Well done! You have made it through the first chapter of your journey into Nuxt. In this chapter, you learned what makes up the Nuxt framework; that is, Vue (the origin of Nuxt), webpack, and Babel. You learned about the various features Nuxt provides, such as the ability for you to write Vue single-file components (.vue files), ES2015+ JavaScript (ES6), CSS with a preprocessor (Sass, Less, Stylus). You are also able to extend your app with modules and plugins, to add transitions between the routes of your app, to manage the <head> element and the meta content of each route or page in your app. Apart from this you also covered tons of great features that are imported from webpack and Babel, such as bundling, minifying, and splitting code. You also learned that you can access tons of plugins and modules from the Nuxt community for your Nuxt projects.
Apart from these great features, you learned about the pros and cons of each type of available application: traditional server-side rendered apps, traditional single-page apps (SPAs), universal server-side rendered apps (SSRs), and static-generated apps. You also learned that Nuxt apps actually fall in line with the categories of universal SSR apps and static-generated apps. And then, you learned that Nuxt also falls in line with single-page apps, but not the same as traditional SPAs. Lastly, you looked into using Nuxt for universal SSR apps, static-generated apps, and single-page apps, all of which you'll learn more about throughout this book.
In the next chapter, you will learn how to install Nuxt and create a simple Nuxt app and understand the default directory structure that comes with the Nuxt scaffolding tool. You will also learn how to customize your Nuxt app and understand the assets that are served in Nuxt. So, stay tuned!
