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Building a Dashboard App With Nuxt 4

A placeholder tutorial on structuring a real app dev project with Nuxt 4.

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The Project

Imagine a simple analytics dashboard — two pages, a shared layout, and a handful of API calls. This post walks through how to structure it cleanly in Nuxt 4.

Key Patterns

File-based routing

Every file under app/pages/ becomes a route automatically. No router config needed.

Auto-imports

Components and composables are available globally — no import statements required.

// No import needed — useFetch is auto-imported
const { data } = await useFetch('/api/stats');

Layouts

A shared app/layouts/default.vue wraps every page, keeping the topbar and sidebar out of individual page files.

Take-aways

  1. Start with file-based routing — it scales surprisingly well
  2. Lean on auto-imports; hand-writing them is just noise
  3. Put shared state in composables, not in page components

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