Installation - Nuxt

Before you start, create a project in the DockRay panel. Its settings hold the project token - the public identifier that goes into the ingest URL - and the API keys tab is where you generate a private key. The key is shown once, when it is generated: DockRay stores only its hash. If you do not have a project yet, start with Getting Started.

Requirements

• Nuxt 3 or 4,
• Node.js 18 or newer,
• npm.

Installing the module

npm install @dockcodes/dock-ray-nuxt

Registration and credentials

In nuxt.config.ts:

export default defineNuxtConfig({
    modules: ['@dockcodes/dock-ray-nuxt'],

    ray: {
        tracesSampleRate: 0.2,
        browser: { enabled: false },
    },
});

In the environment:

NUXT_RAY_TOKEN=project-token
NUXT_RAY_PRIVATE_KEY=project-private-key

Nuxt maps NUXT_RAY_* variables onto runtimeConfig.ray on its own - that is its own built-in convention, and it keeps credentials out of nuxt.config.ts and out of git. The module keeps them only in the private half of the runtime config: anything under runtimeConfig.public gets serialised into the client bundle, and a project key there would be a published key. Without a token and a key the module loads and sends nothing.

What the module registers on its own

Adding the module to modules is enough for server error and transaction reporting - it wires a Nitro plugin at application start on its own, with no extra file on your side. Collecting Vue and browser JavaScript errors is a separate, deliberate opt-in (browser.enabled) covered in the configuration article - by default the module only deals with what happens on the server.

The first test

Add a temporary server route, for example server/api/ray-test.ts:

export default defineEventHandler(() => {
    throw createError({ statusCode: 500, statusMessage: 'DockRay control error' });
});

Visit it once and remove it right after the test succeeds - it is a real 500, so further calls eat into the monthly quota. The entry should appear in the panel under Errors for the project the token points at.