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By default, TanStack Router parses and serializes your search params automatically using JSON.stringify/JSON.parse. Depending on your needs though, you may want to customize the serialization process.
To do so, use Router's parseSearch and stringifySearch options:
import { createRouter } from '@tanstack/react-router'
import qs from 'query-string'
// For example, we use `query-string` to render arrays in bracket notation:
// output: ?key[]=value1&key[]=value2
function customStringifier(searchObj) {
return qs.stringify(searchObj, { arrayFormat: 'bracket' })
}
function customParser(searchString) {
return qs.parse(searchString, { arrayFormat: 'bracket' })
}
const router = createRouter({
stringifySearch: customStringifier,
parseSearch: customParser,
})
import { createRouter } from '@tanstack/react-router'
import qs from 'query-string'
// For example, we use `query-string` to render arrays in bracket notation:
// output: ?key[]=value1&key[]=value2
function customStringifier(searchObj) {
return qs.stringify(searchObj, { arrayFormat: 'bracket' })
}
function customParser(searchString) {
return qs.parse(searchString, { arrayFormat: 'bracket' })
}
const router = createRouter({
stringifySearch: customStringifier,
parseSearch: customParser,
})
Additionally, you can use the parseSearchWith and stringifySearchWith utilities to parse and serialize the search values specifically.
For example, we can reimplement the default parser/serializer with the following code:
import {
Router,
parseSearchWith,
stringifySearchWith,
} from '@tanstack/react-router'
const router = createRouter({
parseSearch: parseSearchWith(JSON.parse),
stringifySearch: stringifySearchWith(JSON.stringify),
})
import {
Router,
parseSearchWith,
stringifySearchWith,
} from '@tanstack/react-router'
const router = createRouter({
parseSearch: parseSearchWith(JSON.parse),
stringifySearch: stringifySearchWith(JSON.stringify),
})
It's common to base64 encode your search params to achieve maximum compatibility across browsers and URL unfurlers, etc. This can be done with the following code:
import {
Router,
parseSearchWith,
stringifySearchWith,
} from '@tanstack/react-router'
const router = createRouter({
parseSearch: parseSearchWith((value) => JSON.parse(decodeFromBinary(value))),
stringifySearch: stringifySearchWith((value) =>
encodeToBinary(JSON.stringify(value)),
),
})
export function decodeFromBinary(str: string): string {
return decodeURIComponent(
Array.prototype.map
.call(atob(str), function (c) {
return '%' + ('00' + c.charCodeAt(0).toString(16)).slice(-2)
})
.join(''),
)
}
export function encodeToBinary(str: string): string {
return btoa(
encodeURIComponent(str).replace(/%([0-9A-F]{2})/g, function (match, p1) {
return String.fromCharCode(parseInt(p1, 16))
}),
)
}
import {
Router,
parseSearchWith,
stringifySearchWith,
} from '@tanstack/react-router'
const router = createRouter({
parseSearch: parseSearchWith((value) => JSON.parse(decodeFromBinary(value))),
stringifySearch: stringifySearchWith((value) =>
encodeToBinary(JSON.stringify(value)),
),
})
export function decodeFromBinary(str: string): string {
return decodeURIComponent(
Array.prototype.map
.call(atob(str), function (c) {
return '%' + ('00' + c.charCodeAt(0).toString(16)).slice(-2)
})
.join(''),
)
}
export function encodeToBinary(str: string): string {
return btoa(
encodeURIComponent(str).replace(/%([0-9A-F]{2})/g, function (match, p1) {
return String.fromCharCode(parseInt(p1, 16))
}),
)
}
Zipson is a very user-friendly and performant JSON compression library (both in runtime performance and the resulting compression performance). To compress your search params with it (which requires escaping/unescaping and base64 encoding/decoding them as well), you can use the following code:
import {
Router,
parseSearchWith,
stringifySearchWith,
} from '@tanstack/react-router'
import { stringify, parse } from 'zipson'
const router = createRouter({
parseSearch: parseSearchWith((value) =>
parse(decodeURIComponent(decodeFromBinary(value))),
),
stringifySearch: stringifySearchWith((value) =>
encodeToBinary(encodeURIComponent(stringify(value))),
),
})
export function decodeFromBinary(str: string): string {
return decodeURIComponent(
Array.prototype.map
.call(atob(str), function (c) {
return '%' + ('00' + c.charCodeAt(0).toString(16)).slice(-2)
})
.join(''),
)
}
export function encodeToBinary(str: string): string {
return btoa(
encodeURIComponent(str).replace(/%([0-9A-F]{2})/g, function (match, p1) {
return String.fromCharCode(parseInt(p1, 16))
}),
)
}
import {
Router,
parseSearchWith,
stringifySearchWith,
} from '@tanstack/react-router'
import { stringify, parse } from 'zipson'
const router = createRouter({
parseSearch: parseSearchWith((value) =>
parse(decodeURIComponent(decodeFromBinary(value))),
),
stringifySearch: stringifySearchWith((value) =>
encodeToBinary(encodeURIComponent(stringify(value))),
),
})
export function decodeFromBinary(str: string): string {
return decodeURIComponent(
Array.prototype.map
.call(atob(str), function (c) {
return '%' + ('00' + c.charCodeAt(0).toString(16)).slice(-2)
})
.join(''),
)
}
export function encodeToBinary(str: string): string {
return btoa(
encodeURIComponent(str).replace(/%([0-9A-F]{2})/g, function (match, p1) {
return String.fromCharCode(parseInt(p1, 16))
}),
)
}
JSURL2 is a non-standard library that can both compress URLs while still maintaining readability. This can be done with the following code:
import {
Router,
parseSearchWith,
stringifySearchWith,
} from '@tanstack/react-router'
import jsurl from 'jsurl2'
const router = createRouter({
parseSearch: parseSearchWith(jsurl.parse),
stringifySearch: stringifySearchWith(jsurl.stringify),
})
import {
Router,
parseSearchWith,
stringifySearchWith,
} from '@tanstack/react-router'
import jsurl from 'jsurl2'
const router = createRouter({
parseSearch: parseSearchWith(jsurl.parse),
stringifySearch: stringifySearchWith(jsurl.stringify),
})
In the browser, atob and btoa are not guaranteed to work properly with non-UTF8 characters. We recommend using these encoding/decoding utilities instead:
To encode from a string to a binary string:
export function encodeToBinary(str: string): string {
return btoa(
encodeURIComponent(str).replace(/%([0-9A-F]{2})/g, function (match, p1) {
return String.fromCharCode(parseInt(p1, 16))
}),
)
}
export function encodeToBinary(str: string): string {
return btoa(
encodeURIComponent(str).replace(/%([0-9A-F]{2})/g, function (match, p1) {
return String.fromCharCode(parseInt(p1, 16))
}),
)
}
To decode from a binary string to a string:
export function decodeFromBinary(str: string): string {
return decodeURIComponent(
Array.prototype.map
.call(atob(str), function (c) {
return '%' + ('00' + c.charCodeAt(0).toString(16)).slice(-2)
})
.join(''),
)
}
export function decodeFromBinary(str: string): string {
return decodeURIComponent(
Array.prototype.map
.call(atob(str), function (c) {
return '%' + ('00' + c.charCodeAt(0).toString(16)).slice(-2)
})
.join(''),
)
}
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