Generating Sitemaps, Canonicals and OG Images Dynamically in Nuxt

The author argues that many SEO issues on Nuxt projects come from infrastructure rather than content, such as build-time sitemaps that go stale, canonical tags that multiply across query-string variants, and OG image URLs that return HTML 404 pages. The recommended approach is to produce all three from the backend's database at request time, with caching. The guide describes serving sitemap.xml from a Nitro server route tied to an API, setting a single normalised canonical per page with useHead, and serving OG images from a cached endpoint that returns image/png. The author supports this with curl output from GitHub and Nuxt's own documentation site, noting that correct status codes, content types and explicit cache policies are the key signals to copy. A comparison table weighs static files, build-time generation, Nuxt SEO modules and custom Nitro routes by freshness, scalability and operational effort.
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