Remove window.__NUXT__

[manniL]

Describe the feature

Apparently it only exists for backwards-compat according to code comments:

nuxt/packages/nuxt/src/app/plugins/revive-payload.client.ts

Lines 52 to 53 in 648ef06

	// For backwards compatibility - TODO: remove later
	window.__NUXT__ = nuxtApp.payload

Nuxt v4 might be a good point to remove it if that's the case.

PR: #19205

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[martinszeltins]

I'm not familiar with internal Nuxt codebase but as a user of Nuxt, I kind of enjoy using window.__NUXT__ to access data when Vue devtools are not available. I often look at pinia store through window.__NUXT__.pinia. And even cooler is that it is also available on prod which makes debugging really pleasant.

[manniL]

@martinszeltins you can use window.useNuxtApp in Nuxt 3 for that 😋
Here is a link to the PR introducing it and to a video about it I made

[martinszeltins]

@martinszeltins you can use window.useNuxtApp in Nuxt 3 for that 😋 Here is a link to the PR introducing it and to a video about it I made

Ah, I wasn't aware of window.useNuxtApp, I guess in that case window.__NUXT__ is indeed not needed anymore.