feat(router-core): scope staticData typing by route-id prefix

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Motivation

StaticDataRouteOption types staticData identically for every route in an app. That works for globally uniform metadata, but breaks down when different sections of the route tree carry different static data shapes — the common case being pathless layout routes where each layout family (/_sidebar, /_details, …) declares its own page-chrome configuration and child routes override pieces of it.

Today the only options are typing the union of all shapes globally (losing per-section safety) or casting at every call site. This PR adds an opt-in, augmentable registry that types staticData per route-id prefix:

declare module '@tanstack/react-router' {
  interface StaticDataByRoutePrefix {
    '/_sidebar': SidebarPageConfig
    '/_details': DetailsPageConfig
  }
}

Every route whose id is the prefix itself or starts with `${prefix}/` gets staticData typed as the registered shape; a route under /_sidebar type-errors if it declares another section's shape. Routes matching no prefix keep the existing StaticDataRouteOption behavior unchanged.

Changes

• router-core/src/route.ts
  • New augmentable StaticDataByRoutePrefix interface (empty by default).
  • New StaticDataByRouteId<TRouteId>: maps a route id to its registered prefix shape, falling back to StaticDataRouteOption.
  • New UpdatableStaticRouteOptionByRouteId<TRouteId>: evaluates to { staticData?: <prefix shape> } when a prefix matches, and to the plain UpdatableStaticRouteOption otherwise.
  • UpdatableRouteOptions is split: everything except staticData now lives in UpdatableRouteOptionsWithoutStaticData, and UpdatableRouteOptions (public shape unchanged) extends it together with UpdatableStaticRouteOption.
• router-core/src/route.ts (RouteOptions): intersects UpdatableRouteOptionsWithoutStaticData with UpdatableStaticRouteOptionByRouteId<NoInfer<TId>>, so code-based createRoute types staticData entirely from the route id.
• router-core/src/route.ts (Route.update()): both the interface and BaseRoute implementation use the same UpdatableRouteOptionsWithoutStaticData & UpdatableStaticRouteOptionByRouteId<TId> combination, so post-creation updates are prefix-typed too.
• router-core/src/fileRoute.ts (FileRouteOptions): converted from an interface extending its parts to an equivalent intersection type so it can include UpdatableStaticRouteOptionByRouteId<TId> (interfaces cannot extend conditional types); it uses the same without-staticData + by-route-id combination.
• react-router/solid-router/vue-router src/fileRoute.ts: each framework's createFileRoute returns the (deprecated) FileRoute.createRoute signature rather than router-core's FileRouteOptions, so it previously bypassed the registry by intersecting the full UpdatableRouteOptions. It now uses the same UpdatableRouteOptionsWithoutStaticData & UpdatableStaticRouteOptionByRouteId<TId> combination, making file-based routes prefix-typed too.
• Exports: StaticDataByRoutePrefix, StaticDataByRouteId, UpdatableStaticRouteOptionByRouteId, and UpdatableRouteOptionsWithoutStaticData re-exported from router-core, react-router, solid-router, and vue-router.
• Docs: new "Scoping Static Data by Route Prefix" section in docs/router/guide/static-route-data.md, covering the registry, replacement semantics, overlapping-prefix semantics, and the StaticDataByRouteId lookup helper.
• Tests: staticDataByRoutePrefix.test-d.tsx in both react-router and solid-router covers prefix matching (including whole-segment matching), overlapping prefixes, the StaticDataRouteOption fallback (for options and update()), wrong-shape rejection, optional presence, and that a matching prefix narrows staticData to exactly the registered shape (replacement, not intersection) for createRoute, createFileRoute, and Route.update().

