We have worked on a new and minimalistic CLI implementation codenamed "nuxi" released alongside Nuxt 3. This project aims to continue the CLI development and enhancements in parallel to Nuxt, mainly to achieve new goals:

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🌐 Global

Elegant and powerful nuxt command accessible immediately from everywhere. To bootstrap, init, develop, extend build, and deploy Nuxt project.

While nuxi (as of 3.2.0) is a zero-dependency CLI and designed to be used globally, we have never advocated it as a global CLI due to a lack of proper version management and the ability to self-upgrade. One of the main goals is to make the CLI experience as minimal as possible.

🧩 Modular

New architecture allows composing CLI sub-commands and features from various sources, making Nuxt CLI as extendable and hackable as Nuxt itself!

Using the new "citty" framework, Nuxi commands can be implemented by users, module authors, core, and also ad-hoc modules we make. This allows for making CLI capabilities extendable which was never possible before with single core implementation.

🤖 Automated

Bootstrapping a project, adding a new module or dependency, upgrading Nuxt, changing the configuration, and creating a template is one command away!

Using by new unjs packages (nypm, paneer, scaffolding utils), we can provide more automation to control project

💫 Elegant

With better core integration, experience an informative and fancier CLI than ever!

With an upcoming version of console and error utils, CLI output experience should be even fancier.

🔌 Programmatic

Exposing the Programmatic API interface, allows interaction with CLI using Devtools and Web Browser.

New architecture with Citty, allows direct using utilities from CLI by importing them and interacting with them using /_cli API endpoint during development mode to open new possibilities such as seamless dev tools

⚡️ Rapid Development

With independent versioning and self-upgrade support, we can deliver new updates even faster and work on new ideas.

This is crucial, especially in the early stages to be able to iterate faster in parallel to core and give contributors more visibility.

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• Feedbacks and Ideas
• The journey of Nuxt CLI Generations