Nuxt Directus

Directus SDK for Nuxt 3.

• ✔️ SSR support
• ✔️ Rest client via useDirectusRest composable based on the new Directus SDK
• ✔️ Graphql client based on Nuxt Apollo module
• ✔️ Auth handler via useDirectusAuth with auto refresh of token and auto redirection.
• ✔️ Ready to use starter

Installation

Add @bg-dev/nuxt-directus dependency to your project

# Using npm
npm install --save-dev @bg-dev/nuxt-directus

# Using pnpm
pnpm install --save-dev @bg-dev/nuxt-directus

# Using yarn
yarn add --dev @bg-dev/nuxt-directus

Setup

Add @bg-dev/nuxt-directus to the modules section of nuxt.config.ts and set directus options

export default defineNuxtConfig({
  modules: ["@bg-dev/nuxt-directus"],

  directus: {
    rest: {
      baseUrl: "http://localhost:8055", // Directus app base url
      nuxtBaseUrl: "http://localhost:3000", // Nuxt app base url
    },
    graphql: {
      enabled: true,
      httpEndpoint: "http://localhost:8055/graphql",
      wsEndpoint: "", // Omit to disable Websockets
    },
    auth: {
      enabled: true,
      mode: "session", // Auth mode 'session' or 'cookie'
      enableGlobalAuthMiddleware: false, // Enable auth middleware on every page
      userFields: ["*"], // Select user fields
      refreshTokenCookieName: "directus_refresh_token",
      sessionTokenCookieName: "directus_session_token",
      loggedInFlagName: "directus_logged_in",
      msRefreshBeforeExpires: 10000,
      redirect: {
        login: "/auth/login", // Path to redirect when login is required
        logout: "/auth/login", // Path to redirect after logout
        home: "/home", // Path to redirect after successful login
        resetPassword: "/auth/reset-password", // Path to redirect for password reset
        callback: "/auth/callback", // Path to redirect after login with provider
      },
    },
  },
});

That's it! You can now use @bg-dev/nuxt-directus in your Nuxt app ✨

REST

The module has useDirectusRest composable for data fetching with REST API. It is a wrapper around Directus SDK request API with auto refresh of access token and auto-imported commands. For better DX, you can get the types definition of your directus project via directus-extension-generate-types. The generated types.ts file can be used in your Nuxt project via the global DirectusSchema type.

import { CustomDirectusTypes } from "./types";

type DirectusTypes =
  | "directus_activity"
  | "directus_collections"
  | "directus_dashboards"
  | "directus_fields"
  | "directus_files"
  | "directus_flows"
  | "directus_folders"
  | "directus_migrations"
  | "directus_notifications"
  | "directus_operations"
  | "directus_panels"
  | "directus_permissions"
  | "directus_presets"
  | "directus_relations"
  | "directus_revisions"
  | "directus_roles"
  | "directus_sessions"
  | "directus_settings"
  | "directus_shares"
  | "directus_translations"
  | "directus_users"
  | "directus_webhooks";

declare global {
  interface DirectusSchema extends Omit<CustomDirectusTypes, DirectusTypes> {}
}

export {};

Graphql

The module uses nuxt-apollo for Graphql data fetching with auto refresh of access token. Please refer to docs for API usage and DX optimizations.

To use graphql subscription make sure to set:

• The module's auth mode to cookie
• WEBSOCKETS_ENABLED env variable to true
• WEBSOCKETS_GRAPHQL_ENABLED env variable to true

Auth

[!IMPORTANT]

• Directus and Nuxt apps should share the same domain name because cookies's sameSite policy is set to lax.
• Make sure to add NODE_OPTIONS=--dns-result-order=ipv4first env variable in order to resolve localhost domain on Node +v17.
• For SSO login with cookie mode please make sure to set AUTH_<PROVIDER>_MODE=cookie env variable on Directus +v10.10.

The module has useDirectusAuth composable for handling authentication.

• login login with email/password and redirect to login page
• logout logout, clear states and redirect to logout page
• fetchUser call to refetch and refresh user state
• loginWithProvider login with SSO provider and redirect to login page on success and callback page otherwise
• requestPasswordReset
• resetPassword

To implement a custom logic on user login/logout events, you can use directus:loggedIn hook

export default defineNuxtPlugin({
  enforce: "pre", // Should be registered before built-in `auth` plugin
  hooks: {
    "directus:loggedIn": (state) => {},
  },
});

For protecting page routes, 2 possible approachs can be used:

• Globally enable and locally disable

enableGlobalAuthMiddleware: true;

definePageMeta({ auth: false });

• Locally enable

definePageMeta({ middleware: "auth" }); // Redirects to login path when not loggedIn

definePageMeta({ middleware: "guest" }); // Redirects to home path when loggedIn

License

MIT License