I am hardcoding meta og tags into public/index.html as I'm making a single page app. I can't find a way to reference the image from the assets though.
Is it possible to achieve this ? Otherwise I'll just upload it to strapi and have the backend server serve the file.
The next step is to use Nuxt.js to have the website as static files so I'm not really eager to use back-end server to serve the image.
ok so I'm starting to use Nuxt in spa mode and I can see that dynamic pages work differently so I was searching and I found that I can use the generate property
to generate the dynamic pages when I start the production, but is it ok to use it if my API has too many users?? or is there a better way to create the dynamic pages??
This depends on whether or not your production site will be static or server-side rendered.
nuxt generate is used for target: static (bundles the site as plain, SEO-friendly html pages)
nuxt build is used for target: server with either ssr: set to true or false. This bundles the site as either a server side rendered site or a single page application (SPA) with exclusively client-side navigation.
Good summary here: https://kontent.ai/blog/demystify-nuxt-target-mode-and-ssr-properties
I don't see any big problems in scaling a Nuxt application. But obviously involving server rendering will put some more strain on your server than a SPA or static jamstack-site with plain, prebuilt html pages.
If you don't need the SEO, then I would go for the SPA option with ssr: false. Super fast and requires minimal server resources on your end after the site has loaded on the client machine.
I've created a blog with Nuxt that has dynamic routes for each of my articles (articles/_slug.vue). Inside the _slug.vue file I grab markup content from a strapi CMS using asyncData.
aricles/_slug.vue
After running nuxt generate followed by nuxt start and navigating to an article page in my browser, when I open the page source I find that there are numerous Js files being imported /_nuxt/{randomNumbers}.js and a single div with an id __nuxt , most likely resembling an SPA format.
page source of an article
This does not occur with my index.vue page as when I view the page source for index.vue all my content is in the HTML.
Its important that the google crawler is able to index the content on my article pages, so the page source not containing the blog content is not ideal.
What I don't understand is that when I open the dist folder generated by nuxt I find all my articles in subfolders containing HTML files hard coded with my blog content. So I am wondering why isn't nuxt serving these HTML files , and is there a way to do so ?
distFolder
As far as I know all pages and components go in one component called Nuxt and I think the "__nuxt" element is that. By the way using asyncData and 'nuxt generate' won't make your app server-side dynamic because 'nuxt generate' generates a static site and while using 'nuxt generate' all asyncData hooks will be called once. For the hard coded blog posts I think you should disable Nuxt Crawler in your nuxt.config.js.
Nuxt Docs: The Generate Property #Crawler
export default {
generate: {
crawler: false
}
}
It seems as though after hosting the project on Vercel the static behavior works accordingly. When testing the website locally (nuxt start) the content isn't pre loaded into the page source it continues to act as a SPA on dynamic routes. However after deploying to Vercel the blog content can be found in page source.
I'm creating a simple demo app with NuxtJs. The homepage shows static content that is not changed very often. There is another route for showing a list of users: /users. And one for showing user's details: /user/id.
Now my question is what's the difference between nuxt generate and nuxt build? which one should I use?
I think nuxt generate page will not render dynamic routes like users and user/id, Am I right? If I am right, then generate command will generate a pre-rendered HTML for homepage only. So using generate is always better than using build right ?
In universal mode, nuxt generate is for static site generation. nuxt build is for SSR site.
In 2.13.0, Nuxt introduced a target: static feature, make sure to
check it.
A static site has the best performance, and it is easy to deploy on nginx or other services, like Netlify.
By default, nuxt generate only render your static home page and /users page, not the dynamic /user/:id route.
But you can config nuxt to help you generate the dynamic routes.
If you have a fixed set of users, you can use functions to generate the routes.
If the users data is constantly in change, you can config nuxt to fallback to SPA on the dynamic routes. But you can't get any benefit for SEO on the dynamic routes.
For SPA fallback, in the generate config, define a custom page for SPA fallback:
export default {
generate: {
fallback: "custom_sap_fallbackpage.html"
}
}
Config the fallback page for unknow route in your deployment, for example, in Nginx:
location / {
try_files $uri /custom_sap_fallbackpage.html;
}
nuxt build will build you a SSR site. The html is rendered on the server and sent to the client. It add some work load on the server and maybe is not that easy to deploy, but the main gain is the SEO. And to some users with low end devices or slow internet connection, maybe your site will perform better than depolying in SPA mode.
Basically, you need to consider:
The website's content is static or constantly changing?
nuxt generate for static. nuxt generate or nuxt build or spa mode for sites with dynamic routes.
Do you need SEO?
SPA wouldn't get any SEO.
How you deploy the site?
For static hosting service, only nuxt generate or spa mode will work.
your website is heavy with js code, and you want best performance for user with slow internet and slow devices. Or SEO is important for your site with a lot of dynamic content.
SSR is for you, use nuxt build.
There are three different deployment and generation options in Nuxt.
Universal Mode
In this mode you build your project and then you ship it to a node.js server, the first view is always rendered dynamically on the server and then turns into SPA, and works in the client. That's great for SEO, and for consuming API's but you cannot upload it to any hosting, for example on a shared VPS.
So - Node.js Host is required here.
SPA
Well basically how Vue.js works by default, virtually no SEO at all, you can upload it on a shared VPS hosting, because it's just an index.html and build.js file and it's working entirely on the client-side (in the browser).
We can go for a static hosting here.
Static App
This is where Nuxt.js shines, because this mode will generate an index.html file and the corresponding js/css assets for each route you have in the dist folder, and you can then just take those numerous files, and upload them to any hosting, you don't need a server here, because your first views are already pre-rendered, unlike Universal where the node server should pre-render the first view. So you get SSR here, and your main concert as far as I understand is if you get SPA too, and that's the best part as in Universal mode, after the first request the app continues in SPA mode, how great is that eh?
Anyways there are some things you should take into consideration, that if you want to generate index.html for dynamic content you need to make something that's kinda a mood killer. You need to add this to nuxt-config.js
generate: {
routes: () => {
return [
'/posts/1'
]
}
}
You can also use axios to make http request and return array here. Or even export default array from a file and include it here, where you combine all your dynamic routes. It's a one time job, but if you add new crud in your backend, that would add up 1 more request to run on executing nuxt generate that should be described in nuxt-config.
So that's the reason I would prefer to pay more for a server, but to host a Universal App, instead static generated, because that's the part that doesn't make it really great for consuming API's in my personal opinion, but it is a great future anyways.
when you website update data often you don't need to use build by using npm generate your website static, load fast and SEO friendly for search engine and more secure and if your project has data NuxtJS download all data from database and change data to .json file statically.
if your website load data from the database you must use npm build to load data dynamically from database. use mode "spa" for a single page without client-side rendering or "universal" in nuxt.config.js for client-side rendering.
for dynamic routing use npm build for change route parameters from the database.
I would really appreciate some input in how to solve a masking / subdirectory issue with a SSR. It's also my first freelance gig as a front end developer.
I've built a Vue.js-app with dynamic routes, that is loaded in a Wordpress-page subdirectory.
www.wordpresspage.com/vue-app
Since I preferably want static pages (for SEO and meta tags) I'd like to host it on for example Netlify and generate static pages through ex. Nuxt.js.
Is there a way for me to mask the url so that it also routes the subdirectories?
So that my-page.netlify.com/sub-page can be accessed on www.wordpresspage.com/vue-app/sub-page
The alternative for me is at the moment to run the Vue app as SPA and forget about SEO and Open Graph etc.
OR get node.js running on the Wordpress site and do SSR, but honestly that sounds doesn't sound like it's worth the trouble.
Thanks for your input!
John