Nuxt on AWS with SST
Create and deploy a Nuxt app to AWS with SST.
We are going to create a Nuxt app, add an S3 Bucket for file uploads, and deploy it to AWS using SST.
Before you get started, make sure to configure your AWS credentials.
1. Create a project
Let’s start by creating our project.
We are picking the npm as the package manager.
Init SST
Now let’s initialize SST in our app.
Select the defaults and pick AWS. This’ll create a sst.config.ts
file in your project root.
It’ll also ask you to update your nuxt.config.ts
with something like this.
Start dev mode
Run the following to start dev mode. This’ll start SST and your Nuxt app.
Once complete, click on MyWeb in the sidebar and open your Nuxt app in your browser.
2. Add an S3 Bucket
Let’s allow public access
to our S3 Bucket for file uploads. Update your sst.config.ts
.
Add this above the Nuxt
component.
Link the bucket
Now, link the bucket to our Nuxt app.
3. Generate a pre-signed URL
When our app loads, we’ll call an API that’ll generate a pre-signed URL for the file upload. Create a new server/api/presigned.ts
with the following.
Add the relevant imports.
And install the npm packages.
4. Create an upload form
Add a form to upload files to the presigned URL. Replace our app.vue
with:
Head over to the local app in your browser, http://localhost:3000
and try uploading an image. You should see it upload and then download the image.
5. Deploy your app
Now let’s deploy your app to AWS.
You can use any stage name here but it’s good to create a new stage for production.
Congrats! Your site should now be live!
Connect the console
As a next step, you can setup the SST Console to git push to deploy your app and monitor it for any issues.
You can create a free account and connect it to your AWS account.