Will Tanstack Start support a custom server?

[sacred hawk]

I'm hoping someone can answer the question here: https://github.com/TanStack/router/discussions/3777

Will the move away from Vinxi open up a world where we can use a custom server with Start? Is that in the cards at all?

[vale pawn]

should already be possible with the node preset I suppose?

[proud oar]

I was curious about that and tried a custom nitro preset, while it does work it is just for production build, is not preset for development making it much less useful

[vale pawn]

what do you mean exactly?

none of the presets are for dev

so we would need a different way for the dev server

[proud oar]

I believe @sacred hawk is asking for an equivalent of react-router's createRequestHandler to allow using a customs server both in production and in development like in the react-router-hono-server project by exposing a custom vite dev server (via a vite plugin) to handle MHR and having the same server in dev

Another interesting example is epic stack using react-router 7 vite with and an express server

The simplest is probably https://github.com/remix-run/react-router-templates/tree/main/node-custom-server

[vagrant rampart]

Also curious about this