Getting Started with Nuxt

This chapter will guide you through the process of installing a Nuxt project from scratch or with the Nuxt scaffolding tool. Installing Nuxt is the first thing you should do when developing Nuxt apps. We'll use the Nuxt scaffolding tool for all of our example apps throughout this book as it generates essential project folders and files (which we will explore in this chapter) for us automatically; but of course, you can do it from scratch for small app development. We will go through the directory structure and the use and purpose of each directory. If you are installing your Nuxt project from scratch, you'll still need to know the directory structure and the official directories that Nuxt will read automatically from your project. You'll also learn how to configure Nuxt to suit the needs of your app specifically, even though Nuxt is already...