diff --git a/src/runtime/newapp.ts b/src/runtime/newapp.ts
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--- a/src/runtime/newapp.ts
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@@ -1,141 +0,0 @@
-import {
-  App as H3App,
-  createApp,
-  createRouter,
-  eventHandler,
-  lazyEventHandler,
-  Router,
-  toNodeListener,
-  fetchWithEvent,
-} from "h3";
-import { createFetch, Headers } from "ofetch";
-import destr from "destr";
-import {
-  createCall,
-  createFetch as createLocalFetch,
-} from "unenv/runtime/fetch/index";
-import { createHooks, Hookable } from "hookable";
-import { useRuntimeConfig } from "./config";
-import { cachedEventHandler } from "./cache";
-import { createRouteRulesHandler, getRouteRulesForPath } from "./route-rules";
-import { plugins } from "#internal/nitro/virtual/plugins";
-import errorHandler from "#internal/nitro/virtual/error-handler";
-import { handlers } from "#internal/nitro/virtual/server-handlers";
-
-export interface NitroApp {
-  h3App: H3App;
-  router: Router;
-  formActionsRouter?: Router;
-  // TODO: Type hooks and allow extending
-  hooks: Hookable;
-  localCall: ReturnType<typeof createCall>;
-  localFetch: ReturnType<typeof createLocalFetch>;
-}
-
-function createNitroApp(): NitroApp {
-  const config = useRuntimeConfig();
-
-  const hooks = createHooks();
-
-  const h3App = createApp({
-    debug: destr(process.env.DEBUG),
-    onError: errorHandler,
-  });
-
-  const router = createRouter();
-  const formActionsRouter = createRouter();
-
-  h3App.use(createRouteRulesHandler());
-
-  // Create local fetch callers
-  const localCall = createCall(toNodeListener(h3App) as any);
-  const localFetch = createLocalFetch(localCall, globalThis.fetch);
-  const $fetch = createFetch({
-    fetch: localFetch,
-    Headers,
-    defaults: { baseURL: config.app.baseURL },
-  });
-  // @ts-ignore
-  globalThis.$fetch = $fetch;
-
-  // A generic event handler give nitro acess to the requests
-  h3App.use(
-    eventHandler((event) => {
-      // Init nitro context
-      event.context.nitro = event.context.nitro || {};
-      // Support platform context provided by local fetch
-      const envContext = (event.node.req as any).__unenv__;
-      if (envContext) {
-        Object.assign(event.context, envContext);
-      }
-      // Assign bound fetch to context
-      event.fetch = (req, init) =>
-        fetchWithEvent(event, req as any, init, { fetch: localFetch });
-      event.$fetch = (req, init) =>
-        fetchWithEvent(event, req as any, init, { fetch: $fetch });
-    })
-  );
-
-  const renderer = handlers.find(({ route }) => route === "/**");
-  const rendererHandler = lazyEventHandler(renderer.handler);
-
-  const regularHandlers = handlers.filter((h) => !h.formAction);
-  const formActionsHandlers = handlers.filter((h) => h.formAction);
-
-  for (const h of formActionsHandlers) {
-    let handler = h.lazy ? lazyEventHandler(h.handler) : h.handler;
-    const routeRules = getRouteRulesForPath(h.route.replace(/:\w+|\*\*/g, "_"));
-    if (routeRules.cache) {
-      handler = cachedEventHandler(handler, {
-        group: "nitro/routes",
-        ...routeRules.cache,
-      });
-    }
-    formActionsRouter.use(h.route, handler, "post");
-    formActionsRouter.use(h.route, rendererHandler, "get");
-  }
-
-  for (const h of regularHandlers) {
-    let handler = h.lazy ? lazyEventHandler(h.handler) : h.handler;
-    if (h.middleware || !h.route) {
-      const middlewareBase = (config.app.baseURL + (h.route || "/")).replace(
-        /\/+/g,
-        "/"
-      );
-      h3App.use(middlewareBase, handler);
-    } else {
-      const routeRules = getRouteRulesForPath(
-        h.route.replace(/:\w+|\*\*/g, "_")
-      );
-      if (routeRules.cache) {
-        handler = cachedEventHandler(handler, {
-          group: "nitro/routes",
-          ...routeRules.cache,
-        });
-      }
-      router.use(h.route, handler, h.method);
-    }
-  }
-
-  h3App.use(config.app.baseURL, formActionsRouter);
-  h3App.use(config.app.baseURL, router);
-
-  const app: NitroApp = {
-    hooks,
-    h3App,
-    router,
-    formActionsRouter,
-    localCall,
-    localFetch,
-  };
-
-  for (const plugin of plugins) {
-    plugin(app);
-  }
-
-  return app;
-}
-
-export const nitroApp: NitroApp = createNitroApp();
-
-export const useNitroApp = () => nitroApp;