Differences of 'Nuxtjs SPA mode' and 'Vuejs without Nuxtjs'

SSR is only one advantage for me when using Nuxt.

There are still a few things left when you use Nuxt in SPA mode:

• You don't have to care about routing just create components in pages folder
• Easier way of loading data into your components with asyncData or fetch methods
• Easy setup of Vuex including automatically namespaced store modules

In general it provides a more structured way of developing Vue.js applications.

Nuxt can be used univeral apps (SSR), static generated apps, and single-page apps.

As mentioned above, Nuxt comes built in with all sorts of benefits, such as Vuex, Vue Meta, and Vue Router. It also scaffolds your file structure and allows you to easily configure your project with modules and plugins in the nuxt config file. For SPA's, there's also the option of using Nuxt as a middleware.

https://nuxtjs.org/guide/

Nuxt js is going to have basic advantages over vuejs as it is a framework which is build using vuejs where Vue.js is an open-source model–view–viewmodel JavaScript framework for building user interfaces and single-page applications only.

Nuxt.js is a frontend framework built upon Vue.js that offers great development features such as server side rendering, automatically generated routes, improved meta tags managing and SEO improvement.

Basic difference can be:

1. Nuxt js created routes for you by itself, just create component inside the pages folder and you're done. This automation of declaring routes can be done in vuejs as well but definitely you are required to code for that.

2. Structured Project: One of the biggest drawback (you can say that), of vuejs is that, it is not having any standardized folder structure which nuxtjs defines.

3. Easily set up transitions between your routes (declare the css in the main.css file present in the assets folder).

4. Easy setup of Vuex.