This is an example of how to manipulate (import and use) JSON files with Nuxt 3’s server/api. The following article was used as a reference.

https://github.com/nuxt/framework/discussions/775#discussioncomment-1470136

While there is much room for improvement in areas such as type definitions, the following approach was confirmed to work.

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With the above, by using a query like /api/items?page=2&size=40, it was possible to return a portion of the imported JSON file (~/assets/index.json). Paths other than assets seem to work as well, but this has not been thoroughly verified.

While there is much room for improvement, we hope this serves as a useful reference.

References

https://v3.nuxtjs.org/guide/directory-structure/server/#handling-requests-with-query-parameters