---
title: Using Nuxt
description: Easily use Bamboo with Nuxt with the vue integration.
---

## Start a new project

<Steps>

### Create Nuxt project

To get started, we will need to create a new Nuxt project using npx.

<Tabs items={['npx', 'pnpm', 'bun']}>
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  <Tab>
    ```bash
    npx nuxi@latest init test-app
    ```
  </Tab>
  <Tab>
    ```bash
    pnpm dlx nuxi@latest init test-app
    ```
  </Tab>
  <Tab>
    ```bash
    bunx nuxi@latest init test-app
    ```
  </Tab>
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</Tabs>

Enter the newly created directory and install the dependencies.

<Tabs items={['pnpm', 'npm', 'yarn', 'bun']}>
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  <Tab>
    ```bash
    cd test-app
    pnpm install
    ```
  </Tab>
  <Tab>
    ```bash
    cd test-app
    npm install
    ```
  </Tab>
  <Tab>
    ```bash
    cd test-app
    yarn install
    ```
  </Tab>
  <Tab>
    ```bash
    cd test-app
    bun install
    ```
  </Tab>
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</Tabs>

### Install Bamboo

Install bamboo and create your `bamboo.config.ts` file.

<Tabs items={['pnpm', 'npm', 'yarn', 'bun']}>
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  <Tab>
    ```bash
    pnpm install -D @bamboocss/dev
    pnpm bamboo init
    ```
  </Tab>
  <Tab>
    ```bash
    npm install -D @bamboocss/dev
    npx bamboo init
    ```
  </Tab>
  <Tab>
    ```bash
    yarn add -D @bamboocss/dev
    yarn bamboo init
    ```
  </Tab>
  <Tab>
    ```bash
    bun add -D @bamboocss/dev
    bun bamboo init
    ```
  </Tab>
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</Tabs>

### Update package.json scripts

Add `"prepare": "bamboo codegen"` to `scripts`. It runs [codegen](/docs/references/cli#codegen) after every dependency
install, so the output directory can stay in `.gitignore`.

### Configure the content

Make sure that all of the paths of your Vue components are included in the `include` section of the `bamboo.config.ts`
file.

```js {8,17} filename="bamboo.config.ts"
import { defineConfig } from '@bamboocss/dev'

export default defineConfig({
  // Whether to use css reset
  preflight: true,

  // Where to look for your css declarations
  include: ['./app.vue', './components/**/*.{js,jsx,ts,tsx,vue}', './pages/**/*.{js,jsx,ts,tsx,vue}'],

  // Files to exclude
  exclude: [],

  // The output directory for your css system
  outdir: 'styled-system',
})
```

### Configure the entry CSS with layers

Add this code to an `assets/main.css` file.

```css filename="assets/main.css"
@layer reset, base, tokens, recipes, utilities;
```

### Configure Nuxt

Register the entry CSS and the PostCSS plugin in `nuxt.config.ts`.

```js {3-6} filename="nuxt.config.ts"
export default defineNuxtConfig({
  css: ['~/assets/main.css'],

  postcss: {
    plugins: {
      '@bamboocss/dev/postcss': {},
    },
  },
})
```

Import `styled-system` with a relative path from your components — no alias is needed.

## Start your build process

Start the dev server with `pnpm dev`.

### Start using Bamboo

```xml filename="components/Demo.vue"
<script setup lang="ts">
import { css } from "../styled-system/css";
</script>

<template>
  <div :class="css({ fontSize: '5xl', fontWeight: 'bold' })">Hello 🎋!</div>
</template>
```

</Steps>
