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NuxtPress - WordPress x Nuxt Development Environment

Generate and Deploy

As an alternative to running WordPress on a production server, NuxtPress provides the ability to generate a static site.

Note: This is only possible if there is no on-site, user generated content, such as comments.

Northosts have tweaked the NuxtJS generate command, so that a fully static site with all content, posts and pages can be generated inside the dist directory of Nuxt.

This static HTML site can then be uploaded to a webserver of choice.

This generation script was built by Northosts. See https://github.com/northosts/wuxt/

Generating a fully static site

First be sure your containers are running

docker-compose up -d

Then go to the NuxtPress root-directory and run generate with yarn

yarn generate

This command spins up a new docker container that is used to generate the static site. Your original contains will be restarted during this process.

When the generation is complete, a small local web-server will be available with the static site on it:

http://localhost:8080

And the generated files can be found in the dist directory, inside nuxtpress/nuxt:

nuxtpress/nuxt/dist

To shut down the local web-server you have to run the following command inside the nuxtpress directory:

docker-compose -f generate.yml down

How it works

The generate command has been extended, so that it handles its original task, and completes a secondary task as well.

The original command scrapes all URLs added to NuxtJS and creates html-output.

It now will also scrape all WordPress URLs, storing the responses, as well as caching the responses for any WP calls made on the Nuxt pages.

In order to find out these WordPress URLs, the generate command asks the WordPress Rest API for a list of existing endpoints, and all links used in the WordPress menus. You can view that list with the following endpoint:

localhost:3080/wp-json/wuxt/v1/generate

Since NuxtJS doesn't fully support 100% static sites yet, we have to get help of the static plugin used on nuxt.org, which takes care of the payload caching. Read more here and here.