Setting up a new nuxt project requires only on command a couple of minutes, nuxt handles all the routine, so you can just start coding, without any configuration.

Even in a small Vue application, you control the code structure, at best, in several files. The default Nuxt.js structure gives you a great start for organizing your service in a scalable, but at the same time simple and logical form.

One of the main advantages is that the framework facilitates the creation of universal applications. The latter is written in JavaScript, and the scripts are used both on the client-side and on the server-side, that’s what we mean saying universal applications.

Many modern JavaScript frameworks, such as Vue, are aimed at creating single-page (SPA) sites. SPA has many advantages compared to a traditional website. For example, you can create a very high-speed user interface that is quickly updated.

But the SPA also has its drawbacks — for example, long loading times. Google struggles with them because initially there is no content on the page to crawl for SEO purposes. All content is generated using actual javascript.

A universal application implies a SPA, but instead of a blank index.html page, you preload your creation onto a web server. Also, send the rendered HTML as a response to the browser request for each route. This helps speed up the load and improve SEO, making it easier for Google to crawl the page.

Creating generic services can be tedious since you need to do a lot of configuration for both the server-side and the client-side applications. This is a problem Nuxt seeks to solve for Vue. The framework makes it easy to exchange code between a client and a server so that you can focus on the logic of your application.

If your webpage doesn’t depend on any dynamic data, for example, a landing page, then static page generation is what you need. Nuxt will generate a static HTML file for each of your routes and place it in its file.

The advantages of this approach are very similar to the advantages of universal applications. There is a markup necessary to speed up the page load, as well as help search engines and social network crawlers to crawl the site. The difference is that you no longer need a server. Everything is generated during the development phase.

This is very powerful because you get the benefits of universal rendering without the need for a server. You can simply place your project on GitHub or Amazon S3.