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5-16 Understanding Nitro and h3

In this lesson, we take a closer look at Nitro and h3, both projects maintained by the Nuxt Labs team.

Nitro is the universal backend that powers a lot of the magic in Nuxt. You can think of it as everything except for the rendering layer of your application (everything except for Vue).

h3 is the HTTP framework that powers Nitro. Nitro layers on file-based routing, asset handling, storage abstraction, and many more features to turn it into a very powerful framework.

Both of these tools are under the unjs project, a collection of Javascript tools.

Nitro: https://nitro.unjs.io/

h3: https://github.com/unjs/h3

unjs: https://unjs.io/