feat(nuxt): app.config with hmr and reactivity support

[pi0]

🔗 Linked issue

Closesnuxt/nuxt#14330

❓ Type of change

• 📖 Documentation (updates to the documentation or readme)
• 🐞 Bug fix (a non-breaking change that fixes an issue)
• 👌 Enhancement (improving an existing functionality like performance)
• ✨ New feature (a non-breaking change that adds functionality)
• ⚠️ Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)

📚 Description

This PR adds support for (multi layer) app.config file with true HMR support and reactivity/editable on both client and server side.

A diversion from the original proposal is that I've decided to keep it separated from runtimeConfig at least for now since runtime config is globally frozen on server side and injection method of appConfig is foundomantelay different (bundler vs nitro-provided). This means appConfig and runtimeConfig.app are not the same.

Playground is edited to try new feature.

TODO:

• Working Vite HMR (*)
• Test Webpack HMR
• Test deep assign (seems not required)
• appConfig in nuxt.config for type support and easy module integration
• Programmatic way to add additional app.config files (possible by modifying appConfig or app:resolve hook)
• Add tests
• Inject $appConfig (A plugin can easily inject reactive shortcut. Delegating addition to next steps)
• Infer types from app.config for useAppConfig()
• Add docs (API, Guide and File)
• Add module author guide (adding after trying on edge

(*) When testing, I've found that virtual files do not support HMR

📝 Checklist

• I have linked an issue or discussion.
• I have updated the documentation accordingly.

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[atinux]

It would be nice to also test it in https://github.com/nuxt/framework/tree/main/examples/advanced/config-extends to check the multi layer support.

[pi0]

@atinux It is supported by default (main layer is part of other layers :))

[pi0]

HMR seems unstable with vite-node but is probably not directly related to this PR. We can test better on edge.