How to deploy a nuxt app to GitHub Pages

In this tutorial, we are going to learn about how to host your nuxt app to GitHub pages by using the command line.

Deploying to GitHub Pages

1. First, create a new repository in GitHub and push your nuxt app to it.

2. Now, open your nuxt.config.js file and add the following configuration to the export default object.

export default {
   mode: 'static',
   router: {
      base: '/your-github-repository-name/'
   },
   // other config goes here
}

3. Install the gh-pages package by using the below command.

npm install gh-pages --save-dev

4. Add the following deploy commands to your package.json file scripts object.

"predeploy": "nuxt generate",
"deploy": "gh-pages -d dist"

5. Run the following command to successfully deploy your app to GitHub pages.

npm run deploy

Now, open your nuxt app GitHub repository and click on the settings tab, if your scroll down to the GitHub Pages section you will see a nuxt app live URL like this.