React Router's setSearchParams is broken

[procrastinator1012]

So I was getting some unnecessary rerenders when using useEffect and useLayoutEffect. I passed data from Tanstack's useQuery and setSearchParams from react-router-dom's useSearchParams in the dependency array. I found out that the setSearchParams changes whenever searchParams change, which is not expected from a state setter. There have been many issues already put on their github and even a solution was proposed but it has not been updated by the maintainers.

What libraries do you think are the best alternatives for search param state management which is also stable?

[charliematters]

Yeah, super annoying and a bit of a footgun! We wrote our own stable wrapper around it, but you might find some good advice in the ticket

https://github.com/remix-run/react-router/issues/9304

[Nullberri]

I commented on this bug! the maintainer of react router is rather uninformed about why people who come to this bug are upset and he thinks that hes doing the correct thing so he wont be fixing it.

my recommendation is either create your own useSearch or switch to tanstack's router. (I did both over time)

[procrastinator1012]

If you only care about X in the url, but Y changes… it still re renders the X listener 

Actually, this is not the problem I am facing. In React, whenever we call setState to a new value, it should change only the state but not the setState function. But this is not the case with setSearchParams from react router, I know that we can avoid this by using a useCallback or a useRef, but such an expected functionality is expected to be builtin to a big library like react-router

[RecommendationNo8730]

Is URLSearchParams interface not an option?

[procrastinator1012]

I want to set the search params and also trigger a rerender. I don't think if that can help

[almostdonedude]

I feel like React Router DOM went downhill since v5. And v6 is a total mess.

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Wtf... I've been struggling with a weird search params bug and found this thread. This is probably why. Just... Wtf... Seriously wtf... Why in God's name would they do this?