Running 'app:created' nuxt hook before middleware

[hipkiss1991]

Versions:

"nuxt": "^3.7.4",
"@pinia/nuxt": "^0.4.1",

Situation:
The project I'm working on is using nuxtApp.hook('app:created' in a plugin to setup / initialise the pinia stores / initial data. This includes pinia store setup and a couple of API calls for user data.
When doing so, I am seeing that the middleware always runs before this lifecycle hook.
This is not a global middleware.

Question
How do I get the middleware to run after the plugin hook has finished.

Tried

• Stand alone middleware file
• page level inline middleware (defining the middleware function here instead of just referencing the file)
• tried defining the middleware in the plugin file, along side the nuxt hook
• Used the nuxtApp.$pinia pass through to try and force the correct pinia store state.
• I've tried adding client, hydration, rendering checks in the middleware but it still runs first.
• Combinations of all the above
• Hook plugin is named as 01.setup.js so its the first file in the plugins dir
• middleware is named as zzz.js so its the last file in the middleware dir
• Moved the store init and data fetches to just the plugin itself, instead of inside the hook and still didnt work.

Potential solutions

• I could add the necessary API calls to the middleware but I think this is a really bad idea. This kind of data should only be initialised once, not every transition to this particular path.

export default defineNuxtPlugin((nuxtApp) => {
  const authStore = useAuthStore();

  nuxtApp.hook('app:created', async() => {
    await authStore.init();
    await authStore.getUser();
  });
});

export default defineNuxtRouteMiddleware(async(to, from) => {
  const nuxtApp = useNuxtApp();
  const authStore = await useAuthStore(nuxtApp.$pinia);
  const {
    isUserLogged,
  } = storeToRefs(authStore);

  if (!isUserLogged.value) {
    return navigateTo('/');
  }
});