window.$vm works in dev, but not in build

[ssuess]

In a current project I needed to access a data object via window.$vm reference. This works fine in my dev environment, but once I have built it, the reference no longer works, resulting in an error:

Uncaught TypeError: window.$vm is undefined

Is there a reason this would be and a workaround?

Thanks!

[ssuess]

Well, I worked around this by passing my object and function to the function that needed them, and that works in both dev and build.