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🎯 Changes

Why the change

Browser projects can use the public header declarations without installing Node types while retaining support for Node HTTP and HTTP/2 headers.

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  • This changes only the TypeScript header shape; header merging and accepted values stay the same.
  • TypeScript 5.9.3 reproduces the missing node:http2 error with types: []; the patch passes with zero Node declarations, preserves HTTP and HTTP/2 assignability, and passes focused ESLint checks.
  • AI-assisted implementation and tests, reviewed against the existing header shape; the full repository suite was not run.

Change outline

 AnyHeaders
-  OutgoingHttpHeaders imported from node:http2
+  Record<string, string | number | Array<string> | undefined>

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved compatibility for server-rendering header types in browser projects that do not include Node.js types.
    • Header inputs continue to support common outgoing HTTP values, including numeric values, arrays of strings, and undefined.
    • Node HTTP and HTTP/2 outgoing header types remain accepted by header merging.

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Latest commit: f111e16

The changes in this PR will be included in the next version bump.

This PR includes changesets to release 23 packages
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AnyHeaders replaces its Node-specific header type with a record that accepts strings, numbers, string arrays, and undefined. Type-level tests check compatibility with Node HTTP and HTTP/2 headers and verify accepted values. A patch changeset records the declaration change.

Changes: Portable SSR header types

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Header type and validation
packages/router-core/src/ssr/headers.ts, packages/router-core/tests/headers.test-d.ts, .changeset/portable-client-header-declarations.md
AnyHeaders now uses a portable record type. Type-level assertions cover Node HTTP and HTTP/2 header types and values including numbers, string arrays, strings, and undefined. A patch changeset records the update.

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Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: tannerlinsley, lachlancollins

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The header declaration now uses portable types. A no-Node-types regression test would better protect that behavior, but no current compilation failure was established, so the identified merge risk is minimal.

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import { describe, expectTypeOf, it } from 'vitest'
import type { OutgoingHttpHeaders as HttpHeaders } from 'node:http'
import type { OutgoingHttpHeaders as Http2Headers } from 'node:http2'
import type { AnyHeaders, mergeHeaders } from '../src/ssr/headers'

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P1 Badge Test the browser-only public declaration

This test does not reproduce the portability failure: packages/router-core/tsconfig.json supplies Node types, the test imports both Node header modules, and line 4 bypasses the published @tanstack/router-core/ssr/client declaration. Consequently the old node:http2 reference does not fail here, so this is not a regression test for browser consumers with types: []; add a fixture that compiles the public declaration under that configuration.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L10-L10

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🧹 Nitpick comments: 1
packages/router-core/tests/headers.test-d.ts: 1

6-24: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a no-Node type test for the public client entrypoint.

This test uses types: ["node"], imports Node declarations directly, and imports AnyHeaders from the internal headers module. If AnyHeaders regains its node:http2 dependency, these assertions can still pass while a browser consumer cannot import @tanstack/router-core/ssr/client.

Add a separate type-test configuration with types: []. Its fixture should import mergeHeaders from ../src/ssr/client, and the configuration must run from test:types.

Suggested fix
--- a/packages/router-core/package.json
+++ b/packages/router-core/package.json
@@
-    "test:types": "pnpm run \"/^test:types:ts[0-9]{2}$/\"",
+    "test:types": "pnpm run \"/^test:types:ts[0-9]{2}$/\" && pnpm run test:types:browser",
+    "test:types:browser": "tsc -p tests/tsconfig.browser.json",
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/router-core/tests/headers.browser.test-d.ts
@@
+import type { mergeHeaders } from '../src/ssr/client'
+
+type BrowserHeaders = Parameters<typeof mergeHeaders>[number]
+
+const browserHeaders: BrowserHeaders = {
+  'content-length': 123,
+  'set-cookie': ['first=1', 'second=2'],
+  'x-value': 'value',
+  'x-absent': undefined,
+}
+
+void browserHeaders
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/router-core/tests/tsconfig.browser.json
@@
+{
+  "extends": "../tsconfig.json",
+  "compilerOptions": {
+    "types": [],
+    "noEmit": true
+  },
+  "include": ["./headers.browser.test-d.ts"]
+}
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Review comment at @packages/router-core/tests/headers.test-d.ts around lines 6 -
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Add a separate browser type test that imports `mergeHeaders` from the public
`../src/ssr/client` entrypoint and validates portable header values with Node
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from the public `../src/ssr/client` entrypoint and validates portable header
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