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title: "NuxtApp"
description: "In Nuxt 3, you can access runtime app context within composables, components and plugins."
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In Nuxt 3, you can access runtime app context within composables, components and plugins.
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In Nuxt 2, this was referred to as **Nuxt context**.
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## Nuxt App Interface
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Jump over the `NuxtApp` interface documentation.
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## The Nuxt Context
Many composables and utilities, both built-in and user-made, may require access to the Nuxt instance. This doesn't exist everywhere on your application, because a fresh instance is created on every request.
Currently, the Nuxt context is only accessible in [plugins](/docs/guide/directory-structure/plugins), [Nuxt hooks](/docs/guide/going-further/hooks), [Nuxt middleware](/docs/guide/directory-structure/middleware), and [setup functions](https://vuejs.org/api/composition-api-setup.html) (in pages and components).
If a composable is called without access to the context, you may get an error stating that 'A composable that requires access to the Nuxt instance was called outside of a plugin, Nuxt hook, Nuxt middleware, or Vue setup function.' In that case, you can also explicitly call functions within this context by using [`nuxtApp.runWithContext`](/docs/api/composables/use-nuxt-app#runwithcontext).
## Accessing NuxtApp
Within composables, plugins and components you can access `nuxtApp` with [`useNuxtApp()`](/docs/api/composables/use-nuxt-app):
```ts [composables/useMyComposable.ts]
export function useMyComposable () {
const nuxtApp = useNuxtApp()
// access runtime nuxt app instance
}
```
If your composable does not always need `nuxtApp` or you simply want to check if it is present or not, since [`useNuxtApp`](/docs/api/composables/use-nuxt-app) throws an exception, you can use [`tryUseNuxtApp`](/docs/api/composables/use-nuxt-app#tryusenuxtapp) instead.
Plugins also receive `nuxtApp` as the first argument for convenience.
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## Providing Helpers
You can provide helpers to be usable across all composables and application. This usually happens within a Nuxt plugin.
```ts
const nuxtApp = useNuxtApp()
nuxtApp.provide('hello', (name) => `Hello ${name}!`)
console.log(nuxtApp.$hello('name')) // Prints "Hello name!"
```
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It is possible to inject helpers by returning an object with a `provide` key in plugins.
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In Nuxt 2 plugins, this was referred to as **inject function**.
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