Latest React Router Release Improves Middleware API

React Router v7.8.0 is out. TNS readers will recall that React Router is basically the Remix framework now.

The recent update improves API consistency, moves middleware closer to stabilization and — of course — there are bug fixes, according to the Remix newsletter.

New features included the addition of consistent loaderData naming.

“We’ve addressed those annoying discrepancies in loader data values across the framework,” the newsletter stated.

Previously, in components, React Router referred to the data from the loader as…