diff --git a/packages/nuxt3/src/app/pages/404.vue b/packages/nuxt3/src/app/pages/404.vue
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..da12ddee66
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/nuxt3/src/app/pages/404.vue
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+<template>
+  <div>
+    <!-- TODO: Move this page to @nuxt/nice -->
+    404 | Page Not Found
+  </div>
+</template>
diff --git a/packages/nuxt3/src/app/plugins/router/index.ts b/packages/nuxt3/src/app/plugins/router/index.ts
index 0815b3c2ca..81809a660f 100644
--- a/packages/nuxt3/src/app/plugins/router/index.ts
+++ b/packages/nuxt3/src/app/plugins/router/index.ts
@@ -13,11 +13,6 @@ import routes from '~build/routes'
 export default <Plugin> function router (nuxt) {
   const { app } = nuxt
 
-  // TODO: move this outside this plugin
-  if (!routes.length) {
-    return
-  }
-
   app.component('NuxtPage', NuxtPage)
   app.component('NuxtLink', RouterLink)
 
diff --git a/packages/nuxt3/src/builder/app.ts b/packages/nuxt3/src/builder/app.ts
index 3ffd7b3981..91e2612d9a 100644
--- a/packages/nuxt3/src/builder/app.ts
+++ b/packages/nuxt3/src/builder/app.ts
@@ -43,6 +43,16 @@ export async function createApp (
   if (app.pages) {
     app.routes.push(...(await resolvePagesRoutes(builder, app)))
   }
+  // Add 404 page is not added
+  const page404 = app.routes.find(route => route.name === '404')
+  if (!page404) {
+    app.routes.push({
+      name: '404',
+      path: '/:catchAll(.*)*',
+      file: resolve(nuxt.options.appDir, 'pages/404.vue'),
+      children: []
+    })
+  }
   // TODO: Hook to extend routes
   app.templates.routes = serializeRoutes(app.routes)
 
@@ -69,7 +79,7 @@ function formatRoute (route: NuxtRoute) {
     name: route.name,
     path: route.path,
     children: route.children.map(formatRoute),
-    // TODO: avoid exposing to prod
+    // TODO: avoid exposing to prod, using process.env.NODE_ENV ?
     __file: route.file,
     component: `{() => import('${route.file}' /* webpackChunkName: '${route.name}' */)}`
   }
diff --git a/packages/nuxt3/src/config/options.ts b/packages/nuxt3/src/config/options.ts
index 76906dfc89..f83586d6e7 100644
--- a/packages/nuxt3/src/config/options.ts
+++ b/packages/nuxt3/src/config/options.ts
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ function normalizeConfig (_options: CliConfiguration) {
 
   // Append ignorePrefix glob to ignore
   if (typeof options.ignorePrefix === 'string') {
-    options.ignore.push(`**/${options.ignorePrefix}*.*`)
+    options.ignore.push(`${options.ignorePrefix}*`)
   }
 
   // Compression middleware legacy