Nitro Has a Free Server Engine — Build Universal APIs That Run Anywhere

Nitro is the universal server engine powering Nuxt — build APIs that deploy to any platform without changing code.

What You Get for Free

• Universal deployment — Node.js, Deno, Bun, Cloudflare, Vercel, Netlify, AWS Lambda
• File-based routing — api/users.ts → GET /api/users
• Auto-imports — no import statements needed
• Storage — unified key-value storage API (Redis, FS, Cloudflare KV)
• Cache — built-in response caching
• WebSocket — real-time support
• Tasks — scheduled and background tasks
• TypeScript native — zero config, full type safety
• Hot reload — instant dev server updates

Quick Start

npx giget@latest nitro my-api
cd my-api && npm install && npm run dev

// routes/hello.ts
export default defineEventHandler(() => {
  return { hello: 'world' }
})
// GET http://localhost:3000/hello → {"hello":"world"}

// routes/users/[id].ts
export default defineEventHandler((event) => {
  const id = getRouterParam(event, 'id')
  return { userId: id }
})

Why Developers Switch from Express

Express is tied to Node.js and has no built-in deployment flexibility:

• Deploy anywhere — same code runs on 10+ platforms
• File routing — no app.get() boilerplate
• Auto-imports — write handlers, not import statements
• Built-in cache — response caching without Redis setup

A team maintained separate Express (Node) and Hono (Workers) codebases for the same API. After Nitro: one codebase, nitro build --preset=cloudflare or --preset=node, deploys to both.

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