In a built Nuxt 3 application, there is no runtime Nuxt dependency. That means your site will be highly performant, and ultra-slim. But it also means you can no longer hook into runtime Nuxt server hooks.
Read more about the Nitro server engine.
render
key in your nuxt.config
.~/server/api
and ~/server/middleware
will be automatically registered; you can remove them from your serverMiddleware
array.serverMiddleware
array to point to files or npm packages directly, rather than using inline functions.server:
or vue-renderer:
you will need to remove these and wait for nitropack support for runtime hooks and plugins.