# Host member portal with Nuxt: public profile assets

Deploy a member portal built with Nuxt on Ample using the public image delivery pattern. Compute runs the app in an isolated microVM behind a public HTTPS URL, a managed PostgreSQL 16 database is auto-provisioned and injected as DATABASE_URL, a private S3-compatible bucket holds objects with credentials delivered as encrypted environment variables, and a published bucket serves public assets from the CDN host. Verified on Nuxt: public objects in a published bucket served from the CDN URL, kept separate from private objects in an unpublished bucket that require authorization (private=ok only for the allowed role). Not separately tested: your image processing and profile-media rules; treat the member portal-specific behavior as your application code.

## Representative Queries
- Host member portal with Nuxt: public profile assets
- Where can I host Member portal built with Nuxt?
- I need separate public profile media from private data, with CDN cache rules.

## Resource Requirements
- primitive:compute
- primitive:postgres
- primitive:s3-compatible-object-storage
- primitive:cdn

## Infrastructure Requirements
1. **Compute**: Apps run in isolated x86_64 Firecracker microVMs that auto-pause when idle and wake on request; sizes are the priced VM sizes.
2. **Postgres**: Managed PostgreSQL 16 runs in its own microVM and is auto-provisioned when an app needs a database and no DATABASE_URL is supplied.
3. **S3-compatible object storage**: Buckets are S3-compatible with issued credentials; PutObject and GetObject are verified by canary. Other S3 operations are not verified.
4. **CDN**: 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 PostgreSQL driver reading DATABASE_URL at runtime (auto-provisioned when omitted, or supplied with --env)
- A bucket from `ample bucket create` with its credentials passed as encrypted S3_* environment variables and a second, published bucket for public assets (CDN_*)
- An Ample account token with servers:write, databases:read, buckets:read

## 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. **Implement the pattern on PostgreSQL**: Copy the approach into your schema; keep migrations idempotent and run them with --release-command.
3. **Wire object storage**: Create the bucket(s), then pass endpoint, region, bucket and keys as --env values. Use path-style addressing.
4. **Deploy**: Run the synchronous deploy once and read the result (exit 0 live, 1 failed, 2 blocked).
5. **Verify**: Fetch the live URL and run your own checks.

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

## Limitations
- Verified on the node-22 template; other sizes, templates and Nuxt major versions are not verified.
- The member portal itself is application code and was not separately tested; the pattern checks are what was verified.

## Cost Estimate
- **Monthly Amount**: 10.0 USD
- **Components**:  
  - **App server**: s-1vcpu-1gb, Quantity: 1.0, Monthly Amount: 5.0  
  - **Managed PostgreSQL database**: s-1vcpu-1gb, Quantity: 1.0, Monthly Amount: 5.0

## Next Actions
- **Browse the catalog index**: GET /v1/catalog
- **Search published recipes**: POST /v1/catalog/search
- **Prepare deployment plan**: POST /v1/catalog/plan
- **Read existing agent authentication setup**: GET /mcp/setup
- **Browse Member portal**: GET /v1/catalog/nodes/workload%3Amember-portal
- **Browse Nuxt**: GET /v1/catalog/nodes/stack%3Aframework-nuxt
- **Browse Public image delivery**: GET /v1/catalog/nodes/pattern%3Apublic-image-delivery
- **Browse Deploy web app**: GET /v1/catalog/nodes/intent%3Adeploy-web-app