diff --git a/packages/vite/src/vite-node.ts b/packages/vite/src/vite-node.ts
index ee29478ea1..28c9e04bbd 100644
--- a/packages/vite/src/vite-node.ts
+++ b/packages/vite/src/vite-node.ts
@@ -6,9 +6,8 @@ import { isAbsolute, join, normalize, resolve } from 'pathe'
 // import { addDevServerHandler } from '@nuxt/kit'
 import { isFileServingAllowed } from 'vite'
 import type { ModuleNode, Plugin as VitePlugin } from 'vite'
-import { getQuery, withTrailingSlash } from 'ufo'
+import { getQuery } from 'ufo'
 import { normalizeViteManifest } from 'vue-bundle-renderer'
-import escapeStringRegexp from 'escape-string-regexp'
 import { distDir } from './dirs'
 import type { ViteBuildContext } from './vite'
 import { isCSS } from './utils'
@@ -120,10 +119,6 @@ function createViteNodeApp (ctx: ViteBuildContext, invalidates: Set<string> = ne
           /^#/,
           /\?/,
         ],
-        external: [
-          '#shared',
-          new RegExp('^' + escapeStringRegexp(withTrailingSlash(resolve(ctx.nuxt.options.rootDir, ctx.nuxt.options.dir.shared)))),
-        ],
       },
       transformMode: {
         ssr: [/.*/],