Even though server-side rendering is the main feature of Nuxt, it is also a static site generator that pre-renders your Nuxt app in a static site, as shown in the example provided for the static-generated app category. It is perhaps the best of both worlds between a traditional single-page application and a server-side-rendered app. While benefiting from the static HTML content for a better SEO, you no longer need the runtime support from Node.js and Nuxt. However, your app will still behave like an SPA.
What's more is that during static generation, Nuxt has a crawler that crawls the links in your app to generate dynamic routes and save their data from the remote API as payload.js files in a /static/ folder inside the /dist/ folder. These payloads are then used to serve the data that was originally requested from the API. This means you are not calling the API anymore. This can secure your API from the public, and possibly from attackers.
You'll learn how to generate static sites from Nuxt with a remote API in Chapter 14, Using Linters, Formatters, and Deployment Commands, and in the final chapter of this book, Chapter 18, Creating a Nuxt App with CMS and GraphQL.
