The srcDir option

The srcDir option is used to define the source directory of your Nuxt app. The default value of srcDir is the value of rootDir. You can change it as follows:

// nuxt.config.js
export default {
  srcDir: 'src/'
}

Now, your app structure has become the following:

-| my-project/
---| node_modules/
---| src/
------| pages/
------| components/
------| ...
---| nuxt.config.js
---| package.json

Note that the Nuxt config file is outside the /src/ directory. 

You can find an example app for this option in /chapter-2/configuration/srcDir/ in our GitHub repository.