History Types

While it's not required to know the @tanstack/history API itself to use TanStack Router, it's a good idea to understand how it works. Under the hood, TanStack Router requires and uses a history abstraction to manage the routing history.

If you don't create a history instance, a browser-oriented instance of this API is created for you when the router is initialized. If you need a special history API type, You can use the @tanstack/history package to create your own:

• createBrowserHistory: The default history type.
• createHashHistory: A history type that uses a hash to track history.
• createMemoryHistory: A history type that keeps the history in memory.
• createServerHistory: A history type with a fixed request URL and no-op navigation, used by the SSR request handlers.

Once you have a history instance, you can pass it to the Router constructor:

import { createMemoryHistory, createRouter } from '@tanstack/react-router'

const memoryHistory = createMemoryHistory({
  initialEntries: ['/'], // Pass your initial url
})

const router = createRouter({ routeTree, history: memoryHistory })

Browser Routing

The createBrowserHistory is the default history type. It uses the browser's history API to manage the browser history.

Hash Routing

Hash routing can be helpful if your server doesn't support rewrites to index.html for HTTP requests (among other environments that don't have a server).

import { createHashHistory, createRouter } from '@tanstack/react-router'

const hashHistory = createHashHistory()

const router = createRouter({ routeTree, history: hashHistory })

Memory Routing

Memory routing is useful in environments that are not a browser or when you do not want components to interact with the URL.

import { createMemoryHistory, createRouter } from '@tanstack/react-router'

const memoryHistory = createMemoryHistory({
  initialEntries: ['/'], // Pass your initial url
})

const router = createRouter({ routeTree, history: memoryHistory })

Refer to the SSR Guide for usage on the server for server-side rendering.