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  • Add a dedicated Error Handling guide covering route-level error components, router defaults, beforeLoad and loader errors, and recovery with router.invalidate().
  • Link to the existing Data Loading and Not Found Errors guides.
  • Add the guide to the Router documentation navigation.

Fixes #1059.

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📝 Walkthrough

Adds a Router error-handling guide and a link to it in the Router Configuration navigation. The guide covers error components, error observation, route-loading failures, and recovery.

Changes: Router Error Handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Error-handling guide and navigation
docs/router/guide/error-handling.md, docs/router/config.json
Adds guidance on route-level and router-wide error components, error observation, and route-loading recovery. Adds a navigation link to the guide.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~8 minutes

Change: Other

Suggested reviewers: ladybluenotes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 8c987

The guide distinguishes rendering retries from reloading failed route data, and no unresolved merge risk was identified.

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Hi! Just checking in on my documentation PR #8730, which addresses the error-handling scope discussed in TanStack/tanstack.com#1059. I noticed that some workflows are awaiting maintainer approval. Please let me know if anything else is needed from my side. Thanks for your time!

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