Overengineering a Simple Blog? My Journey to the Nuxt + Cloudflare Stack

Let's be honest. In 2025, spinning up a personal blog shouldn't be hard. You have Medium, Substack, WordPress, Ghost—the list of platforms waiting to host your thoughts is endless. Choosing to build one from scratch using a modern JavaScript framework often feels like the definition of "overengineering."

So, why did I do it?

Why did I bypass the easy route and decide to construct this little corner of the internet using Nuxt.js and host it on Cloudflare Pages?

It wasn't just about chasing the newest shiny tools, though I admit that's always part of the fun. It was about finding a sweet spot between absolute control, developer experience (DX), and future-proof architecture. I wanted a setup that felt incredibly simple to write on today but had the latent horsepower to become a complex, dynamic application tomorrow without requiring a total rewrite.

Here is the reasoning behind my chosen stack.

The Joy of a Git-Centric Workflow

The primary requirement for this blog was that writing needed to feel frictionless. I didn't want to log into a WordPress dashboard, navigate a WYSIWYG editor, or deal with a slow database just to fix a typo.

I live in my code editor (VS Code) and my terminal. I wanted my content to live there too.

This led me straight to the Nuxt Content module. It fundamentally changes how you think about a CMS. Instead of a remote server storing my words in a MySQL database, my blog posts are simply Markdown files sitting in a content/ directory right next to my code.

When I want to write a new post, I create a file ending in .md. I write using standard Markdown syntax, add some YAML front-matter at the top for metadata like the title and date, and save it. That's it.

Git is my version control. When I commit that file and push it to GitHub, I'm not just saving code; I'm publishing content. The beauty of Nuxt Content is that during the build process, it acts as a Git-based headless CMS. It parses those Markdown files, turning them into a powerful, queryable JSON structure that my Vue components can consume easily. It's high-performance static site generation (SSG) driven by the tools I already use every day.

The Architecture: Where Nuxt Meets the Edge

Having markdown files is great, but they need to get onto the internet. This is where the combination of Nuxt and Cloudflare Pages, glued together by a brilliant tool called NuxtHub, really shines.

I needed a deployment pipeline that was as invisible as possible. I push code, and a minute later, the site is live globally.

Cloudflare Pages offers an incredible infrastructure for this. It doesn't just host static files in one location; it replicates your site across hundreds of data centers worldwide in seconds.

But the real magic happens with how Nuxt integrates with this infrastructure.

The Static-to-Edge Workflow

To visualize how this works, imagine a pipeline that transforms raw text into a globally distributed website without me ever touching a server.

Look at the diagram above. The process begins on my local machine. When I push my Markdown files to GitHub, it triggers a webhook. Cloudflare Pages notices this change and spins up a build environment.

Inside that environment, Nuxt takes over. It reads all my Markdown content and pre-renders every single page of the blog into static HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Once the build is complete, Cloudflare takes those static assets and pushes them to its "Edge Network." This means if you visit my blog from London, you get served files from a server in or near London, not one in Seattle. The result is blindingly fast load times and near-zero latency.

NuxtHub: The Secret Ingredient

You might wonder, if it's just static files, why use NuxtHub?

NuxtHub provides the "zero-config" experience for deploying Nuxt to Cloudflare. It handles the nitty-gritty details of the build presets. More importantly, it smooths out the CI/CD pipeline, ensuring that when I press push, the site builds correctly every single time without me needing to fiddle with complex YAML configurations in GitHub Actions. It just works.

Future-Proofing: The Dynamic Switch

The reasons above—Markdown and fast static hosting—are great, but they are achievable with other tools like Astro or Eleventy. The deciding factor for choosing Nuxt was what I might want to do next year.

Right now, this blog is totally static. But what if six months from now I want to add a dynamic photo gallery that pulls images from an API? What if I want a "projects" section where people can upvote their favorites? What if I need a lightweight backend database?

If I had chosen a strictly Static Site Generator, adding those dynamic features later would be painful. I'd have to glue on third-party services or rewrite significant portions of the codebase.

Nuxt is unique because it is a "hybrid" framework.

Today, I am running in nuxi generate mode, creating purely static files. But because my host is Cloudflare Pages, I am sitting on top of immense serverless power.

Thanks to Nuxt's architecture and the integration provided by NuxtHub, adding dynamic functionality is trivial. If I need a database, NuxtHub allows me to seamlessly bind Cloudflare D1 (their serverless SQL database) to my project.

When I need that dynamic functionality, I don't have to migrate my platform. I simply change a few lines of configuration to switch certain routes from static generation to Server-Side Rendering (SSR) on the Edge. My static blog instantly becomes a dynamic full-stack application running on Cloudflare Workers, with access to databases, key-value storage, and image optimization APIs.