$ npx create-nuxt-app <project-name>

It's as simple as that!

:point_right: We recommend to start directly with our cli [create-nuxt-app](https://github.com/nuxt-community/create-nuxt-app) for the latest updates.

Or you can start by using one of our starter templates:

- [express](https://github.com/nuxt-community/express-template): Nuxt.js + Express

- [koa](https://github.com/nuxt-community/koa-template): Nuxt.js + Koa

- [adonuxt](https://github.com/nuxt-community/adonuxt-template): Nuxt.js + AdonisJS

- [micro](https://github.com/nuxt-community/micro-template): Nuxt.js + Micro

- [nuxtent](https://github.com/nuxt-community/nuxtent-template): Nuxt.js + Nuxtent module for content heavy sites

const { Nuxt, Builder } = require('nuxt')

const config = require('./nuxt.config.js')

config.dev = (process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production')

const nuxt = new Nuxt(config)

if (config.dev) {

new Builder(nuxt).build()

}

Learn more: <https://nuxtjs.org/api/nuxt>

You might want to use your own server with your configurations, your API and everything awesome you have created with. That's why you can use nuxt.js as a middleware. It's recommended to use it at the end of your middleware since it will handle the rendering of your web application and won't call next().

app.use(nuxt.render)

Learn more: <https://nuxtjs.org/api/nuxt-render>

This is mostly used for `nuxt generate` and test purposes but you might find another utility!

nuxt.renderRoute('/about', context)

.then(function ({ html, error }) {

// You can check error to know if your app displayed the error page for this route

// Useful to set the correct status code if an error appended:

if (error) {

return res.status(error.statusCode || 500).send(html)

}

res.send(html)

})

.catch(function (error) {

// And error appended while rendering the route

})

Learn more: <https://nuxtjs.org/api/nuxt-render-route>

Please take a look at <https://nuxtjs.org/examples> or directly in <https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt.js/tree/dev/examples>.

To deploy, instead of running nuxt, you probably want to build ahead of time. Therefore, building and starting are separate commands:

nuxt build

nuxt start

For example, to deploy with [`now`](https://zeit.co/now) a `package.json` like follows is recommended:

{

"name": "my-app",

"dependencies": {

"nuxt": "latest"

},

"scripts": {

"dev": "nuxt",

"build": "nuxt build",

"start": "nuxt start"

}

}

Then run `now` and enjoy!

Note: we recommend putting `.nuxt` in `.npmignore` or `.gitignore`.