TanStack Router: Making Routes Compile-Time Verifiable
TanStack Router (1.0 in December 2023, ~20M weekly downloads) makes paths, params, and search params compile-time inferred: navigating to a nonexistent route is a type error, not a runtime 404. This post unpacks its three core designs — type safety, first-class search params, and Query-integrated loaders — and why AI agents writing code amplifies their value.