trpc-nuxt/docs/content/1.get-started/2.usage/2.recommended.md

---
title: Recommended
description: tRPC-Nuxt provides first class integration with tRPC.
---

# Recommended Usage

Recommended but not enforced file structure.

```graphql
.
├── server
│   ├── api
│   │   └── trpc
│   │       └── [trpc].ts  # <-- tRPC HTTP handler
│   │   └── [..]
│   ├── trpc
│   │   ├── routers
│   │   │   ├── index.ts  # <-- main app router
│   │   │   ├── todo.ts  # <-- sub routers
│   │   │   └── [..]
│   │   ├── context.ts   # <-- create app context
│   │   └── trpc.ts      # <-- procedure helpers
├── plugins
│   ├── client.ts  # <-- tRPC client plugin
└── [..]
```

## 1. Create a tRPC router

Initialize your tRPC backend using the `initTRPC` function and create your first router.

::code-group

```ts [server/trpc/trpc.ts]
/**
 * This is your entry point to setup the root configuration for tRPC on the server.
 * - `initTRPC` should only be used once per app.
 * - We export only the functionality that we use so we can enforce which base procedures should be used
 *
 * Learn how to create protected base procedures and other things below:
 * @see https://trpc.io/docs/v10/router
 * @see https://trpc.io/docs/v10/procedures
 */
import { initTRPC } from '@trpc/server'
import { Context } from '~/server/trpc/context'

const t = initTRPC.context<Context>().create()

/**
 * Unprotected procedure
 **/
export const publicProcedure = t.procedure;
export const router = t.router;
export const middleware = t.middleware;
```

```ts [server/trpc/routers/index.ts]
import { z } from 'zod'
import { publicProcedure, router } from '../trpc'

export const appRouter = router({
  hello: publicProcedure
    .input(
      z.object({
        text: z.string().nullish(),
      }),
    )
    .query(({ input }) => {
      return {
        greeting: `hello ${input?.text ?? 'world'}`,
      }
    }),
})

// export type definition of API
export type AppRouter = typeof appRouter
```

```ts [server/api/trpc/[trpc].ts]
import { createNuxtApiHandler } from 'trpc-nuxt'
import { appRouter } from '~/server/trpc/routers'
import { createContext } from '~/server/trpc/context'

// export API handler
export default createNuxtApiHandler({
  router: appRouter,
  createContext,
})
```

```ts [server/trpc/context.ts]
import { inferAsyncReturnType } from '@trpc/server'

/**
 * Creates context for an incoming request
 * @link https://trpc.io/docs/context
 */
export const createContext = () => ({})

export type Context = inferAsyncReturnType<typeof createContext>;
```

::

::alert{type=info}
If you need to split your router into several subrouters, you can implement them in the `server/trpc/routers` directory and import and [merge them](https://trpc.io/docs/v10/merging-routers) to a single root `appRouter`.
::

## 2. Create tRPC client plugin

Create a strongly-typed plugin using your API's type signature.

```ts [plugins/client.ts]
import { createTRPCNuxtClient, httpBatchLink } from 'trpc-nuxt/client'
import type { AppRouter } from '~/server/trpc/routers'

export default defineNuxtPlugin(() => {
  /**
   * createTRPCNuxtClient adds a `useQuery` composable
   * built on top of `useAsyncData`.
   */
  const client = createTRPCNuxtClient<AppRouter>({
    links: [
      httpBatchLink({
        url: '/api/trpc',
      }),
    ],
  })

  return {
    provide: {
      client,
    },
  }
})
```

## 3. Make an API request

```vue [pages/index.vue]
<script setup lang="ts">
const { $client } = useNuxtApp()

const hello = await $client.hello.useQuery({ text: 'client' })
</script>

<template>
  <div>
    <p>{{ hello.data?.greeting }}</p>
  </div>
</template>
```