Alpine Starter

Alpine Starter is a Nuxt 3 starter template for the Alpine blog theme, giving you a minimal, customizable foundation for building a blog site.

What is Alpine Starter?

Alpine Starter is a starter template that scaffolds a new Nuxt 3 project from the Alpine theme using the Nuxt CLI. It takes the theme's source files and produces a complete application you can run locally, build for edge-side rendering, or generate as a static site. The template is hosted in the Nuxt themes ecosystem and its details are available on the Alpine theme page at alpine.nuxt.space.

Key Features

• Nuxt 3 framework — Built on Nuxt 3, Vue's meta-framework, with support for both static generation and server-side rendering.
• Edge Side Rendering — Deploy to Vercel Functions, Netlify Functions, AWS, and most Node-compatible environments using Nuxt's preset system.
• Static Generation — Run pnpm generate to produce HTML files in .output/public for any static hosting.
• Minimal design — The repository's minimal topic points to a clean, content-focused layout.
• Blog-ready — The blog-theme topic indicates the template includes the structure needed for a blog.
• Customizable — The customizable topic signals that the theme can be adapted to your own branding and layout needs.
• Nuxt Studio support — The studio topic indicates compatibility with Nuxt Studio for visual editing.
• pnpm-based workflow — All commands use pnpm, from install (pnpm install) to development (pnpm dev), build (pnpm build), static generation (pnpm generate), and preview (pnpm preview).

Who is it for?

• Bloggers — Use this starter to quickly spin up a minimal personal blog with Nuxt 3, then write content in Markdown.
• Nuxt developers — Use it as a base to customize the Alpine theme for a client project or to learn how Nuxt themes work.
• Developers building edge-rendered sites — Deploy to Vercel or Netlify functions for server-rendered pages using the included presets.

Use cases

• Start a new blog — Run npx nuxi init -t themes/alpine to scaffold a project, then pnpm install to get dependencies.
• Deploy as an edge-rendered app — Build with pnpm build and deploy to Vercel or Netlify when you need server-side rendering.
• Ship a static site — Use pnpm generate to output static HTML to .output/public and host anywhere.

How does Alpine Starter work?

The starter is cloned via the Nuxt CLI: npx nuxi init -t themes/alpine creates a new project from the theme template. After installing dependencies with pnpm install, you can run pnpm dev for local development. For production, pnpm build creates an edge-rendered build using the configured preset, while pnpm generate outputs static HTML.