tanstack-react-router_installation

Manual Setup

To set up TanStack Router manually in a React project, follow the steps below. This gives you a bare minimum setup to get going with TanStack Router using both file-based route generation and code-based route configuration:

Using File-Based Route Generation

Install TanStack Router, Vite Plugin, and the Router Devtools

npm install @tanstack/react-router @tanstack/react-router-devtools
npm install -D @tanstack/router-plugin
# or
pnpm add @tanstack/react-router @tanstack/react-router-devtools
pnpm add -D @tanstack/router-plugin
# or
yarn add @tanstack/react-router @tanstack/react-router-devtools
yarn add -D @tanstack/router-plugin
# or
bun add @tanstack/react-router @tanstack/react-router-devtools
bun add -D @tanstack/router-plugin
# or
deno add npm:@tanstack/react-router npm:@tanstack/router-plugin npm:@tanstack/react-router-devtools

Configure the Vite Plugin

// vite.config.ts
import { defineConfig } from 'vite'
import react from '@vitejs/plugin-react'
import { tanstackRouter } from '@tanstack/router-plugin/vite'

// https://vitejs.dev/config/
export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [
    // Please make sure that '@tanstack/router-plugin' is passed before '@vitejs/plugin-react'
    tanstackRouter({
      target: 'react',
      autoCodeSplitting: true,
    }),
    react(),
    // ...,
  ],
})

[!TIP] If you are not using Vite, or any of the supported bundlers, you can check out the TanStack Router CLI guide for more info.

Create the following files:

• src/routes/__root.tsx (with two '_' characters)
• src/routes/index.tsx
• src/routes/about.tsx
• src/main.tsx

src/routes/__root.tsx

import { createRootRoute, Link, Outlet } from '@tanstack/react-router'
import { TanStackRouterDevtools } from '@tanstack/react-router-devtools'

const RootLayout = () => (
  <>
    <div className="p-2 flex gap-2">
      <Link to="/" className="[&.active]:font-bold">
        Home
      </Link>{' '}
      <Link to="/about" className="[&.active]:font-bold">
        About
      </Link>
    </div>
    <hr />
    <Outlet />
    <TanStackRouterDevtools />
  </>
)

export const Route = createRootRoute({ component: RootLayout })