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🎯 Changes

Fixes #8827.

When a route chunk is still loading and the user leaves the page (types an address, follows a plain link, reloads), Firefox and Safari cancel the pending dynamic import and reject it with the same message as a missing module. lazyRouteComponent reads that as a stale deploy and calls window.location.reload(), which replaces the navigation the user just started, so they land back on the page they were leaving.

The fix watches for beforeunload while an import is pending. If the page began unloading before the import failed, the failure says nothing about a stale deploy, so the component waits instead of reloading:

const stopWatchingUnload = watchPageUnload()
loadPromise = importer()
  .then((res) => { stopWatchingUnload(); ... })
  .catch((err) => {
    cancelledByUnload = stopWatchingUnload() && isModuleNotFoundError(err)
    ...
  })

beforeunload does not always mean the page goes away (mailto: and download links, a back/forward cache restore), so waitForPageToStay() resolves on the first pageshow, pointerdown or keydown, and the import is then retried. If the retry fails with a missing module, the existing reload-once path runs as before.

Two choices worth flagging:

• The beforeunload listener is only attached while an import is pending, rather than for the lifetime of the app, so apps that never load a chunk at unload time get no listener and back/forward cache eligibility is unaffected.
• After the page stays, the import is retried rather than reloading, since the chunk was cancelled, not missing.

The two helpers live in router-core/src/utils.ts next to isModuleNotFoundError and are used by the React, Solid and Vue adapters. This is the approach the reporter is running as a local patch, moved behind the import so it is scoped to pending loads.

Open PRs #8242, #8433 and #8635 also edit lazyRouteComponent or isModuleNotFoundError. They address different triggers and the changes are independent, but whichever lands second will need a small rebase.

Tests

New lazy-route-chunk-unload.test.tsx in each adapter. jsdom cannot reload, so the tests assert on the reload guard's sessionStorage key.

scenario	before	after
import cancelled during unload	reload	waits, retries on interaction, renders
cancelled during unload, retry still missing	reload	reload once after the retry (react)
missing module, no unload	reload	reload (unchanged)
beforeunload after the import already failed	reload	reload (unchanged)

The unload cases fail on main in all three adapters and pass on this branch.

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Local verification: test:unit, test:types and test:eslint pass for router-core, react-router, solid-router and vue-router (0 lint errors; warnings at the existing baseline).

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Lazy route chunks canceled as a page is closing in Firefox or Safari no longer trigger an unnecessary page reload.
  • If the page remains open, the route import can be retried when the user interacts with the page. Other missing-module errors continue to trigger the existing reload behavior.

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🦋 Changeset detected

Latest commit: 936a107

The changes in this PR will be included in the next version bump.

This PR includes changesets to release 23 packages

Name	Type
@tanstack/router-core	Patch
@tanstack/react-router	Patch
@tanstack/solid-router	Patch
@tanstack/vue-router	Patch
@tanstack/react-start-client	Patch
@tanstack/react-start-rsc	Patch
@tanstack/react-start-server	Patch
@tanstack/router-generator	Patch
@tanstack/router-plugin	Patch
@tanstack/solid-start-client	Patch
@tanstack/solid-start-server	Patch
@tanstack/start-client-core	Patch
@tanstack/start-plugin-core	Patch
@tanstack/start-server-core	Patch
@tanstack/start-storage-context	Patch
@tanstack/vue-start-client	Patch
@tanstack/vue-start-server	Patch
@tanstack/react-start	Patch
@tanstack/solid-start	Patch
@tanstack/vue-start	Patch
@tanstack/router-cli	Patch
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Walkthrough

Lazy route components in React, Solid, and Vue now detect module-not-found import failures that coincide with page unloads. They wait for evidence that the page remains open before retrying. Router core provides the lifecycle helpers, and tests cover unload and non-unload failures.

Changes: Lazy route chunk unload handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Page lifecycle helpers packages/router-core/src/utils.ts, packages/router-core/src/index.ts	Router core adds watchPageUnload and waitForPageToStay, then exports both helpers.
Framework lazy-route retry handling packages/{react,solid,vue}-router/src/lazyRouteComponent.tsx, packages/{react,solid,vue}-router/tests/lazy-route-chunk-unload.test.tsx, .changeset/lazy-chunk-unload-no-reload.md	The three lazy route components wait for the page to remain before retrying an import canceled during unload. Tests check retry behavior and reload markers for unload and non-unload failures. The changeset declares patch releases for four router packages.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: sheraff, birkskyum

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 936a1

This change stops Firefox and Safari from reloading the page when navigation cancels a route-chunk import. In Vue, if the retried import fails again, the route can stay blank instead of reloading once. In all adapters, a page-show event that arrives just before the retry listener is attached can leave the route waiting for further user input. Both cases are limited to unload-cancelled imports, but they should be fixed before merge.

