☁ Deploying a Nuxt.js (v2) App to Google App Engine (Google Cloud Platform)

This article will help you deplyoing a Nuxt 2.0 application to Google’s App Engine — in no time 🔥.

❗️️Update: I now also updated the official Nuxt documentation with a guide for Google App Engine, check it out: https://nuxtjs.org/faq/appengine-deployment

1) Install Nuxt.js

⏭ skip to section 2 if you already have a Nuxt.js project running ⏭

Follow the instructions on the link below to create a basic nuxt app:

https://github.com/nuxt/create-nuxt-app

npx create-nuxt-app <my-project>

❗️️ Make sure to replace “<project-name>” with your project-name!

You can choose which options you like yourself, but make sure to have rendering mode “universal” applied so it is a SSR project.

? Project name nuxt2-appengine
? Project description Deploying Nuxt 2.0 to Google App Engine
? Use a custom server framework none
? Use a custom UI framework none
? Choose rendering mode Universal
? Use axios module no
? Use eslint no
? Use prettier no
? Author name Pascal Luther
? Choose a package manager npm

After following the installation instruction you should be able to run your project and see the following: