• nuxt.build() is now ran automatically on development mode
• Option build.buildNamespace has been renamed to buildDir
• JSDOM has been updated to use the latest API (nuxt.renderAndGetWindow)
• For nuxt generate, you can now give a payload to avoid multiple API call, see this example to see how to use it.
• context.hotReload (boolean) has been added to know when middleware or page hooks are being called from the hot reload or not (only in development) (fix #812)
• window.onNuxtReady has been fixed (fix #829)
• Option dev is now equal to false when process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production'
• Fix module to be called before listening the server

• Add index.d.ts for TypeScript compatibility
• Use webpack-node-externals (PR #780 by @egoist)
• Optimize generate by giving a payload (PR #768 by @jroxendal)
• Fix class component TypeEror (PR #765 by @clarkdo)
• Add build.buildNamespace to manage multiple apps into the same folder (PR #776 by @motia)

Features

• Add generate.interval to wait X ms between every render on nuxt generate (@jroxendal via #617)

Improvements

• Add --config-file option in nuxt dev mode (@alexmoreno via #592)
• Add chunkNames on Webpack for code-splitted pages and layouts:

Bug fixes

• The bundles are now directly in the dist folder when using nuxt generate with publicPath being an URL (fix #612)
• Lock version for Vue ~2.2, we are working on implementing Vue 2.3 as soon as possible! (@qm3ster via #637)

Features

• Introduction of injectAs property for the plugin. It let you inject your plugin in the root application and also in the context, see i18n example which now use vue-i18n. Also checkout the documentation about it.
• Nuxt.js is now compatible with vue-class-component, see example.
• Offline usage (one step forward to PWA!) is now possible via an offline option in the nuxt.config.js(thanks to @rohitpal99 via #372), it's actually a WIP, you can look at the offline example to learn more about it.

Improvements

• You now have access to this in the data hook 🔥
• Give nuxt instance as context (this) to build.extend method (@any35 via #488)
• Add store parameter in validate method (@agoalofalife via #507)
• Add babel-preset-es2015 in dependencies to avoid error with some external libraries

Features

• Nested Vuex modules are now possible via the file API (@rhwilr via #447), see the vuex-store-modules example
• Nuxt.js extracts manifest.[hash].jsto bundle the webpack runtime code, improving the vendor bundle cache possibilities (see Webpack doc). The filename is customisable, see build.filenames.manifest.

Bug fixes

• Give the layout via window.__NUXT__.layout, this avoids calling middleware on client-side before mounting the app
• Fix host & port inverted on console.log (https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt.js/issues/443#issuecomment-289227277)

Features

• We can now specify the watchers options for chokidar and webpack via nuxt.config.js:

module.exports = {
  watchers: {
    chokidar: {
      usePolling: true
    },
    webpack: {
      aggregateTimeout: 1000,
      poll: 1000
    }
  }
}

Improvements

• Show url after each build #443

Improvements

• Watch middleware and store with chokidar to avoid restarting the app when these folders are created during development.

Bug fixes

• Add store in context before hydrating the client (@evseevn via #442, fix #445)

Improvements

• Webpack finally build only once, thanks to @andyhall for his hack https://github.com/webpack/watchpack/issues/25#issuecomment-287789288
• Nuxt.js now import .scss, .sass, .less and .styl files (only the webpack loaders dependencies needs to be installed), useful for using external libraries

✋ Thanks a lot to all the contributors and people helping us to make Nuxt.js better! ✋

This should be the last release with a breaking change before the 1.0! You can see our roadmap here.

Breaking changes

• data is now asyncData for pages components, it's not asyncData which receives the context and can be asynchronous, this is to respect the vue.js methods. It also fix the mixins with data. If you used the context in your data methods, please rename them to asyncData starting from this release. See updated documentation.
• Static Generated: generate.routeParams is replaced by generate.routes which has to be an array of dynamics routes called by Nuxt, see updated documentation.

