Getting Started

Installation

Nuxt DevTools is shipped with Nuxt. To enable it, set devtools to true in your nuxt.config:

export default defineNuxtConfig({
  devtools: { enabled: true },
})

Open the DevTools Panel

Restart your Nuxt server and open your app in browser. Click the Vite DevTools trigger at the bottom of the page (or press SHIFT + ALT / ⇧ SHIFT + ⌥ OPTION + D) to toggle the DevTools. The first time, Vite DevTools asks you to authorize the browser with the code printed in your terminal.

Nuxt 4

Nuxt 5 ships with Nuxt DevTools v4. Nuxt 4.5+ still bundles v3; override it to ^4.0.0 with your package manager as described in Upgrading to v4. Nuxt 4.0–4.4 ship Vite 7 and cannot run v4.

Nightly Release Channel

Similar to Nuxt's Nightly Channel, DevTools also offers a nightly release channel, that automatically releases for every commit to main branch.

You can opt-in to the nightly release channel by using package manager resolutions:

{
  "overrides": {
    "@nuxt/devtools": "npm:@nuxt/devtools-nightly@latest"
  }
}

{
  "resolutions": {
    "@nuxt/devtools": "npm:@nuxt/devtools-nightly@latest"
  }
}

{
  "pnpm": {
    "overrides": {
      "@nuxt/devtools": "npm:@nuxt/devtools-nightly@latest"
    }
  }
}

Remove lockfile (package-lock.json, yarn.lock, or pnpm-lock.yaml) and reinstall dependencies.

Module Options

To configure Nuxt DevTools, you can pass the devtools options.

export default defineNuxtConfig({
  devtools: {
    // Enable devtools (default: true)
    enabled: true,
    // Coder code-server options (enabled by default)
    codeServer: {},
    // ...other options
  }
})

For all options available, please refer to TSDocs in your IDE, or the type definition file.