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Choosing a React Stack in the AI Era: From the TanStack Trio to the Full Map

TanStack Router (19.7M weekly downloads) + Query (55.8M) + Zustand (44.5M) as the core, with Vite, react-hook-form + Zod (224M), Tailwind + shadcn, and Vitest + Playwright — the current default stack for serious SPAs. The AI era adds three new selection criteria: does the docs site ship llms.txt (all of TanStack does; React Router doesn't), can type safety act as an agent guardrail, and does the source code live in your repo where an agent can read it.

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TanStack Query: The Standard Solution for Server State

Managing API data with useState + useEffect means reinventing the wheel — and doing it worse. TanStack Query handles caching, background updates, and loading/error states so you can focus on UI logic.