diff --git a/packages/kit/src/types/components.ts b/packages/kit/src/types/components.ts
index ac3fbf0c47..d3584241bd 100644
--- a/packages/kit/src/types/components.ts
+++ b/packages/kit/src/types/components.ts
@@ -8,14 +8,13 @@ export interface Component {
   level: number
   prefetch: boolean
   preload: boolean
+  global?: boolean
 
   /** @deprecated */
   import?: string
   /** @deprecated */
   asyncImport?: string
   /** @deprecated */
-  global?: boolean
-  /** @deprecated */
   async?: boolean
 }
 
@@ -62,8 +61,11 @@ export interface ScanDir {
 
   extendComponent?: (component: Component) => Promise<Component | void> | (Component | void)
 
-  /** @deprecated */
-  global?: boolean | 'dev'
+  /**
+   * If enabled, registers components to be globally available
+   *
+   */
+  global?: boolean
 }
 
 export interface ComponentsDir extends ScanDir {
diff --git a/packages/nuxt3/src/components/module.ts b/packages/nuxt3/src/components/module.ts
index a7f4295483..d4676bd23a 100644
--- a/packages/nuxt3/src/components/module.ts
+++ b/packages/nuxt3/src/components/module.ts
@@ -93,10 +93,8 @@ export default defineNuxtModule({
       }
     })
 
-    if (!nuxt.options.dev) {
-      const options = { getComponents: () => components }
-      addWebpackPlugin(loaderPlugin.webpack(options))
-      addVitePlugin(loaderPlugin.vite(options))
-    }
+    const loaderOptions = { getComponents: () => components }
+    addWebpackPlugin(loaderPlugin.webpack(loaderOptions))
+    addVitePlugin(loaderPlugin.vite(loaderOptions))
   }
 })
diff --git a/packages/nuxt3/src/components/scan.ts b/packages/nuxt3/src/components/scan.ts
index 0cea532fa1..23988911ce 100644
--- a/packages/nuxt3/src/components/scan.ts
+++ b/packages/nuxt3/src/components/scan.ts
@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ export async function scanComponents (dirs: ScanDir[], srcDir: string): Promise<
   const filePaths = new Set<string>()
   const scannedPaths: string[] = []
 
-  for (const { path, pattern, ignore = [], prefix, extendComponent, pathPrefix, level, prefetch = false, preload = false } of dirs.sort(sortDirsByPathLength)) {
+  for (const dir of dirs.sort(sortDirsByPathLength)) {
     const resolvedNames = new Map<string, string>()
 
-    for (const _file of await globby(pattern!, { cwd: path, ignore })) {
-      const filePath = join(path, _file)
+    for (const _file of await globby(dir.pattern!, { cwd: dir.path, ignore: dir.ignore })) {
+      const filePath = join(dir.path, _file)
 
       if (scannedPaths.find(d => filePath.startsWith(d))) {
         continue
@@ -33,12 +33,12 @@ export async function scanComponents (dirs: ScanDir[], srcDir: string): Promise<
 
       // Resolve componentName
       const prefixParts = ([] as string[]).concat(
-        prefix ? splitByCase(prefix) : [],
-        (pathPrefix !== false) ? splitByCase(relative(path, dirname(filePath))) : []
+        dir.prefix ? splitByCase(dir.prefix) : [],
+        (dir.pathPrefix !== false) ? splitByCase(relative(dir.path, dirname(filePath))) : []
       )
       let fileName = basename(filePath, extname(filePath))
       if (fileName.toLowerCase() === 'index') {
-        fileName = pathPrefix === false ? basename(dirname(filePath)) : '' /* inherits from path */
+        fileName = dir.pathPrefix === false ? basename(dirname(filePath)) : '' /* inherits from path */
       }
       const fileNameParts = splitByCase(fileName)
 
@@ -74,14 +74,14 @@ export async function scanComponents (dirs: ScanDir[], srcDir: string): Promise<
         chunkName,
         shortPath,
         export: 'default',
-        global: Boolean(global),
-        level: Number(level),
-        prefetch: Boolean(prefetch),
-        preload: Boolean(preload)
+        global: dir.global,
+        level: Number(dir.level),
+        prefetch: Boolean(dir.prefetch),
+        preload: Boolean(dir.preload)
       }
 
-      if (typeof extendComponent === 'function') {
-        component = (await extendComponent(component)) || component
+      if (typeof dir.extendComponent === 'function') {
+        component = (await dir.extendComponent(component)) || component
       }
 
       // Check if component is already defined, used to overwite if level is inferiour
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ export async function scanComponents (dirs: ScanDir[], srcDir: string): Promise<
       }
     }
 
-    scannedPaths.push(path)
+    scannedPaths.push(dir.path)
   }
 
   return components
diff --git a/packages/nuxt3/src/components/templates.ts b/packages/nuxt3/src/components/templates.ts
index eb2af0af76..f19b5356be 100644
--- a/packages/nuxt3/src/components/templates.ts
+++ b/packages/nuxt3/src/components/templates.ts
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ export const componentsTemplate = {
     return `import { defineAsyncComponent } from 'vue'
 
 const components = {
-${options.components.map((c) => {
+${options.components.filter(c => c.global !== false).map((c) => {
   const exp = c.export === 'default' ? 'c.default || c' : `c['${c.export}']`
   const magicComments = createImportMagicComments(c)