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What this changes, and why

There was no install guide for TanStack Start, and neither neighbouring guide fits it: Start has no index.html (so the React (Vite / CRA) page is wrong for it) and its document head is the root route's head() option, not a <head> in a layout (so the Next.js page doesn't transfer either). This adds one DOC_FRAMEWORKS entry — the docs are data, so it's a new list item, not a new page — placed after Next.js. The steps: the script as a scripts entry in head() of src/routes/__root.tsx, the <HeadContent /> reminder, and the auto-tracked-navigation note, plus the shared verify step.

It's marked cliDetects: false for now (same branch of the page template Webflow and Shopify use). oa init detection and an injector are a separate, follow-up change so this one stays a pure docs fix.

How you know it works

  • Checked the shape against TanStack's own source, not memory: createRootRoute({ head: () => ({ scripts: [...] }) }) from @tanstack/react-router (the start-basic example and build-from-scratch guide); Asset.tsx types script entries as [key: string]: string | boolean and spreads them onto <script> on the server / setAttribute on the client, so async and data-* pass through; the router's document-head guide uses an external analytics src as its scripts example.
  • Checked step 3's claim ("route changes tracked automatically") against both sides: the tracker patches history.pushState/replaceState and listens to popstate; TanStack's history flush() calls the live window.history.pushState (it keeps the original only for destroy()), so the async-loaded patch sees every transition. Same-URL writes (Start's startup replaceState key stamp) are deduped by the tracker's lastPageUrl check.
  • Rendered locally: /docs/install/tanstack-start returns 200 with the right title, /docs/install and the sidebar list it after Next.js.
  • pnpm run verify passes.

Anything a reviewer should look at twice

  • Placement after Next.js is a judgment call about prominence — the list wasn't strictly grouped by runtime before (Remix and Gatsby sit further down). Happy to move it.
  • The header comment in docs-frameworks.ts is reworded to say the list is "detection + guides the CLI does not reach", since TanStack Start is now the one undetected non-hosted entry.

  • pnpm run verify passes locally
  • API surface changes start in packages/contracts/openapi/openapi.yaml and pnpm run contracts:generate was re-run — n/a, no API change
  • Tracker changes still fit the byte budget (pnpm run tracker:build) — n/a, no tracker change

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  • Documentation
    • Added TanStack Start to the framework installation guides not automatically detected by the CLI.
    • Documented root-route head() configuration and HeadContent rendering requirements.
    • Added guidance for automatic navigation tracking and deployment verification.

Start has no HTML shell; its document head is the root route's head()
option, rendered by <HeadContent />. Neither the Next.js guide nor the
React (Vite / CRA) one described that, so a Start project had no correct
page to follow. One entry in DOC_FRAMEWORKS, placed after Next.js, with
the script as a `scripts` entry in src/routes/__root.tsx.

The shape is TanStack's own: head() -> scripts[] from @tanstack/react-router,
whose Script renderer spreads arbitrary attrs, so async and data-* pass
through on both the server render and the client setAttribute path. Router
navigation is covered by the tracker's history patch: TanStack's history
flush() calls the live window.history.pushState, not the original it saved
for destroy(), so the async-loaded patch still sees every transition.

Manual-only for now (cliDetects: false); `oa init` detection and an
injector are a separate change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The oa init detection + injector half is tracked in #4; PR to follow once that gets a nod.

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The framework installation documentation now lists TanStack Start and adds guidance for root-route head(), <HeadContent />, navigation tracking, and deployment verification.

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TanStack Start guide
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The documentation lists TanStack Start among frameworks not detected by the CLI. It adds root-route head() configuration, <HeadContent /> placement, automatic client-side navigation tracking, and deployment verification steps.

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The guide adds TanStack Start installation instructions but still uses inaccurate terminology for its HTML document shell, which could mislead users configuring document metadata and scripts. The change is otherwise localized and mergeable with explicit owner awareness or a follow-up correction.

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"No HTML shell" was wrong: shellComponent on the root route is the shell.
What Start lacks is a static HTML file, which is the point the step makes.

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Checked this against the page template and against the tracker itself: the head() shape matches TanStack's start-basic example, and the navigation claim is how the tracker really behaves (it patches pushState/replaceState and dedupes same-URL writes, so Start's startup replaceState stamp is a no-op). Placement after Next.js reads fine.

Plan: this merges first, then #5 rebases on top. Thanks for keeping the docs half pure.

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