Need a complete Sitemap solution? Check out Nuxt Simple Sitemap, it integrates with Nuxt Content's document-driven mode and frontmatter.

Otherwise, feel free to implement your own with the below guide.

Add dependencies

This can be created by utilising the sitemap library, which can be installed as follows:

pnpm add sitemap

Server Route

We will be utilising the server routes available within Nuxt, and to do so you'll need to create the server/ directory within your website's root directly.

Once this is done, create a routes/ directory inside this, and add a sitemap.xml.ts file, this will translate to /sitemap.xml.

You'll need to add the following:

import { serverQueryContent } from '#content/server'
import { SitemapStream, streamToPromise } from 'sitemap'

export default defineEventHandler(async (event) => {
  // Fetch all documents
  const docs = await serverQueryContent(event).find()
  const sitemap = new SitemapStream({
    hostname: 'https://example.com'
  })

  for (const doc of docs) {
    sitemap.write({
      url: doc._path,
      changefreq: 'monthly'
    })
  }
  sitemap.end()

  return streamToPromise(sitemap)
})

Now, once users go to https://example.com/sitemap.xml, you'll find the generated XML file with all your pages.

When using nuxt generate, you may want to pre-render the sitemap since the server route won't be able to run on a static hosting.

You can do this using the nitro.prerender option in your nuxt.config:

export default defineNuxtConfig({
  // ...
  nitro: {
    prerender: {
      routes: ['/sitemap.xml']
    }
  }
})