Design notes

• Fully backward compatible. With no registry entries, UpdatableStaticRouteOptionByRouteId evaluates to the plain UpdatableStaticRouteOption, so every route keeps exactly the existing behavior — including the documented "Enforcing Static Data" pattern (required staticData when StaticDataRouteOption is augmented with required members).
• A matching prefix replaces the global static data option. On routes under a registered prefix, staticData is optional and typed as exactly the registered shape; a StaticDataRouteOption augmentation no longer constrains it there, and a required-member augmentation no longer forces staticData presence on those routes. Routes outside every prefix are untouched and keep presence enforcement.
• Prefix-scoped staticData is optional to declare by design, even when the registered shape has required properties: the registry constrains the shape where staticData is provided, not its presence. This supports the layout-route pattern where the pathless route declares defaults and children override selectively.
• Prefixes match whole path segments only: /_sidebar matches /_sidebar and /_sidebar/home, but not /_sidebarextra.
• Overlapping prefixes union their shapes: a route under both /_sidebar and /_sidebar/settings accepts either registered shape. Pinned by type tests and documented.
• Non-literal route ids are typed permissively once a prefix is registered. Wide instantiations like AnyRoute (TId = any/string) span prefixed routes (optional, prefix-shaped staticData) and unprefixed routes (possibly required global staticData) at once, so UpdatableStaticRouteOptionByRouteId widens non-literal ids to { staticData?: any }. The Route interface additionally declares update method-style so its parameter relates bivariantly. Together these keep every route assignable to AnyRoute, including when StaticDataRouteOption is augmented with required members.
• The combination of a required-member StaticDataRouteOption augmentation with a registered prefix is intentionally not covered by a type test: that augmentation is project-global within a package's shared test tsconfig, so required staticData would leak into every other test file. The type tests instead pin that a prefixed route types staticData as exactly the registered shape (with no StaticDataRouteOption intersection), and the required-presence lift follows from UpdatableStaticRouteOptionByRouteId selecting the prefix branch instead of UpdatableStaticRouteOption.

Validation

• pnpm --filter @tanstack/router-core test:types, ... react-router test:types, and ... solid-router test:types — pass on all supported TS versions (5.6 through 7.0).
• Vitest type tests (vitest run .test-d) — pass in full for react-router, solid-router, and vue-router, including the new staticDataByRoutePrefix suites.
• react-router, solid-router, and vue-router builds — pass.
• Verified in a standalone tsc --noEmit scenario (TS 5.6–7.0) that with a required-member StaticDataRouteOption augmentation plus a registered prefix: a prefixed route id yields optional staticData of exactly the prefix shape for both createRoute and createFileRoute, an unprefixed id keeps the required global shape, and both kinds of route remain assignable to AnyRoute.
• The pattern is battle-tested: we run it in production as a pnpm patch against @tanstack/router-core to type per-layout page configuration across ~40 routes.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added route-prefix-based typing for staticData, supporting exact matches, nested routes, overlapping prefixes, optional data, and fallback behavior.
  • Exposed new static-data route types across React, Solid, Vue, and core router packages.
  • Applied route-specific static-data constraints when creating and updating routes.

• Documentation

  • Added guidance for configuring and looking up route-prefix static data.

• Tests

  • Added compile-time coverage for prefix matching, unions, nested routes, boundaries, fallbacks, and update behavior.

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Adds prefix-based static data typing for route IDs. The change updates route and file-route option types, exports the new types from router packages, adds React and Solid type tests, and documents registration, matching, fallback, and lookup behavior.

Changes

Route-prefix static data typing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Prefix static data contracts packages/router-core/src/route.ts, packages/router-core/src/index.ts	Adds prefix matching, route-ID lookup types, fallback behavior, non-literal route-ID handling, and constraints for route creation and updates.
File routes and package exports packages/router-core/src/fileRoute.ts, packages/react-router/src/fileRoute.ts, packages/solid-router/src/fileRoute.ts, packages/vue-router/src/fileRoute.ts, packages/*-router/src/index.tsx	Applies route-ID-specific static data constraints to file routes and exports the related types from React, Solid, and Vue packages.
Type tests and documentation packages/react-router/tests/staticDataByRoutePrefix.test-d.tsx, packages/solid-router/tests/staticDataByRoutePrefix.test-d.tsx, docs/router/guide/static-route-data.md	Tests prefix matching, overlapping prefixes, segment boundaries, optional data, updates, fallbacks, non-literal IDs, and code-based and file-based routes. Documents registration and StaticDataByRouteId lookup.

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