information, but if there are a lot of interactive elements on the page, such as videos, discussions below them, animations, it may take some time to render everything before it appears on the screen. In such cases, it is beneficial to use mixed rendering to redirect some of the load to the client device, but server-side rendering is still useful. SSR improves the SEO performance of your web application and its UX - the ratings from search robots and real users.

Because it consists of optimized modules 2 / 3

Nuxt has a powerful modular architecture. Developers will have ready-made solutions for connecting Google Analytics, generating sitemaps, modules for pwa, axios, firebase, and much more out of the box. At the same time, all of this is optimized for SEO and productive, and most importantly, it can be fine-tuned without losing speed.

Because it is easy and pleasant to work with 3 / 3

Nuxt.js is a developer-friendly framework. It's simple and straightforward, open source, and actively developing. Although its main purpose is to solve the problem with server-side rendering, it has many more interesting and useful features that fully comply with Vue rules.

Conclusion

NuxtJS was created to simplify the life of developers and improve the final software product for users and search robots. Everything it can do can be written in bare-bones Vue, but it will take many times longer. NuxtJS is an out-of-the-box solution that aims to improve the SEO and UX of your application. It is often used as a layer between front- and back-end frameworks, simply to generate a static HTML website on the server and make it visible, and most importantly, interesting, to search engines.