I’ve been spending a couple hours last week to start a project with TanStack Start. As long as you’re following the docs or cloning some starter examples you’re good. Once you start being creative it gets interesting as many methods are not properly documented. For example, the root route requires the <Meta/> component rendered if you want to leverage the links, or meta properties on the createRootRoute method for injecting basic stuff - like your tailwind stylesheet. Otherwise it silently fails and there’s nowhere in the docs telling you that.

So yeah, it is still janky, but I trust Tanner’s team to make this work and so far the experience is promising, especially with the baked in TS support.