Nuxt.js: Generating pages without client side js added

[guillaumechereau]

Is it possible to generate pages without client side javascript code added (specially the 'window.__NUXT__ = ...' at the end)? I am working on a website where most pages don't have any user interaction, but still use complex server side rendering involving a lot of data. My served html pages get a lot bigger than they should because of the data added at the end in the __NUXT__ variable.

I wish there was a flag that would somehow tell nuxtjs that some pages should only use server side rendering. This would also make nuxtjs a nice alternative to jekyll, thanks to the generate command.

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[xalioth]

What about https://nuxtjs.org/guide/vuex-store/#the-nuxtserverinit-action ?

[guillaumechereau]

@xalioth: no, that is the same: the data put in the store ends up in the html window.__NUXT__ variable.

[jbmoelker]

@alexchopin why is this issue closed? I think it's a relevant question. If the answer is NO that is also understandable I think. However, maybe you or someone has a workaround in that case?

[wezz]

@alexchopin I agree with @jbmoelker.
I even noticed that if I rename a generated file it will stop working if the client side scripts are still included. The page was rendered for a second then turned white.

But they will work as expected if the scripts are removed.

On my small example I counted 296.3KB (not GZipped) of JS that wasn't required to show the generated markup.

[ashersaupingomez]

+1

Is it possible to have a completely JS-less page with nuxt?

[Xowap]

Yup I'm also wondering?

[AndrewGrachov]

upvote

[peckomingo]

I also have a project with a lot of static pages generated with nuxt. But none of this pages has JS functionality in some way, so I wondered the same thing, if it is possible to generate without the JS overhead added to the page? I just want this flexibility to use Nuxt at the one hand, but have more control over JS injected.

EDIT: I also found this issue with a potential solution to the problem. https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt.js/issues/2822#issuecomment-366527838

[qm3ster]

It's not overhead, it's underhead, @peckomingo.

[martpie]

@alexchopin Seems like a valid question, some people use Nuxt because developing things with is so simple.

[AndrewGrachov]

we managed to fork out nuxt and add a simple parameter.. Looks like a hack, as it is, actually. Using nuxt.js as a static page generator

https://github.com/crello/nuxt.js/commit/93ea141ba563356c58e9b2c572dbe280021f164e

[qm3ster]

The only thing worse than an abundance of options is scope creep

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