TanStack Router
Hacker ApprovedRouting library in Developer tools
Recommended for type-safe, file-based routing in React apps, often paired with Vite and TanStack Query. Few critics, and no clear shared caveat.
15 people recommended TanStack Router in Hacker News comments and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026.
Summary written by Claude from 18 comments. It was written before the November 2026 recount, and 17 of those comments still count.
18 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 15
- mixed feelings
- 0
- warn against or regret it
- 3
The record
Recommended in 6 of 12 months
In 12 different threads.
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
Why it carries the badge
- 15 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 6 of 12 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
- Recommended in 12 threadsNeeds 5 or more, met.
- The biggest thread supplies 13% of its recommendersNeeds half or less, met.
The same rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. Mixed feelings count toward neither side. How the badge works
What people say about it
Reasons grouped from a sample of 17 of the 20 opinions about it, picked in proportion to how many people recommend it, have mixed feelings and criticize it. Each mark is one comment in the sample. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Works well with Vite
“I've found Vite + React SPA ( Tanstack Router/Query) with a Nodejs/Fast API to work so simply”
Comment from 10 Oct 2026 in “Next.js 16.4” “Right now for me the gold standard is Vite + Tanstack Router”
Comment from 13 Mar 2026 in “Vite 8.0 Is Out” “I went with a simple Hono + Tanstack Router/query.”
Comment from 24 Mar 2026 in “No-build, no-NPM, SSR-first JavaScript framework if you hate React, love HTML” Well-designed, iterative approach
“TanStack Router builds on those failed iterations of React Router. Good software design is iterative.”
Comment from 2 Dec 2025 in “React and Remix choose different futures” “robust, coherent, independent and logical evolution of battle-hardened wisdom”
Comment from 26 Oct 2026 in “Removing Next.js Got My Blog to 100 on Every Lighthouse Category” “libraries which put some thought in making it a bit better”
Comment from 3 Nov 2025 in “URLs are state containers” Smooth in practice, few issues
“I’m currently using TanStack Router and I haven’t noticed issues”
Comment from 2 Nov 2025 in “One year with Next.js App Router and why we're moving on” “Then 30 minuts-1 hour QA and it was done.”
Comment from 14 Apr 2026 in “TanStack Start Now Support React Server Components”
What people said
17 of the 20 opinions about it, picked in proportion to the three counts, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“robust, coherent, independent and logical evolution of battle-hardened wisdom”
“I've found Vite + React SPA ( Tanstack Router/Query) with a Nodejs/Fast API to work so simply”
“the rationale for using TanStack Router for an application with a single page and no server endpoints”
“IMO his stuff became popular on merit more than some cargo culting à la redux”
“Then 30 minuts-1 hour QA and it was done.”
“Use Query, or Router, or something.”
“they are the next toy for the magpie developers”
“TanStack Router's type-safe routing and file-based route generation have been great.”
“This is a really nice combo.”
“I went with a simple Hono + Tanstack Router/query.”
“Right now for me the gold standard is Vite + Tanstack Router”
“stick to using TanStack Router exclusively (zero server at all”
“I spent half a day trying to get breadcrumbs to work”
“TanStack Router builds on those failed iterations of React Router. Good software design is iterative.”
“So I have routes such as example.com/viewer/$uuid/$number, it should 400 if those aren't actually validate uuid and numbers.”
“libraries which put some thought in making it a bit better”
“I’m currently using TanStack Router and I haven’t noticed issues”
Counts come from 1,791,911 Hacker News comments labeled by Claude, November 2025 to October 2026, with data through October 31, 2026. Counts updated 2 Nov 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.