Problem: React Router’s useSearchParams is clunky, and not type safe
Problem: React Router’s useSearchParams is clunky, and not type safe. Values are always returned as strings, and there’s no type-safe protection for writing values.
Two solutions:
1. Wrap React Router’s searchParams in a custom hook that validates params via Zod.
2. Consider Tanstack Router instead. It has a strongly typed search params API with built-in validation support.
How I do 1:
