NPM Missing Generate Script

Version

v2.13.1

Reproduction link

https://github.com/ngblaylock/nuxt-sandbox/tree/npm-missing-generate-script

Steps to reproduce

When I do a standard npx create-nuxt-app project, my project is set up just fine. I use NPM instead of Yarn. Then, as per the README.md file, I run npm run generate where I get an error.

I can get it to work if I manually put in “generate”: “nuxt generate” in the package.json file, it works, but it is not there by default.

What is expected ?

I expect Nuxt to generate static files into a dist directory.

What is actually happening?

When I go to generate the static files, I get npm ERR! missing script: generate.

Additional comments?

I was going to submit this through codesandbox.com, but I believe since they use Yarn, it works out of the box.

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[ngblaylock]

That makes sense. Then I would still suggest a change on the default README.md to say something along the lines of:

# generate static project
# first ensure target is set to 'static' in the nuxt.config.js file
$ npm run build
$ npm run export

When I follow the instructions to generate a static project in the README.md file, it threw an error since npm run generate didn’t exist. I think new developers could get easily confused by that.

I also noticed that I needed to run nuxt build --target static if I didn’t configure nuxt.config.js.

Something to consider that I think works pretty good is to add

"static": "nuxt build --target static && nuxt export"

to my package.json scripts section. Then run npm run static. Is that a logical script? That considerations is probably better for future readers than for official Nuxt documentation.

[pi0]

Hi @ngblaylock. Actually this change is to encourage using new nuxt export (npm run export) command for static target. You can still add "generate": "nuxt generate" to package.json scripts section for legacy generate.

Docs should be already updated to mention using export (instead of generate).