Creating a (404) NotFound Page in Nuxt app

Learn, how to create a (404) NotFound page to handle the wrong paths in Nuxt app.

404 page

A 404 page is also called NotFound page which is used to handle the errors in your site, for example when a user types a wrong URL that is not available in your site you need to show them a NotFound page, so that user understands the page they are trying to access is not available.

Creating the 404 page

1. Open the nuxt app in your favorite code editor.

2. Create a new file called error.vue inside the layouts folder and add a similar code like this.

<template>
  <div class="container">
    <h1>(404) Page not found</h1>    <nuxt-link to="/">Home page</nuxt-link>
  </div>
</template>

Now, start your nuxt app development server and enter any wrong path in the browser URL tab like localhost:3000/sxc3 you will see a 404 page.