# Where does the application instance get saved to in production? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ember CLI\ **Created:** [October 15, 2015, 6:19pm UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/where-does-the-application-instance-get-saved-to-in-production/8962 "2015-10-15T18:19:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tsteuwer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.emberjs.com/tsteuwer/32/10887_2.png) [@tsteuwer](https://discuss.emberjs.com/u/tsteuwer)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 6:19pm UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/where-does-the-application-instance-get-saved-to-in-production/8962/1 "2015-10-15T18:19:17Z")
Short story: So one of our developers has created an OAuth with a popup that references the container based on `window.opener.APP_NAME_HERE`. However, in production mode, that application instance is no longer there. I know this is a horrible idea (and its a simple internal tool at the moment so theres no issues with security) and we’re changing this, but is there a way that in production mode in the mean while? I’ve looked through the entire window object and can’t find it anywhere. ---
**Author:** ![brian\_ally](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.emberjs.com/brian_ally/32/10571_2.png) [@brian\_ally](https://discuss.emberjs.com/u/brian_ally)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 8:25pm UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/where-does-the-application-instance-get-saved-to-in-production/8962/2 "2015-10-15T20:25:57Z")
window.Ember.Application AFAIK ---
**Author:** ![tsteuwer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.emberjs.com/tsteuwer/32/10887_2.png) [@tsteuwer](https://discuss.emberjs.com/u/tsteuwer)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 8:39pm UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/where-does-the-application-instance-get-saved-to-in-production/8962/3 "2015-10-15T20:39:00Z")
Unfortunately that’s just a class, not the instance ---
**Author:** ![brian\_ally](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.emberjs.com/brian_ally/32/10571_2.png) [@brian\_ally](https://discuss.emberjs.com/u/brian_ally)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 9:26pm UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/where-does-the-application-instance-get-saved-to-in-production/8962/4 "2015-10-15T21:26:05Z")
Right. I was thinking maybe you could get access to the actual app instance from there. In production it’d be minified i suppose, so i don’t know that it would be easily accessible by looking through the window properties. I presume it’s a closure in there somewhere. Have you looked into Simple-Auth? ---
**Author:** ![tsteuwer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.emberjs.com/tsteuwer/32/10887_2.png) [@tsteuwer](https://discuss.emberjs.com/u/tsteuwer)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 10:30pm UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/where-does-the-application-instance-get-saved-to-in-production/8962/5 "2015-10-15T22:30:08Z")
I looked through all of that and wasn’t able to find it ---
**Author:** ![acorncom](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.emberjs.com/acorncom/32/12198_2.png) [@acorncom](https://discuss.emberjs.com/u/acorncom)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 3:24am UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/where-does-the-application-instance-get-saved-to-in-production/8962/6 "2015-10-16T03:24:10Z")
I think you’re looking for [GitHub - ember-cli/ember-export-application-global](https://github.com/ember-cli/ember-export-application-global) ---
**Author:** ![tsteuwer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.emberjs.com/tsteuwer/32/10887_2.png) [@tsteuwer](https://discuss.emberjs.com/u/tsteuwer)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 1:32pm UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/where-does-the-application-instance-get-saved-to-in-production/8962/7 "2015-10-16T13:32:08Z")
Genius!!! Thank you so much. I can’t believe I didn’t think about the application initializer! Thanks so much @acorncom