State marked with skipHydrate should not be included in the Nuxt payload

[kabalage]

What problem is this solving

I expected that skipHydrate would also leave the ref out of the Nuxt payload. Nuxt throws errors when it cannot serialize certain objects. I could keep unserializable stuff out of the pinia stores, but I don't like the idea of introducing multiple solutions for shared state. I would much prefer to use Pinia for all shared state.

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Proposed solution

Make skipHydrate also skip transferring of values to the nuxt payload.

Describe alternatives you've considered

No response

[posva]

This should be doable with a payload plugin that turns marked properties into into undefined or any other value

[posva]

BTW, you can (and should)use that for complex state. I go into all the details in my mastering pinia course

[kabalage]

I think I just did that. I created a wrapper called skipSerialize(), in which I used a Symbol to mark the object similarly to how skipHydrate does it, and then I used definePayloadPlugin() to take control of its serialization.

Would it be beneficial to include this (or something similar) in the core library, or would you prefer to keep it separate? I could set up a PR if you're interested.

Edit: Yeah I agree that this is not something you want to do often, but we need it in a particularly complex part of our app.