# Host documentation site with Nuxt: public-site delivery

## Summary
Deploy a documentation site built with Nuxt on Ample using the public web service pattern. Compute runs the app in an isolated microVM behind a public HTTPS URL, and a published bucket serves public assets from the CDN host. Verified on Nuxt: a versioned, immutable-cached asset uploaded to a published bucket and served from the CDN URL alongside the app's own public HTTPS URL. Not separately tested: your site content and build; treat the documentation site-specific behavior as your application code.

## Representative Queries
- Host documentation site with Nuxt: public-site delivery
- Where can I host Documentation site built with Nuxt?
- I need an explicit origin-to-CDN delivery path and a tested public content build.

## Resource Requirements
- `primitive:compute`
- `primitive:cdn`

## Infrastructure Requirements
1. **Compute**
   - Status: verified
   - Summary: Apps run in isolated x86_64 Firecracker microVMs that auto-pause when idle and wake on request; sizes are the priced VM sizes.
2. **CDN**
   - Status: verified
   - Summary: The CDN host serves objects from published buckets. It does not front app compute and is not a cache or key-value store.

## Prerequisites
- A Nuxt project that builds and starts with the documented commands (nuxt build then node .output/server/index.mjs (reads HOST and PORT) on the node-22 template)
- A bucket from `ample bucket create` with its credentials passed as encrypted S3_* environment variables
- An Ample account token with servers:write, buckets:read

## Tested Configuration
- **Template**: node-22
- **Runtime**: node
- **Size**: s-1vcpu-1gb
- **Install**: npm install
- **Build**: npm run build --if-present
- **Start**: npm run start

## Workflow Steps
1. **Build and start**: nuxt build then node .output/server/index.mjs (reads HOST and PORT) on the node-22 template. The server must bind 0.0.0.0 on PORT.
2. **Wire object storage**: Create the bucket(s), then pass endpoint, region, bucket and keys as --env values. Use path-style addressing. Keep private data in an unpublished bucket. Publish only the bucket that serves public assets and reference its CDN URL.
3. **Deploy**: Run the synchronous deploy once and read the result (exit 0 live, 1 failed, 2 blocked). Re-running with no change is a no-op. Command: `ample deploy . --name  --public --env S3_ENDPOINT=... --env S3_REGION=... --env S3_BUCKET=... --env S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID=... --env S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=... --env CDN_PUBLIC_URL=...`
4. **Verify**: Fetch the live URL and the pattern self-test route(s) (/api/p/versioned-static-assets) from the example; then run your own checks. On failure read `ample logs  --kind build` then `--kind runtime`. Command: `ample logs  --kind build`

## Examples
- **Nuxt pattern fixture**: Multi-pattern Nuxt app whose public web service module was checked live; the module is under tests/deploy-canaries/_pattern-modules.

## Success Checks
1. App responds on its public URL.
   - Kind: http_get
   - Path: / 
   - Expect: ample canary nuxt patterns
2. Versioned-static-assets self-test.
   - Kind: http_get
   - Path: /api/p/versioned-static-assets
   - Expect: a CDN URL whose content is served publicly.

## Limitations
- Verified on the node-22 template at s-1vcpu-1gb with the example fixture; other sizes, templates and Nuxt major versions are not verified.
- The documentation site itself (your site content and build) is application code and was not separately tested; the pattern checks are what was verified.

## Cost Estimate
- **Currency**: USD
- **Monthly Amount**: 5.0
- **Components**:
  - App Server: s-1vcpu-1gb (quantity: 1.0, monthly amount: 5.0)
  - Note: Always-on monthly price of the tested sizes; apps and databases auto-pause when idle. Buckets are allocation-priced per quota and not included.

## Evidence Summary
- **Kind**: canary_run
  - Summary: Nuxt pattern fixture deployed on Ample (nuxt build then node .output/server/index.mjs (reads HOST and PORT) on the node-22 template); checks passed for versioned-static-assets and configuration-secrets.
- **Last Verified At**: 2026-09-20T03:31:44Z

## Unknowns
- Region availability is unknown until a verified region fact is recorded
- Compliance attestations are unknown; none are claimed.

## Formats
- HTML: [Link](/content/recipes/documentation-site/nuxt/public-site/index.html)
- Markdown: [Link](/content/recipes/documentation-site/nuxt/public-site.md)
- JSON: [Link](https://api.ample.computer/v1/catalog/recipes/page%3Arecipes%3Adocumentation-site%3Anuxt%3Apublic-site)