Nuxt.js with Redis

This tutorial shows how to use Upstash inside your NuxtJS application.

This tutorial uses Redis as state store for a Nuxt.js application. We simply increment a counter that pulls the data from Redis.

See code and demo

1 Create Nuxt.js Project

Run this in terminal

yarn create nuxt-app nuxtjs-with-redis

2 Set up environment variables

Copy the .env.example file in this directory to .env

cp .env.local.example .env.local

• REDIS_URL: Copy the url in the database page of the Upstash console

This example uses ioredis, you can copy the connection string from the Node tab in the console.

3 Server Middleware

We will write a Nuxt middleware which increments a counter in Redis and returns its new value.

title="api/count.js"

import Redis from "ioredis";

export default async function (req, res) {
  const redis = new Redis(process.env.REDIS_URL);
  const count = await redis.incr("counter");
  redis.quit();

  res.setHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
  res.write(JSON.stringify({ count }));
  res.end();
}

Now we will configure the middleware in nuxt.config.js

title="nuxt.config.js"

export default {
  head: { title: "nuxt-with-redis" },
  buildModules: ["@nuxtjs/tailwindcss"],
  serverMiddleware: [{ path: "/api/count", handler: "~/api/count.js" }],
};

4 Run

yarn dev

Go to http://localhost:3000/

Notes:

• For best performance the application should run in the same region with the Redis database’s region.