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Chapter 7: Nuxt.js

While Vue is frequently referred to as a framework, out of the box it doesn’t come with all the functionality you might need to build more sophisticated web applications, such as routing and state management.

Nuxt.js (hereafter referred to as Nuxt) is a non-official framework that brings together Vue, Vue Router, and Vuex, and was inspired by the similar, React-based framework Next.js. It takes a convention-over-configuration approach to remove a lot of the boilerplate from the process of developing Vue applications.

With some frameworks, this approach can become restrictive when you want to venture beyond the use cases the developers had in mind. However, Nuxt has carefully chosen sensible defaults that reduce the time it ...