# frontend-react-router-best-practices

React Router architecture and performance rules for coding agents. Teaches models to write parallel loaders and secure mutation handlers without client waterfalls.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 401 installs · ★ 92
- Author: sergiodxa
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/sergiodxa/agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/frontend-react-router-best-practices/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-02-01
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## What it does

The skill provides 55 rules across 11 categories for modern React Router applications. It moves data fetching out of components and directly into loaders. No `useEffect` data fetching allowed. Heavy routes execute queries concurrently via `Promise.all` and forward `request.signal` to cancel dead requests.

Security and middleware patterns validate route arguments using `zod`. Sessions live in `AsyncLocalStorage`, while `Sec-Fetch` header checks block cross-site mutations. Projects running older router releases without Single Fetch support will hit TypeScript errors on signatures like `Route.LoaderArgs`.

Database and API calls move into colocated `queries.server.ts` files. Per-request caching deduplicates repeated fetches without prop drilling.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add sergiodxa/agent-skills --skill frontend-react-router-best-practices -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/frontend-react-router-best-practices/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/frontend-react-router-best-practices/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add sergiodxa/agent-skills --skill frontend-react-router-best-practices -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/frontend-react-router-best-practices/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add sergiodxa/agent-skills --skill frontend-react-router-best-practices -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/frontend-react-router-best-practices/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install sergiodxa/agent-skills frontend-react-router-best-practices
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/frontend-react-router-best-practices/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add sergiodxa/agent-skills --skill frontend-react-router-best-practices -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/sergiodxa/agent-skills --path skills/frontend-react-router-best-practices
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/frontend-react-router-best-practices/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add sergiodxa/agent-skills --skill frontend-react-router-best-practices -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/sergiodxa/agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/frontend-react-router-best-practices/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- eliminate waterfall data fetching in React components
- run parallel queries in route loaders using `Promise.all`
- validate URL params early with `zod`
- abort cancelled background fetches via `request.signal`
- block cross-site form submissions with `Sec-Fetch` checks

## Example prompts
- Write a typed profile loader that validates the user ID param with zod and fetches data in parallel
- Add session and auth middleware to protect this route hierarchy
- Move all route data loading logic into a colocated queries.server.ts file

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: frontend-react-router-best-practices
description: React Router performance and architecture patterns. Use when writing loaders, actions, forms, routes, or working with React Router data fetching. Triggers on tasks involving React Router routes, data loading, form handling, or route organization.
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# React Router Best Practices

Performance optimization and architecture patterns for React Router applications. Contains 55 rules across 11 categories focused on data loading, actions, forms, streaming, and route organization.

## When to Apply

Reference these guidelines when:

- Writing new React Router routes (loaders, actions)
- Handling forms and mutations
- Implementing streaming with Single Fetch
- Organizing route files and colocating queries
- Setting up authentication patterns
- Adding SEO/meta tags

## Rules Summary

### Data Loading (CRITICAL)

#### loader-avoid-waterfalls - @rules/loader-avoid-waterfalls.md

All data fetching happens in loaders. Never fetch in components with useEffect.

```tsx
// BAD: fetching in component
function Profile() {
  const [user, setUser] = useState(null);
  useEffect(() => {
    fetch("/api/user")
      .then((r) => r.json())
      .then(setUser);
  }, []);
  if (!user) return <Spinner />;
  return <div>{user.name}</div>;
}

// GOOD: fetch in loader
export async function loader({ request }: Route.LoaderArgs) {
  let user = await getUser(request);
  return data({ user });
}

export default function Component() {
  const { user } = useLoaderData<typeof loader>();
  return <div>{user.name}</div>;
}
```

#### loader-parallel-fetch - @rules/loader-parallel-fetch.md

Use Promise.all for parallel data fetching in loaders.

```tsx
import { data } from "react-router";

// Bad: sequential fetches (slow)
export async function loader({ request }: Route.LoaderArgs) {
  let user = await getUser(request);
  let posts = await getPosts(user.id);
  let comments = await getComments(user.id);
  return data({ user, posts, comments });
}

// Good: parallel fetches
export async function loader({ request }: Route.LoaderArgs) {
  let user = await getUser(request);
  let [posts, comments] = await Promise.all([
    getPosts(user.id),
    getComments(user.id),
  ]);
  return data({ user, posts, comments });
}
```

#### loader-request-caching - @rules/loader-request-caching.md

API clients dedupe calls within the same request via context. Fetch in each loader that needs data.

```tsx
// Both loaders can call getUser - cached per request
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