I’ve been building websites for years, and I keep coming back to a simple truth: the best tools are the ones that get out of your way. They let you focus on what matters—creating a great experience for your users. Recently, I found myself frustrated. I was building a content-heavy site, and every small text change meant a code deployment. There had to be a better way. That’s when I decided to combine two powerful tools: Nuxt.js for the frontend and Strapi for the backend. The result wasn’t just a solution; it was a revelation in how to build modern, content-driven applications. Let me show you what I learned.
Think of your website as a store. Nuxt.js is your beautiful, fast, and engaging storefront. It’s what your customers see and interact with. Strapi is your organized, efficient back office. It’s where you manage your inventory—your articles, images, product details—without ever touching the shop floor. This separation is powerful. Your content team can update the blog, add new team members, or change product descriptions in Strapi’s clean admin panel. Meanwhile, your development team can improve the site’s performance, add new features, or redesign pages in Nuxt, all without stepping on each other’s toes.
Why does this matter? Because speed and flexibility are no longer optional. Have you ever visited a website that felt slow to load? You probably left. Nuxt, especially with its static site generation, creates pages ahead of time. It fetches all the content from Strapi at build time and produces plain HTML files. When a user visits, the page appears instantly. No waiting for a server to fetch data and render the page. It’s already done.
Setting this up is straightforward. First, you need a Strapi project running. Once you’ve created your content types—say, for a ‘Blog Post’—you can start adding entries. Strapi gives you a REST API by default. To fetch all blog posts, the endpoint might be https://your-strapi-app.com/api/blog-posts.
In your Nuxt project, you can fetch this data during the build process. Here’s a basic example using Nuxt 3’s useAsyncData inside a page component. This fetches data when the page is generated.
// pages/blog/index.vue
<script setup>
const { data: posts } = await useAsyncData('posts', () =>
$fetch('https://your-strapi-app.com/api/blog-posts')
)
</script>
<template>
<div>
<h1>Our Blog</h1>
<article v-for="post in posts" :key="post.id">
<h2>{{ post.attributes.title }}</h2>
<p>{{ post.attributes.excerpt }}</p>
</article>
</div>
</template>But what about single pages, like one specific blog post? Nuxt’s file-based routing makes this intuitive. You create a dynamic page like pages/blog/[slug].vue. The trick is to tell Nuxt which slugs exist, so it can pre-render all those pages. You do this with the generate.routes hook in your nuxt.config.js file.
// nuxt.config.js
export default defineNuxtConfig({
// ... other config
nitro: {
prerender: {
routes: async () => {
// Fetch all blog post slugs from Strapi at build time
const posts = await $fetch('https://your-strapi-app.com/api/blog-posts?fields[0]=slug')
// Return an array of routes to pre-render
return posts.data.map(post => `/blog/${post.attributes.slug}`)
}
}
}
})Now, imagine your content editor publishes a new post in Strapi. Your live site is still showing the old, static pages. How do you update it? This is where webhooks shine. Strapi can send a notification to a service like Vercel or Netlify whenever content is created or updated. That service can then trigger a rebuild of your Nuxt site. Your content updates go live automatically, without you lifting a finger. It feels like magic.
What if your frontend needs more complex data? Strapi’s GraphQL plugin is a game-changer. Instead of making multiple REST calls, you can ask for exactly the data you need in one request. It makes your code cleaner and can improve performance. Installing it is as simple as running yarn strapi install graphql in your Strapi project. Then, in Nuxt, your query might look like this:
const query = gql`
query GetBlogPosts {
blogPosts {
data {
id
attributes {
title
excerpt
coverImage {
data {
attributes {
url
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
`
const { data } = await useAsyncData('posts', () => $fetch('/graphql', {
method: 'POST',
body: { query }
}))This approach is incredibly versatile. Are you building a mobile app that needs the same content? A digital kiosk? An email newsletter? They can all pull from the same Strapi API. Your content lives in one place but can be displayed anywhere. This “headless” approach is the future of content management.
I started this journey wanting to solve a simple problem: to make content updates easy. What I found was a robust, scalable architecture that works for projects of any size. The combination of Nuxt.js and Strapi gives you a developer experience that is joyful and a final product that is fast, secure, and easy to maintain. It empowers everyone on the team.
Have you tried a similar setup? What challenges did you face? I’d love to hear about your experiences in the comments below. If you found this guide helpful, please consider sharing it with another developer who might be wrestling with their content workflow. Let’s build better, faster, and more manageable web experiences together.
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