Tanner Linsley joins React Universe On Air to unpack the evolution of the TanStack ecosystem—from React Table and React Query to TanStack Router and the newest addition to the family, TanStack Start ✨

What started as internal tooling for Nozzle became a suite of libraries that shaped how developers think about server state, routing, and full-stack React apps. In this episode, Tanner shares the technical decisions behind building framework-agnostic, headless tools—and explains why client-side architecture still matters in a server-first world.

You’ll also hear why TanStack Start isn’t just another full-stack framework, how React Server Components could be treated like server state, and what’s coming next for TanStack Router.

If you're building React apps at scale or deciding how to modernize your frontend stack, don’t skip this one!

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Chapters

00:00 Welcome to the React Universe

00:00 Introduction to Open Source and Server State

01:15 Meet our guest: Tanner Linsley

02:19 How Tanner got into programming

04:06 Early programming days when there was no React yet

05:41 Cross-platform beginnings

07:40 Open Source contributions

09:24 Working on Chart.js

14:12 React Table at Nozzle

16:58 How React Static started

20:53 React Query taking shape

27:53 Community reactions to React Query

33:18 Framework agnostic approach

36:26 Cross-platform frameworks comparison

37:56 Headless, type safety, and no dependencies

46:22 TanStack Router

01:00:59 TanStack Start

01:11:06 React Server Components

01:18:51 Wrap-up

01:20:29 React Universe Conf Speakers Announcement