Originally published at https://github.com/nuxt/framework/releases/tag/v3.0.0-rc.9

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Highlights

• ✅ app.config.ts with HMR and Reactivity support (see documentation and example)
• ✅ Vite-Node enabled by default (#6217)
• ✅ Updated to nitropack@0.5.x
• ⚠️ autoImports option and hooks is deprecated and renamed to imports (#6864) (#7158)
• ⚠️ Vue dependency is now externalized (#6868)
• ⚠️ Handle prerelease constraint (#7116)
  • 👉 If you see an error like Nuxt version ^3.0.0 is required but currently using 3.0.0-rc.9, please contact the module author.

Changelog

(all commits)

🚀 Enhancements

• webpack, vite: Default to .js extension for client (#6505)
• schema, vite: ⚠️ Enable vite-node by default (#6217)
• vite: Allow disabling entry warmup (#6647)
• nuxt: Exclude page chunks from being prefetched (#6662)
• cli: Auto cleanup with project manifest changes (#6672)
• nuxt: app.config with HMR and reactivity support (#6333)
• nuxt: Allow getRouteFromPath to use objects (#5900)
• nuxt: Add warning in dev mode if layouts/pages do not have a single root node (#5469)
• nuxt: Config options for default keepalive, page & layout transitions (#5859)
• nuxt: Allow programmatically prefetching global components (#6661)
• cli: Support mode flags for add command (#3921)
• nuxt: imports.autoImport option to disable auto-imports (#6768)
• nuxt: navigateTo supports external redirects (#5022)
• nuxt: app.config improvements (#6905)
• nuxt: Add setPageLayout utility (#6826, #7075)
• cli: Display nuxt and nitro versions for dev and build commands (#7118)
• kit, schema: Allow extending with theme config (#7131)
• nuxt: ⚠️ Rename autoImports to imports (#6864)
• kit, nuxt: Improve autoImports deprecation dx (#7158)
• nuxt: Pass and format vite-node build errors (#6683)

🔥 Performance

• nuxt: Tree-shake asyncData client logic from server (#7056)
• nuxt: Don't prefetch all global components (#7069)

🩹 Fixes

• nuxt: Remove stray commas in component templates (#6580)
• cli: Update server.port and server.host with listener info (#6595)
• nuxt: Add #components alias to tsconfig (#6634)
• vite: Pass relative url as default base (#6637)
• nuxt: Don't set asyncData to existing payload on CSR if initialCache is disabled (#6640)
• vite: Warmup server entries with ssr condition (#6649)
• nuxt: Include tag attrs for non self-closing tags in tree-shake regex (#6675)
• nuxt: Fallback to static error page on server error (#6697)
• cli: Ensure nuxi upgrade runs in rootDir (#6707)
• cli: Properly detect hash and tag for upgrade changelog (#6708)
• nuxt: Use vue-devtools-stub to mock @vue/devtools-api for both cjs + esm (#6713)
• nuxt: Pass params to client-only slot (#6584)
• vite: Improve vite-node module invalidation (#6736)
• vite: Dedupe vue in client bundle (#6735)
• nuxt: Ensure component helper methods do not create side-effects (#6789)
• nuxt: Use deep assignment for app.config hmr (#6788)
• nuxt: Throw hard error on initial spa load if aborted (#6857)
• nuxt: Pass analyze options through to nitro (#6871)
• cli: Build all types on typecheck command (#5437)
• nuxt: Lazy composables shouldn't block setup in ssr: false (#6901)
• vite: Remove client manifest.json from public dir (#7021)
• kit: Sort aliases before resolving (#7018)
• nuxt: Use shared state for asyncData (#7055)
• vite: Sanitize client asset chunk names (#7067)
• schema: Sync types of vite v3.x (#7104)
• kit: ⚠️ Handle prerelease constraint (#7116)

💅 Refactors

• nuxt: Enable strict type checking (#6368)
• vite: Enable strict type checking (#6616)
• nuxt, kit: Improve type strictness (#6685)
• Enable strict type checking everywhere (#6943)
• Apply lints from @nuxtjs/eslint-config-typescript v11 (#7114)
• nuxt: Remove unused meta:register hook (#7130)

📖 Documentation

• Ensure consistent casing of section headers (#6578)
• components: Use fallbackTag in ClientOnly examples (#6587)
• Global style imports example (#6490)
• composables: Add more examples for autoImports (#6615)
• server: Add nitro config and storage examples (#6507)
• data-fetching: Fix and simplify cookie proxy example (#5770)
• Tweaks for data fetching, server routes and composables (#6653)
• Update links to nitro.unjs.io (#6684)
• Make wording slightly clearer (#6740)
• Fix typo in defineEventHandler example (#6741)
• api: Add <NuxtWelcome /> component docs (#6745)
• Use updated h3 utils (#6818)
• api: Add missing kit utilities (#6841)
• plugins: Add note about composable usage (#6744)
• api: Add useNuxtApp composable (#6786)
• composables: Add nested and plugin injection examples (#6743)
• examples: Add jsx example (#6870)
• api: Add addRouteMiddleware util (#6894)
• Update stormkit link (3ee812939)
• Update link to pinia nuxt module (#6952)
• deploy: Update command for csr prerendering (#6966)
• api: Enhance abortNavigation util (#6936)
• api: Add defineNuxtRouteMiddleware util (#6933)
• api: Add definePageMeta util (#6931)
• Replace backtick with apostrophe (#7015)
• api: Fix the layout file extension in cli example (#7024)
• schema: Update prefix for runtime config env variables (#6999)
• Add information on how to use options api asyncData (#7019)
• Increment directory structure numbers (#7102)
• Add explanatory comment before universal router stubs (#7124)

🏡 Chore

• ci: Set timeout for each step (#6923)
• nuxt: Fix typo (#6971)
• Add dev:preview script for playground preview (#6961)
• repo: Remove backtick-type in bug issue-template (#7083)
• Bump rc version for edge versions (#7117)
• nuxt: Prevent error page rendering a null error (#7119)
• nuxt: Use latest nitropack-edge on release (#7036)

❤️ Contributors

• 4Kazelot
• Alex Kozack
• Alexander Lichter
• Angelo Schuler Piletti
• Anthony Fu
• Conrawl Rogers
• Damian Głowala
• Daniel Roe
• Harlan Wilton
• HomWang
• Ilya Artamonov
• Julien Huang
• Krutie Patel
• Lay
• Lexpeartha
• Louis Haftmann
• Mourad EL CADI
• Nils
• Ohb00
• Oumar Barry
• Pooya Parsa
• Qin Guan
• Richard Schloss
• Sébastien Chopin
• TheColaber
• Umut Aktaş
• Yaël Guilloux
• __Catalina