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