Installation with Vite

To use file-based routing with Vite, you'll need to install the @tanstack/router-plugin package.

npm install -D @tanstack/router-plugin

npm install -D @tanstack/router-plugin

Once installed, you'll need to add the plugin to your Vite configuration.

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

// https://vitejs.dev/config/
export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [
    TanStackRouterVite({ target: 'react', autoCodeSplitting: true }),
    react(),
    // ...
  ],
})

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

// https://vitejs.dev/config/
export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [
    TanStackRouterVite({ target: 'react', autoCodeSplitting: true }),
    react(),
    // ...
  ],
})

Or, you can clone our Quickstart Vite example and get started.

Now that you've added the plugin to your Vite configuration, you're all set to start using file-based routing with TanStack Router.

If your project is configured to use a linter and/or formatter, you may want to ignore the generated route tree file. This file is managed by TanStack Router and therefore shouldn't be changed by your linter or formatter.

Here are some resources to help you ignore the generated route tree file:

• Prettier - https://prettier.io/docs/en/ignore.html#ignoring-files-prettierignore
• ESLint - https://eslint.org/docs/latest/use/configure/ignore#ignoring-files
• Biome - https://biomejs.dev/reference/configuration/#filesignore

You can prevent that from the VSCode settings by marking the file as readonly. Our recommendation is to also exclude it from search results and file watcher with the following settings:

{
  "files.readonlyInclude": {
    "**/routeTree.gen.ts": true
  },
  "files.watcherExclude": {
    "**/routeTree.gen.ts": true
  },
  "search.exclude": {
    "**/routeTree.gen.ts": true
  }
}

{
  "files.readonlyInclude": {
    "**/routeTree.gen.ts": true
  },
  "files.watcherExclude": {
    "**/routeTree.gen.ts": true
  },
  "search.exclude": {
    "**/routeTree.gen.ts": true
  }
}

You can use those settings either at a user level or only for a single workspace by creating the file .vscode/settings.json at the root of your project.

When using the TanStack Router Plugin with Vite for File-based routing, it comes with some sane defaults that should work for most projects:

{
  "routesDirectory": "./src/routes",
  "generatedRouteTree": "./src/routeTree.gen.ts",
  "routeFileIgnorePrefix": "-",
  "quoteStyle": "single"
}

{
  "routesDirectory": "./src/routes",
  "generatedRouteTree": "./src/routeTree.gen.ts",
  "routeFileIgnorePrefix": "-",
  "quoteStyle": "single"
}

If these defaults work for your project, you don't need to configure anything at all! However, if you need to customize the configuration, you can do so by editing the configuration object passed into the TanStackRouterVite function.

You can find all the available configuration options in the File-based Routing API Reference.