Static Route Data

Static Route Data

When creating routes, you can optionally specify a staticData property in the route's options. This object can literally contain anything you want as long as it's synchronously available when you create your route.

In addition to being able to access this data from the route itself, you can also access it from any match under the match.staticData property.

Example

posts.tsx

tsx

import { createFileRoute } from '@tanstack/react-router'

export const Route = createFileRoute('/posts')({
  staticData: {
    customData: 'Hello!',
  },
})

import { createFileRoute } from '@tanstack/react-router'

export const Route = createFileRoute('/posts')({
  staticData: {
    customData: 'Hello!',
  },
})

You can then access this data anywhere you have access to your routes, including matches that can be mapped back to their routes.

__root.tsx

tsx

import { createRootRoute } from '@tanstack/react-router'

export const Route = createRootRoute({
  component: () => {
    const matches = useMatches()

    return (
      <div>
        {matches.map((match) => {
          return <div key={match.id}>{match.staticData.customData}</div>
        })}
      </div>
    )
  },
})

import { createRootRoute } from '@tanstack/react-router'

export const Route = createRootRoute({
  component: () => {
    const matches = useMatches()

    return (
      <div>
        {matches.map((match) => {
          return <div key={match.id}>{match.staticData.customData}</div>
        })}
      </div>
    )
  },
})

Enforcing Static Data

If you want to enforce that a route has static data, you can use declaration merging to add a type to the route's static option:

tsx

declare module '@tanstack/react-router' {
  interface StaticDataRouteOption {
    customData: string
  }
}

declare module '@tanstack/react-router' {
  interface StaticDataRouteOption {
    customData: string
  }
}

Now, if you try to create a route without the customData property, you'll get a type error:

tsx

import { createFileRoute } from '@tanstack/react-router'

export const Route = createFileRoute('/posts')({
  staticData: {
    // Property 'customData' is missing in type '{ customData: number; }' but required in type 'StaticDataRouteOption'.ts(2741)
  },
})

import { createFileRoute } from '@tanstack/react-router'

export const Route = createFileRoute('/posts')({
  staticData: {
    // Property 'customData' is missing in type '{ customData: number; }' but required in type 'StaticDataRouteOption'.ts(2741)
  },
})

Optional Static Data

If you want to make static data optional, simply add a ? to the property:

tsx

declare module '@tanstack/react-router' {
  interface StaticDataRouteOption {
    customData?: string
  }
}

declare module '@tanstack/react-router' {
  interface StaticDataRouteOption {
    customData?: string
  }
}

As long as there are any required properties on the StaticDataRouteOption, you'll be required to pass in an object.

Example

Enforcing Static Data

Optional Static Data

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