Features

• Nuxt.js use Vue 2.2.5 and its rendering feature for CSS, no more CSS extracted, only the strict minimum CSS is now included in every page server-rendered!
• Cache for bundle with hash name are now available, combined with the build.publicPath option, it's a perfect combo for hosting your .nuxt/dist/ files on any CDN!
• Use the official babel-preset-vue-app for babel default configuration (suggestion by @cj in #271). You can now write JSX directly into your Vue components, see hello-world-jsx example.
• New option build.publicPath, useful to set CDN url for production deployment or changing the /_nuxt/ path if you don't like it.
• New option router.mode, let's you define the vue-router mode (default to 'history') (@cj via #272)
• Add ~middleware alias
• We can now specify a custom layout for the layouts/error.vue component, see #172
• The app template is now customisable! Read more on the app.html documentation.
• nuxt build accept now a -c or --config-file option now (@PierreRambaud via #392)
• New option: generate.minify to customize html-minifier options.
• We can now import CSS files directly in <script>, making Nuxt.js compatible with more external libraries.

Improvements

• nuxt.render now always returns a Promise, even in dev mode when the build is not ready yet
• Cleaner build/error outputs for terminal (@cj via #274)
• Nuxt.js prefetch every code-splitted to improve the loading performance when navigating, you have nothing to do, simply upgrade and your app will be faster! (you can disable it via the nuxt.config.js with performance.prefetch: false)
• We also added gzip support in production (you can disable it via the nuxt.config.js with performance.gzip)
• store.replaceState(window.__NUXT__.state) is now made before importing the plugin. import store from '~store' in plugins (client-side) will have the store filled.
• Add duration property in transition

Bug fixes

• When switching layout, the page component are created only once (fix #214)
• extendRoutes works with generate + windows paths (fix #275)
• Middleware are called from error page and the layout is respected when redirected (fix #389)

Examples

• with-vuetify example (@bratberg via #384)

Bug fixes

• Fix regression from v0.9.8 of routes order (#235)

Features

• The middleware feature is out 🔥 ! Read more on the documentation.

You can check the example-auth0 repository to see a real-life example. Otherwise, you can check the i18n example or the middleware example.

• Wildcard route: _.vue will now create a route { path: '/*', name: 'all' }

Improvements

• ~store links now to the store file which exports the vuex store instance, useful to require it in plugins to extend it, same for ~router. See documentation.
• A progress bar is now displayed when building the application (thanks to progress-bar-webpack-plugin)

• No need to use a root div for the <nuxt> component (@sirlancelot via #229)

Bug fixes

• Fix regression from v0.9.7: data was not called anymore when query changed, it's now fixed.
• Fix bug: routes generated by file names were in the wrong order.

Features

• Add the --analyze (or -a) option to nuxt build, this will launch the bundle analyzer to let you see how to improve the size of your bundle. You can also use the build.analyze option, see documentation.
• It is possible to extend the routes with the extendRoutes property in the nuxt.config.js file, see documentation.
• You can customise the scrollBehavior of vue-router via nuxt.config.js, see documentation.

Improvements

• nuxt <command> does not spawn a process anymore, this facilitates the communication between the processes (@yuchonghua via #147)
• nuxt build and nuxt generate now exit with the status code 1 when the webpack build fail (fix #125)
• Improve error handling in data and fetch to avoid recursive JSON error (fix #134)
• nuxt.render sends back a promise to know when the page has been rendered (via #157)

Dependencies

• Remove cross-spawn dependency
• Use webpack v2.2.0
• Upgrade Vue to v2.1.10 and vue-router to v2.1.3

Fixes

• Fix dynamic page when calling error() and going back to another page (fix #96)
• The data and fetch methods are not called anymore on hashchange
• The progress bar works now when switching layout (fix #113)

Features

• Add the ability to generate store module with the file API (PR #92), see documentation

Shoutout to @Granipouss for this great feature!

