How to force Nuxt app to rerender its data on production

Question

I'm using Nuxt 2.15 with target: "static" and hosting on a shared hosting "hostinger". I fetch the data from an external API using axios and Vuex state management and here comes the problem where the app doesn't load the new data it gets from the API.

How can I make the app rerenders its data and output the newly updated data it gets from fetching the API?

Answer 1

I assume you are using nuxtServerInit or asyncData for getting the data from API. This used with static mode means that data is get only during generation. Which is great for not too often updated content because it doesn't have to connect to server every time it's faster.

Depend on your needs you can:

1. Get data from API in mounted() hook this will get data from API every time the page is loaded BUT it also means that it could be loaded with some delay and it probably wouldn't be indexed by search engines
2. You can go with universal mode (https://nuxtjs.org/docs/configuration-glossary/configuration-mode/) and start your site on node.js server which will use up-to-date data from API each time user will open your site.

EDIT: as @kissu corrected me in comment this one is deprecated, please use this one: target:'server' instead of target:'static', which is default so you can just remove this line (https://nuxtjs.org/docs/configuration-glossary/configuration-target/ )