Most React state doesn't need a library. Then one workflow grows into drafts, derived values, undo, optimistic steps, and cross-component coordination. This is where I reach for Reatom instead of turning TanStack Query into a client-state store.
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Routing is not just rendering a page for a path. In serious React apps, the URL carries product state: filters, tabs, pagination, selected records, redirects, and preload decisions. TanStack Router makes that state typed instead of hopeful.
TanStack Query is not just a better useEffect. It is the server-state layer of your React app. The hard part is not fetching data — it is designing keys, freshness, invalidation, pagination, and prefetching so the UI stays predictable.
Error handling is not a catch block sprinkled at the end. In a React + TanStack app, it is a product decision: what fails locally, what fails at the route level, what can retry, and what the user needs to do next.
Flat folders are fine until every feature starts touching routes, queries, forms, permissions, and UI state. Here's the React structure I use when a TanStack app grows past the simple stage without turning FSD into folder theater.
Not a TypeScript tutorial. A focused look at the patterns that eliminate real production bugs in React + TanStack apps — typed API layers, discriminated unions for async state, route param inference, and generic components done right.
How structured documentation dramatically improves AI-generated code quality by giving agents the context they need.
Every new React project starts with the same question: which tools? After years of watching teams assemble mismatched libraries that fight each other, I stopped choosing independently. This is the coherent stack I now use by default — and why.