---
title: "Deploy Nuxt on your own server - Deplo"
description: "Push a Nuxt app and Deplo builds it and runs its Nitro server, on a server you own, with HTTPS in front."
url: "https://deplo.build/frameworks/nuxt"
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updated: "2026-10-09"
---

# Deploy Nuxt on your own server

Push a Nuxt app and Deplo builds it and runs its Nitro server, on a server you own, with HTTPS in front.

## From repo to live in three steps

1. Connect the repository that holds your Nuxt app.
2. Deplo detects Nuxt and sets the install, build and start commands and the port.
3. Push to the branch: every push builds and rolls out a new version.

## What Deplo sets up

- Detected from the nuxt dependency or a nuxt.config file at the root.
- Install, build and start commands chosen for you, with port 3000 already set.
- Server routes and server rendering run in the app's own container.
- HTTPS through Traefik as soon as the domain points at the server.

Detection runs on every deploy and is never stored, so a change to the project is picked up by the next push.

[Learn more](https://deplo.build/docs/concepts/what-happens-on-a-deploy#the-framework-is-detected)

## Nuxt on Deplo

Short answers to what comes up before moving a Nuxt app onto your own server.

### Where do environment variables go?

In the app's settings, per environment. They are available during the build too, and secret values are write only: nothing reads them back.

### Can I run the database next to it?

Yes. Managed databases live in the same environment and reach the app over the internal network.

### Is there downtime when I push?

No. The new container has to pass its health check before the old one is retired.

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