Vue Designer Nuxt CSS - Quick start template

This is a starter template that pre-includes the Pinegrow Nuxt Module and other goodies for Vue Designer.

Demo - https://pg-nuxt-css.netlify.app/

Vue Designer

A desktop visual editor for Vue apps supporting Mac, Windows, and Linux by Pinegrow. Take it for a free trial at Vue Designer!

It lets you visually design 🎨 your Vue single file components and boosts your productivity and creativity while building your component-based Vue apps.

It smartly integrates with your ⚡️ Vite based CLI and provides an amazing developer experience with its powerful visual controls and features.

Clean code 😃, No lock-in - You are in control of your projects and development workflow ❤️

Try it now!

1. Clone to local

Create a repo from this template on GitHub.

(or)

If you prefer to do it manually with the cleaner git history

npx giget@latest gh:pinegrow/pg-nuxt my-nuxt-app #project-name
cd my-nuxt-app
npm install #or use pnpm

(or)

If you prefer a minimal template (a single empty home page) instead,

npx giget@latest gh:pinegrow/pg-nuxt#minimal my-nuxt-app #project-name
cd my-nuxt-app
npm install #or use pnpm

2. Open in Vue Designer

Open your project in Vue Designer and follow the instructions displayed in the Config Panel (that should pop out automatically). Config Panel ⚙️ displays the key packages and the various links to their individual ecosystems and communities.

Usage

Start your development server

npm run dev

Build

npm run build # SPA SSR,
npm run generate # SPA SSG (full-static)

Analyze

npm run analyze # bundle sizes

Preview

npm run now # build & preview

Lighthouse

npm run unlighthouse # Uses npx unlighthouse from https://unlighthouse.dev/ to run lighthouse on entire site (all pages)

Deploy to Netlify

You can deploy this repo as a site on your own to explore and experiment with, by clicking this button.

Check out the deployment documentation for more information.

Pre-packed

Meta Framework (Vue-based)

• Nuxt - The Intuitive Vue Framework
  • 👉 Follow the Nuxt docs for the amazing list of features.
  • 🚦 Nuxt-Router, based on the official Vue-Router and enables file-based routing.
  • SSR friendly useState composable to share state across components.

UI Frameworks

• CSS - Scoped CSS in Vue Single File Component (SFC).

File-based CMS (markdown)

• Nuxt Content - file-based CMS powered by Markdown & Vue components. Note: This page is a markdown file 🗒.

Icons

• UnoCSS Preset Icons - use over 100,000 open-source Iconify icons. Uses the unocss format for icon names, for example, i-mdi-home.

Modules/Plugins

• Pinegrow Nuxt Module - enables you to live-design your Vue single-file components visually in Vue Designer.
• VueUse - collection of essential Vue composition utilities.
• 🍍 Pinia stores for global state management via the @pinia/nuxt module. Its light-weight, type-safe, extensible, modular with vue-devtools support.
• VeeValidate takes care of value tracking, validation, errors, submissions and more.
• Nuxt Image - Plug-and-play image optimization for Nuxt apps.
• Nuxt SEO - Amazing collection of hand-crafted Nuxt Modules for all SEO needs with a unified site config. Includes nuxt-site-config, nuxt-simple-robots, nuxt-simple-sitemap, nuxt-og-image, nuxt-link-checker, nuxt-seo-experiments, nuxt-schema-org.
  • OG images and nuxtseo features can be previewed with nuxt-devtools during development. OG images can also be viewed using URL in this form - /__og-image__/image/<path>/og.<extension>

Devtools

• Nuxt Devtools - Enhance your DX (developer experience) with an amazing set of in-app features.
• Vue Devtools - Official devtools that can be used as a standalone app alongside Vue Designer. It's configured as a Nuxt plugin (only during development).
  • ACTION REQUIRED: Currently deactivated. In plugins/devtools.client.ts, uncomment to activate.

VS Code Extensions

• [VS Code Extensions](./.vscode/extensions.json & ./.vscode/settings.json)
  • Volar - Vue 3 <script setup> IDE support
  • ESLint
  • Prettier

Coding Style

• Use Composition API with <script setup> SFC syntax
• ESLint with @nuxt/eslint Nuxt ESLint module that adopts ESLint 9 with a new flat config.
• Prettier with eslint-config-prettier - format without conflicting with eslint rules.

Typescript

This project allows JS, and strict mode is turned off. Update tsconfig.ts as required.

{
  // https://nuxt.com/docs/guide/concepts/typescript
  "extends": "./.nuxt/tsconfig.json",
  "compilerOptions": {
    "allowJs": true,
    "strict": false
  }
}

Community

• Vue Designer Community