As others pointed out nuxt can be very restrictive when you're trying to build something that doesn't fit their mould. What I end up using is vanilla vue.js and

As others pointed out nuxt can be very restrictive when you're trying to build something that doesn't fit their mould. What I end up using is vanilla vue.js and a cli plugin to statically generate the pages that need to be SEO friendly during build. Best of both worlds.