# TanStack Router

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/tanstack-router/

15 people recommended TanStack Router in Hacker News comments and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 12 months, in 12 threads. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Recommended for type-safe, file-based routing in React apps, often paired with Vite and TanStack Query. Few critics, and no clear shared caveat.

Summary written by Claude from 18 comments. It was written before the November 2026 recount, and 17 of those comments still count.

## Why people recommend it

- Works well with Vite (3 comments in the sample): "I've found Vite + React SPA ( Tanstack Router/Query) with a Nodejs/Fast API to work so simply" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50030404)) "Right now for me the gold standard is Vite + Tanstack Router" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47365547)) "I went with a simple Hono + Tanstack Router/query." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47503164))
- Well-designed, iterative approach (3 comments in the sample): "TanStack Router builds on those failed iterations of React Router. Good software design is iterative." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46115802)) "robust, coherent, independent and logical evolution of battle-hardened wisdom" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50245414)) "libraries which put some thought in making it a bit better" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45797555))
- Smooth in practice, few issues (2 comments in the sample): "I’m currently using TanStack Router and I haven’t noticed issues" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45793528)) "Then 30 minuts-1 hour QA and it was done." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47763327))

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "TanStack Router", https://hackerapproved.com/p/tanstack-router/ (15 recommend, 0 mixed, 3 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.