Diagnosing and Correcting Common Routing Errors

Discuss how to leverage TanStack Router Devtools to diagnose a common routing error, such as a broken route path, and demonstrate the steps to correct it using the devtools' insights.

import { createBrowserRouter, RouterProvider } from '@tanstack/react-router';
import { DevTools } from '@tanstack/router-devtools';

// Define your routes
const router = createBrowserRouter([
  // Define your route objects here
]);

// Enhance router with DevTools
const routerWithDevTools = DevTools.enhanceRouter(router);

// In your main component or entry file
function App() {
  return (
    <>
      <RouterProvider router={routerWithDevTools} />
      <DevTools />
    </>
  );
}

Here, we're setting up TanStack Router with DevTools. We first import necessary functions from '@tanstack/react-router' and the DevTools from '@tanstack/router-devtools'. We then create a router instance and enhance it with DevTools for debugging purposes. Finally, we render the RouterProvider and DevTools in our main App component.

// After inspecting DevTools and identifying a broken route
const correctedRouter = createBrowserRouter([
  { // Your corrected route configurations after diagnosing the issue using DevTools
    path: '/corrected-path',
    // other route configurations
  },
]);

After using the DevTools to identify a broken route path, we correct the router's configuration. Here, we're redefining the routes, including the corrected path that was identified as an issue in the DevTools.