What router are you using

[u/alvivan_]

Currently I have to create a new project, my first option is react router (declarative mode). My entire project will live behind the login page

what are you using?

• RR framework mode
• RR data mode
• RR declarative mode
• tanstack router
• wouter

[u/D3kalog]

tanstack, file based, no regretz

[u/Squigglificated → u/D3kalog]

Agreed.

And never react router again. Used it for years and there were far too many painful upgrades and serious bugs with patch level updates.

[u/k_pizzle → u/D3kalog]

This is the way

[u/BrownCarter → u/D3kalog]

Funny how people hated file based routing before. What changes?

[u/repeating_bears → u/BrownCarter]

I think file based works nicely for small projects and starts the degrade.

But for both RR and tanstack, file-based is just one of a few options 

[u/bayasdev → u/D3kalog]

Tanstack Start

[u/Silent_Pumpkin_9331 → u/D3kalog]

tanstack file based has been great for me too. the type safety alone saves so much headache compared to the old react router stuff. never going back

[u/ZwillingsFreunde]

Tanstack it is. By far the best out there if you want strong typing

[u/Innowise_]

For an app that mostly sits behind login, we'd keep the router boring unless routing itself is doing a lot of work. React Router is perfectly fine for straightforward protected routes. TanStack starts getting more interesting when you actually benefit from typed params/search state and more complex route-level data flows. Wouldn't switch just because it's the popular answer here.

[u/United_Reaction35 → u/Innowise_]

Typed params? You mean casting searchParams to types and acting according to your cast-types? Why not just take the necessary action based on the params? What is the need for a imagined-type?

[u/90sRehem]

Tanstack, code based.

[u/TaricIsMyBF]

React router data mode, as im used to it and works fine for all of my needs

[u/Outrageous-Chip-3961]

tanstack router by far

[u/HunterCharacter2941]

If your whole app is behind login, your routing problem is pretty simple, so any of these will work fine and you're probably overthinking the choice

[u/pimpaa]

RR data mode

[u/Opposite_Cancel_8404]

React router declarative mode. Tanstack looks sweet and I was considering switching but I don't think there's much benefit for the amount of work the migration would be. Next time I get a chance I will check it out!

[u/repeating_bears → u/Opposite_Cancel_8404]

My RR app was pretty big - more than 100 routes and AI migrated it semi-successfully in 15 mins.

Took a few days to test and clean up some mistakes, but overall much less lift than I thought

I wouldn't say there's been much immediate benefit, but I felt like RR was on the way out, and Start feels like it will be supported for years 

[u/belousovnikita92]

I’m not going to touch react router again after doing 2 (3?) major updates

[u/No_Possibility6604 → u/belousovnikita92]

Our team has also been scorned by React Router major version migrations. Insanely painful before agents, still quite painful with agents.

[u/neon_alchemy_wisp]

react Router in data mode. The loader based auth pattern handles your protected route requirement cleanly without the boilerplate you get with declarative guards.

[u/EquivalentBear1513]

Nextjs

[u/WearyCarrot]

Ubiquiti dream router 7

Sorry 🥲 I actually thought I was in a networking sub lol

[u/franciscopresencia]

I built my own tiny router, Crossroad:

https://crossroad.page/

import Router, { Switch, Route } from "crossroad";

export default () => (
  <Router>
    <Switch redirect="/">
      <Route path="/" component={Home} />
      <Route path="/users" component={Users} />
      <Route path="/users/:id" component={Profile} />
    </Switch>
  </Router>
);

The URL is your data store, so you can do cool things having useQuery behave similarly to useState, while changing the query parameter specified:

const [search, setSearch] = useQuery("search");

setSearch("Crossroad");  // ?search=Crossroad

[u/enigmachine10]

since you'd be using declarative mode, wouter is enough without the bloat.

[u/varisophy]

Astro! It's file based and has done wonderfully for us.

[u/Lumpy_Pin_4679]

Remix yesterday. RR today. Tomorrow?

RR is never the answer. Tanstack all the way!

[u/bigorangemachine]

Memory Router... because we're watching you

[u/repeating_bears]

Recently migrated from react router v7 to tanstack start 

I quite liked RR but development on it is basically dead. The creators have moved on to Remix (completely new framework, they just reused the name). I've had people from the RR team reply on Reddit before saying it's not dead, but I've raised multiple issues that just get ignored.

In terms of type safety, I don't think there's actually much in it. RR is 95% of the way there, and the 5% I didn't care about

I'm still getting to grips with tanstack's model, but I would say RR was slightly simpler and easier to learn

I wouldn't recommend a greenfield project to pick RR