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This guide will walk you through how to integrate Netlify CMS with Nuxt.
Starting With create-nuxt-app
Follow the instructions on the Nuxt documentation for creating a new project, or run:
npx create-nuxt-app <name-of-your-new-project>
cd <name-of-your-new-project>
npm run dev
Setting Up Netlify CMS
Add the Netlify CMS files to Nuxt
In the static/ directory, create a new directory admin/. Inside that directory you'll create two files, your index.html and a config.yml. Per the [Netlify CMS documentation], we'll set the content of static/admin/index.html to the following:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
<title>Content Manager</title>
<!-- Include the script that enables Netlify Identity on this page. -->
<script src="https://identity.netlify.com/v1/netlify-identity-widget.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<!-- Include the script that builds the page and powers Netlify CMS -->
<script src="https://unpkg.com/netlify-cms@^2.0.0/dist/netlify-cms.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
For your static/admin/config.yml file, you can put in a basic starter config:
backend:
name: git-gateway
branch: master
media_folder: static/img
public_folder: /img
collections:
- name: 'blog'
label: 'Blog'
format: 'json'
folder: 'assets/content/blog'
create: true
slug: '{{year}}-{{month}}-{{day}}-{{slug}}'
editor:
preview: false
fields:
- { label: 'Title', name: 'title', widget: 'string' }
- { label: 'Publish Date', name: 'date', widget: 'datetime' }
- { label: 'Description', name: 'description', widget: 'string' }
- { label: 'Body', name: 'body', widget: 'markdown' }
You can build whatever collections and content modeling you want. The important thing to note is the format: 'json' value on each collection. This is important for consuming content in Nuxt.
Add the content/ directory to Nuxt
In your assets/ directory, you can create a new directory content/. As you might guess, this is where our content will live. Your filesystem should look about like this, so far:
root/
├ assets/
│ └ content/
├ components/
├ layouts/
├ middleware/
├ pages/
├ plugins/
├ static/
│ └ admin/
│ ├ index.html
│ └ config.yml
├ store/
└ // .editorconfig, .gitignore, nuxt.config.js, etc...
Pushing to GitHub
It's now time to commit your changes and push to GitHub. create-nuxt-app initializes Git automatically for you, so you only need to do:
git add .
git commit -m "Initial Commit"
git remote add origin https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/NEW_REPO_NAME.git
git push -u origin master
Deploying With Netlify
Now you can go ahead and deploy to Netlify. Go to your Netlify dashboard and click New site from Git. Select the repo you just created. Under Basic build settings, you can set the build command to yarn generate and the publish directory to dist. Click Deploy site to get the process going.
Authenticating with Netlify Identity
Add the Netlify Identity Widget
You've already added the Netlify Identity widget to our admin/index.html. The next thing to do is add the Netlify Identity widget to our site's index page. In pages/index.vue, we can add the following to the page <script> tag:
export default {
head() {
return {
script: [{ src: 'https://identity.netlify.com/v1/netlify-identity-widget.js' }],
};
},
};
Once you've added this, make sure to push your changes to GitHub!
More on adding <script> tags to <head> here.
Enable Identity & Git Gateway in Netlify
Back in your Netlify dashboard:
- Go to Settings > Identity, and select Enable Identity service.
- Once enabled, select Settings and usage, and scroll down to Registration preferences. You can set this to either Open or Invite only, but usually Invite only is your best bet for a personal site.
- If you don't want to create an account, or would like to use an external provider such as GitHub or Google, you can enable those services under External providers.
- Scroll down to Services and click Enable Git Gateway.
Accessing the CMS
Once you've reached this point, you should be able to access the CMS in your browser at http://localhost:3000/admin. You'll be prompted to add the URL of your Netlify site. Once you've added that URL, you can log in with an Identity account or with one of the External Providers you enabled in step 3 above. For the sake of this tutorial, you can create a blog post in the CMS, and publish it! Once you git pull in your project, the blog post will show up in the project at assets/content/blog/<slugified-blog-post-title>.json.
Integrating content in Nuxt with Vuex
Note: In order to use nuxtServerInit your mode must be universal in your nuxt.config.js.
Next, you'll set up the integrated Vuex store to collect blog posts. Create a file index.js in the store/ directory, and add state, mutations, and actions for your blog posts:
export const state = () => ({
blogPosts: [],
});
export const mutations = {
setBlogPosts(state, list) {
state.blogPosts = list;
},
};
export const actions = {
async nuxtServerInit({ commit }) {
let files = await require.context('~/assets/content/blog/', false, /\.json$/);
let blogPosts = files.keys().map(key => {
let res = files(key);
res.slug = key.slice(2, -5);
return res;
});
await commit('setBlogPosts', blogPosts);
},
};
Now you can use that content in your templates. In your pages/ directory, create a blog/ directory. Within the blog/ directory, create two files index.vue and _blog.vue. These will respectively be the blog list page and the blog post page.
Blog List Page
In pages/blog/index.vue, you'll add a method to the computed property of the Vue instance to return blog posts from the Vuex store. This will make blogPosts available in the Vue template for you to iterate over, etc.
export default {
computed: {
blogPosts() {
return this.$store.state.blogPosts;
},
},
};
Blog Post Page
Now open your pages/blog/_blog.vue file. Add an asyncData() method to the Vue instance that imports the corresponding JSON file. You can add a payload as well — this will come in handy during the process of running nuxt generate to create a static site.
export default {
async asyncData({ params, payload }) {
if (payload) return { blogPost: payload };
else
return {
blogPost: await require(`~/assets/content/blog/${params.blog}.json`),
};
},
};
Now in your template, you can access whatever properties you need.
<template>
<article>
<h1>{{blogPost.title}}</h1>
<div>{{blogPost.body}}</div>
</article>
</template>
<script>
If you have Markdown in your content, you can use the @nuxtjs/markdownit module to render that.
Rendering Markdown with @nuxtjs/markdownit
First, install the Nuxt markdownit module.
npm install @nuxtjs/markdownit
Next, add the module to your nuxt.config.js and set its configuration. For this example, you can use markdownit's Vue injection.
export default {
modules: ['@nuxtjs/markdownit'],
markdownit: {
injected: true,
},
};
Back in your pages/blog/_blog.vue file, you can update your template to render that Markdown.
<template>
<article>
<h1>{{blogPost.title}}</h1>
<div v-html="$md.render(blogPost.body)" />
</article>
</template>
Generating pages with the generate property
To render your site as a static site, you'll need to update the generate property in nuxt.config.js to create dynamic routes and provide their content as a payload. In generate, make your routes entry a function:
export default {
generate: {
routes: function() {
const fs = require('fs');
const path = require('path');
return fs.readdirSync('./assets/content/blog').map(file => {
return {
route: `/blog/${path.parse(file).name}`, // Return the slug
payload: require(`./assets/content/blog/${file}`),
};
});
},
},
};
Now you can generate your site with nuxt generate.