Nuxt DatoCMS

Nuxt 3 module for DatoCMS, a wonderful Headless CMS.

✨ Release Notes

Features

⛰ Integration with Nuxt's useAsyncData() for de-duplicated requests
🌲 Pre-configured preview mode for draft content, and real-time updates
👌 Auto-imports composables + components from vue-datocms
🧭 Easily generate a sitemap for your DatoCMS-powered site (coming soon)
⚙️ Compatible with any data-fetching library (Villus, Apollo, axios, etc) (coming soon)

Usage

Note: This module is for Nuxt 3. We do not provide a Nuxt 2 version.

If you are a first-time DatoCMS user, read the Nuxt DatoCMS page to get a project ready in less than 5 minutes.

Installation

Add @hexdigital/nuxt-datocms dependency to your project

pnpm add -D @hexdigital/nuxt-datocms
# yarn add --dev @hexdigital/nuxt-datocms
# npm install --save-dev @hexdigital/nuxt-datocms

Add @hexdigital/nuxt-datocms to the modules section of nuxt.config.ts

export default defineNuxtConfig({
  modules: [
    '@hexdigital/nuxt-datocms'
  ]
});

Configure the options for this module. If you want to enable viewing draft content, set the optional parameters too:

export default defineNuxtConfig({
  modules: [
    '@hexdigital/nuxt-datocms'
  ],
  datocms: {
    publicReadOnlyToken: '<dato-cms-read-only-published-token>',

    // Optional - if you'd like to enable draft previews
    privateDraftEnabledToken: '<dato-cms-read-only-draft-enabled-token>',
    privatePreviewModePassword: 'showmethenewstuff', // A password required to enable draft previews
    privatePreviewModeEncryptionSecret: '14e6f2b5ebefb46270ed411e916c452a377c70f5d548cb6b672ec40d7e1ab8ef', // A hash that is stored on the User's device once draft is enabled, to prove it's legitimate. Change this to turn-off all currently active draft previews

    // Optional - if you'd like to allow user's to preview new content without needing to enter a password (beta documentation that's open for feedback, for example).
    disablePreviewPassword: true, // defaults to false

    // Optional - if you'd like to disable using the default server API routes for draft preview (so you can create your own, for example)
    registerApiHandlers: false, // defaults to true

    // Optional - do not include environment if you're not using environments, and usually no need to include endpoint either
    // environment: 'production', // defaults to undefined
    // endpoint: 'https://graphql.datocms.com',
  },
});

API tokens can be generated inside of your project, in Settings > API tokens. See image below

That's it! You can now use Nuxt DatoCMS in your Nuxt app ✨

Requesting content

This module exposes two main composables, useAsyncDatoCms() and useDatoCms().

For most cases, we recommend using useAsyncDatoCms(). It's a wrapper around Nuxt's useAsyncData(), which allows us to de-duplicate our requests when using SSR, amongst other benefits.

// pages/index.vue

// This module sets `toHead` and `useAsyncDatoCms` to be auto-imported by Nuxt, if you have this enabled, so these imports aren't needed
import { toHead } from 'vue-datocms';
import { useAsyncDatoCms } from '@hexdigital/nuxt-datocms';

import { homepageQuery } from '~/apis/dato-cms/graphql/queries/getHomepage';

const { data } = await useAsyncDatoCms({ query: homepageQuery });

// An example of using page data to set your SEO tags for the page
useHead(() => toHead(data.value?.homepage?._seoMetaTags || {}));

If you're not looking to use useAsyncData() at all, then you can use the useDatoCms() composable instead. The behaviour is the same, just without the useAsyncData() wrapper around the fetch call.

Module Development

# Install dependencies
pnpm install

# Generate type stubs
pnpm run dev:prepare

# Develop with the playground
pnpm run dev

# Build the playground
pnpm run dev:build

# Run ESLint
pnpm run lint

# Run Vitest
pnpm run test
pnpm run test:watch

# Release new version
pnpm run release

Contributing

All contributions are welcome. Please see our Contribution Guidelines.