Nuxtjs not grabbing query params

Question

I have the following url: localhost:8080/account/reset-password?c=525448&g=usr&u=144c4c8e-5bf1-454f-a863-20c4ee149865 and am trying to grab the query parameters using Nuxtjs.

Within nuxt it seems like there is a $router object that can be used as const queryParams = this.$route.query but when I log out queryParams its an empty object.

I have also gone into the the browser console and tried

const urlSearchParams = new URLSearchParams(window.location.search);
const params = Object.fromEntries(urlSearchParams.entries());
console.log(params) // returns Object {  }

what am I doing wrong? I would expect there to be an object

{
  c: 525448
  g: usr
  u: 144c4c8e-5bf1-454f-a863-20c4ee149865
}