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

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Usage	tRPC-Nuxt provides first class integration with tRPC.

Usage

Recommended file structure

Recommended but not enforced file structure. This is what you get when starting from the examples.

.
├── 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 as a plugin
└── [..]

1. Create a tRPC router

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

::code-group

import { initTRPC } from '@trpc/server'

// Avoid exporting the entire t-object since it's not very
// descriptive and can be confusing to newcomers used to t
// meaning translation in i18n libraries.
const t = initTRPC.create()

// Base router and procedure helpers
export const router = t.router
export const publicProcedure = t.procedure

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

import { createNuxtApiHandler } from 'trpc-nuxt'
import { appRouter } from '@/server/trpc/routers'

// export API handler
export default createNuxtApiHandler({
  router: appRouter,
  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 to a single root appRouter. ::

2. Create tRPC client plugin

Create a set of strongly-typed composables using your API's type signature.

import { httpBatchLink } from '@trpc/client'
import { createTRPCNuxtProxyClient } from 'trpc-nuxt/client'
import type { AppRouter } from '@/server/trpc/routers'

export default defineNuxtPlugin(() => {
  const client = createTRPCNuxtProxyClient<AppRouter>({
    links: [
      httpBatchLink({
        /**
         * If you want to use SSR, you need to use the server's full URL
         * @link https://trpc.io/docs/ssr
         **/
        url: 'http://localhost:3000/api/trpc',
      }),
    ],
  })

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

3. Make API requests

<script setup lang="ts">
const { $client } = useNuxtApp()

// query and mutate uses useAsyncData under the hood
const { data, pending, error } = await $client.hello.query({ text: 'client' })
</script>

<template>
  <div v-if="pending">
    Loading...
  </div>
  <div v-else-if="error?.data?.code">
    Error: {{ error.data.code }}
  </div>
  <div v-else>
    <p>{{ hello.data?.greeting }}</p>
  </div>
</template>