Improvements

• Use the { isJSON: true } option for serialize-javascript, which improves the performance of server-side rendering and force the component data to be plain object (better security)
• enterToClass and leaveToClass has been added in the transition options
• We can now define transition hooks in the nuxt.config.js- #34 (comment)

Patches

• CSS Modules when building for production (disable extractTextPlugin on the server bundle) (fix #109)
• Route names for parent routes (fix #119)
• IE 10 compatibility (fix #93)

Dependencies

• Upgrade Vue to v2.1.8
• Upgrade webpack to v2.2.0-rc5, fix #98
• All dependencies are up to date

New Features

Using aync/await 🔥

You can use async/await in your components, the best use case is the asynchronous data method.

Example: pages/posts/_id.vue

<template>
  <div>
    <h1>{{ post.title }}</h1>
    <pre>{{ post.body }}</pre>
  </div>
</template>

<script>
import axios from 'axios'

export default {
  async data ({ params }) {
    // We can now use ES7 async/await
    let { data } = await axios.get(`https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/${params.id}`)
    return { post: data }
  }
}
</script>

See the updated documentation.

Extend webpack configuration

Add extend(webpackConfig, { dev, isClient, isServer }) option in the build configuration. This option let you extend the webpack configuration for your application, this is for advanced users.

Example: nuxt.config.js

module.exports = {
  build: {
    extend (config, { dev, isClient }) {
      // config is the webpack config
      // dev is a boolean, equals false when `nuxt build`
      // isClient is a boolean, let you know when you extend
      // the config for the client bundle or the server bundle
      config.devtool = (dev ? 'eval-source-map' : false)
  }
}

Scroll to the top in page components

Add scrollToTop: true/false option in page component (default: false), this option, when set to true will force the router to scroll to the top of the page (used for children routes).

Core updates

• The build of Nuxt.js does not use babel-polyfill but directly the required polyfills

Bug fixes

• Fix the component data on hot-reloading (bug fix) when navigating trough the app

Bug fixes

• Fix custom layouts with dash in their names (issue #78), fixed by @pi0 in #79

🎄 Merry Christmas! 🎄

Custom Layouts

This release should be the last one with breaking a change

Nuxt.js let you now define custom layout for specific page now, to see it in action, please take a look at the our demonstration video.

⚠️ The main breaking changes are:

• The <nuxt-container> component does not exist anymore (you can simply use a <div> to wrap your layout template)
• The default application layout is layouts/default.vue instead of layouts/app.vue

🔥 Features:

• The layout is loaded only when used (webpack code-splitting)
• You can overwrite the custom layout in layouts/default.vue
• You can set the which layout to use in the page component with the layout property
• Define custom head elements depending of the layout

The default layout of Nuxt.js is:

<template>
  <nuxt/>
</template>

Please take a look at the updated documentation.

Bug fixes

• Routes generations with complex pages files tree (see the test/fixtures/dynamic-routes/)

Tests

More tests has been added to cover the bug fixes and also the layout feature.

Dependencies

• Upgrade autoprefixer to v6.6.0
• Upgrade debug to v2.5.1
• Upgrade lodash to v4.17.3
• Upgrade vue to v2.1.7
• Upgrade webpack to v2.2.0-rc.2
• Upgrade webpack-hot-middleware to v2.14.0

Features

• When a dynamic route is created in a folder without index.vue, the parameter will be optional:

pages/
--| users/
-----| _id.vue

Will create the route /users/:id?.

Improvements

• nuxt.renderAndGetWindow(url) does not need jsdom as the first argument anymore, it will try to require it automatically (renderAndGetWindow is made to faciliate the tests with Nuxt.js)
• Nuxt.js has now 100% of coverage

Bug fixes

• Fix nuxt generate minified HTML which was not working because of the removeComments: true option
• Fix nuxt generate on validate({ query, params }) method -> not server-render it when not valid
• Fix crash when children has no data method
• Fix validate() call on children routes

Improvements

• Upgrade dependencies (Vuex 2.1.1 & Vue 2.1.6)
• Set preserveWhitespace: false in vue-loader configuration to avoid SSR mismatch error
• Improve the call to data() when staying in the same view but the query changed