Pre-merge checks: 5

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: preventing reloads when a route chunk is cancelled during page unload.
Description check		The description includes the requested Changes, Checklist, Release Impact, motivation, implementation details, testing results, and linked issue context. It is complete and directly relevant to the pu…
Linked Issues check		Issue #8827 requires preventing a reload when Firefox or Safari cancel a pending route-chunk import during navigation away. watchPageUnload records beforeunload during the pending import. The adap…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes stay within issue #8827. The utility helpers, router-core exports, adapter integration, changeset, and adapter tests directly support unload cancellation handling and retry behavior. No un…
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…

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Issue #8827 requires preventing a reload when Firefox or Safari cancel a pending route-chunk import during navigation away. watchPageUnload records beforeunload during the pending import. The adapter lazy components defer the error, wait for pageshow, pointerdown, or keydown, and retry the import. A retry failure uses the existing reload-once guard. The change is wired to React, Solid, and Vue, and each adapter has unload-focused tests. The existing missing-module path remains covered.

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The changes stay within issue #8827. The utility helpers, router-core exports, adapter integration, changeset, and adapter tests directly support unload cancellation handling and retry behavior. No unrelated product behavior or unrelated files are identified in the supplied pull request evidence.

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Review comments at @packages/router-core/src/utils.ts:
- Around line 546-548: Update the unload-cancellation flow around
waitForPageToStay so stay events are observed when the import failure is
classified, or recorded then and reused when rendering begins. Ensure a pageshow
event in that interval prevents the component from remaining suspended, and add
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Review comments at @packages/vue-router/src/lazyRouteComponent.tsx:
- Line 96: Update the retry continuation around load() so a retry that records a
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set -o pipefail
printf '%s\n' '--- diff ---'
git diff --unified=40 da2adec76dbe6c0da6d6a0d5640f7b9388217f45 936a107f5f5c3f5040e72c5ce7172b5dbbb4e42d -- packages/router-core/src/utils.ts packages/react-router packages/solid-router packages/vue-router
printf '%s\n' '--- helper and references ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.{ts,tsx}' -e 'waitForPageToStay' -e 'watchPageUnload' packages/router-core packages/react-router packages/solid-router packages/vue-router || test "$?" -eq 1
printf '%s\n' '--- utils block ---'
sed -n '500,575p' packages/router-core/src/utils.ts

Repository: TanStack/router

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Subscribe to stay events when unload cancellation is classified.

waitForPageToStay() adds its listeners only when the lazy component enters the cancelled-by-unload render path. If pageshow fires after the import failure is classified but before that path runs, no listener observes it. The component can then remain suspended until a later pointerdown or keydown.

Start the stay listener when the failure is classified, or record the stay event at that point and reuse it during rendering. Add a regression for pageshow in this interval.

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Review comment at @packages/router-core/src/utils.ts around lines 546 - 548:
Update the unload-cancellation flow around waitForPageToStay so stay events are
observed when the import failure is classified, or recorded then and reused when
rendering begins. Ensure a pageshow event in that interval prevents the
component from remaining suspended, and add a regression test for that timing.

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printf '%s\n' '--- React/Solid references ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*lazyRouteComponent*' -e 'waitForPageToStay' -e 'retryAfterUnload' -e 'errorState' packages/react-router packages/solid-router || test "$?" -eq 1
printf '%s\n' '--- React/Solid matching source files ---'
for f in packages/react-router/src/lazyRouteComponent.tsx packages/solid-router/src/lazyRouteComponent.tsx; do
  if test -f "$f"; then
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Handle a failed retry through the reload-once path.

If the retry import reports a module-not-found error, load() stores the error in the outer error variable and resolves to null. The mounted continuation then sets component.value to null and ends loading. The render function returns an empty div.

The reload-once check runs only during setup, before the retry starts. Updating errorState alone will not run that check again. Ensure that a failed retry re-enters the reload handling path.

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Review comment at @packages/vue-router/src/lazyRouteComponent.tsx at line 96:
Update the retry continuation around load() so a retry that records a
module-not-found error re-enters the reload-once handling path instead of
resolving to null and leaving component.value empty. Preserve the existing
reload-once guard so the page is not reloaded more than once.

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