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It's not entirely clear that if TanStack Query is used with the Start integration, wrapping server functions isn't required since the integration set up callbacks on the query and mutation caches to handle redirects anyway.

This updates the docs in a few places to make it more clear.

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    • With the SSR Query integration installed, server functions can be called directly from TanStack Query query and mutation functions without wrapping them in useServerFn.
    • Errors and redirects from these calls are handled by the integration.
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    • Updated the server-functions, TanStack Query, and redirect guides, along with the preferences example, to reflect this usage.

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The documentation explains when TanStack Query functions can call server functions without useServerFn. The React example now calls its mutation server function directly.

Changes: Server functions in TanStack Query

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Document and demonstrate direct calls
docs/router/integrations/query.md, docs/start/framework/react/guide/server-functions.md, docs/start/framework/react/guide/tanstack-query.md, examples/react/start-basic-react-query/src/routes/preferences.tsx
The guides describe direct server-function calls from query and mutation functions with the SSR Query integration, including automatic handling of errors, redirects, and not-found responses. The example passes saveReaderName directly to the mutation function.

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The documentation may mislead developers about redirect handling when it is disabled and about automatic not-found handling. Clarify those cases and settle the cross-section link convention; these are bounded documentation risks rather than a demonstrated runtime regression.

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Review comments at @docs/router/integrations/query.md:
- Line 219: Update the server-functions link in the query and mutation
documentation to use the appropriate relative path instead of the absolute
`/start/latest/...` path. Keep the existing link text and destination unchanged.

Review comments at @docs/start/framework/react/guide/server-functions.md:
- Around line 96-98: Update the note about `useServerFn` to clarify that server
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- Around line 96-98: Update both added documentation links in the
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## Redirect handling

If a query or mutation throws a `redirect(...)`, the integration intercepts it on the client and performs a router navigation.
If a query or mutation throws a `redirect(...)`, the integration intercepts it on the client and performs a router navigation. You do not need to individually wrap [server functions](/start/latest/docs/framework/react/guide/server-functions) in `useServerFn` if they are called in a `queryFn` or `mutationFn`.

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this is the router docs, whereas useServerFn is from start. this crossover is a bit unfortunate here, maybe we should instead document the query integration in start separately?

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🟡 Minor · Qualify the note for handleRedirects: false. · server-functions.md:96-98

docs/start/framework/react/guide/server-functions.md:96-98
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Qualify the note for handleRedirects: false.

When handleRedirects is false, the integration does not install its redirect handlers. A direct server-function call can then reject with a redirect without the integration navigating. useServerFn handles that redirect, or callers can add another redirect handler. Limit the no-wrap guidance to configurations where redirect handling is enabled.

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 > [!NOTE]
-> If you use TanStack Query with the `@tanstack/react-router-ssr-query` integration package, wrapping server functions called in `queryFn` or `mutationFn` with `useServerFn` is not required. See the [Query integration guide](/router/latest/docs/integrations/query#redirect-handling) for more details.
+> If you use TanStack Query with the `@tanstack/react-router-ssr-query` integration package and `handleRedirects` is enabled (the default), wrapping server functions called in `queryFn` or `mutationFn` with `useServerFn` is not required for redirect handling. If you disable `handleRedirects`, add explicit redirect handling, such as wrapping the server function with `useServerFn`. See the [Query integration guide](/router/latest/docs/integrations/query#redirect-handling) for more details.
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Update the note in the server-functions guide to limit the no-wrap guidance to
configurations where `handleRedirects` is enabled, noting that this is the
default. Explain that when it is disabled, callers need explicit redirect
handling, such as wrapping the server function with `useServerFn`, and retain
the Query integration guide reference.
🟡 Minor · Limit the integration claim to redirect handling. · server-functions.md:263

docs/start/framework/react/guide/server-functions.md:263
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Limit the integration claim to redirect handling.

The integration’s query and mutation cache callbacks intercept redirects and forward other errors to existing cache callbacks. A direct server-function call can throw a not-found response, but the integration does not convert it into Router not-found handling. A route lifecycle can handle a not-found response separately if it receives the error.

Suggested fix
-Server functions can throw errors, redirects, and not-found responses that are handled automatically when called from route lifecycles, components using `useServerFn()`, or inside TanStack Query `queryFn` and `mutationFn` functions when the [`@tanstack/react-router-ssr-query` integration package](/router/latest/docs/integrations/query) is used.
+Server functions can throw errors, redirects, and not-found responses that are handled automatically when called from route lifecycles or components using `useServerFn()`. When the [`@tanstack/react-router-ssr-query` integration package](/router/latest/docs/integrations/query) is used with `handleRedirects` enabled, redirects thrown by server functions called inside TanStack Query `queryFn` and `mutationFn` functions are intercepted on the client and trigger router navigation.
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Review comment at @docs/start/framework/react/guide/server-functions.md at line
263:
Update the server-functions documentation sentence to distinguish automatic
handling in route lifecycles and components using useServerFn() from TanStack
Query integration behavior. Limit the integration claim to client-side
interception and router navigation for redirects when handleRedirects is
enabled; do not imply that queryFn or mutationFn calls convert not-found
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- Around line 96-98: Update the note in the server-functions guide to limit the
no-wrap guidance to configurations where `handleRedirects` is enabled, noting
that this is the default. Explain that when it is disabled, callers need
explicit redirect handling, such as wrapping the server function with
`useServerFn`, and retain the Query integration guide reference.
- Line 263: Update the server-functions documentation sentence to distinguish
automatic handling in route lifecycles and components using useServerFn() from
TanStack Query integration behavior. Limit the integration claim to client-side
interception and router navigation for redirects when handleRedirects is
enabled; do not imply that queryFn or mutationFn calls convert not-found
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