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Summary

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  • Spot-check docs/overview.md React example
  • Spot-check examples: simple, compiler, standard-schema, query-integration, large-form
  • Confirm no remaining children={ under React examples / overview React snippets

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  • Documentation

    • Updated React form examples to use nested render-prop children for fields and subscriptions.
    • Refreshed examples covering simple, standard-schema, large-form, compiler, and query-integration scenarios.
    • Simplified the Solid subscription example formatting.
    • Applied the updated JSX pattern consistently across address, emergency contact, and contact information examples.
  • Refactor

    • Preserved existing form controls, validation, submission, reset behavior, and state handling while adopting the updated JSX pattern.

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The documentation and React examples now pass render functions as nested JSX children for form.Field, AppField, and form.Subscribe. Existing selectors, field names, labels, controls, and form behavior remain unchanged.

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React children syntax migration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Guide render syntax
docs/overview.md
React examples use nested JSX children for field and subscription render functions. The Solid selector declaration is expanded without changing behavior.
Application example syntax
examples/react/compiler/src/index.tsx, examples/react/simple/src/index.tsx, examples/react/standard-schema/src/index.tsx, examples/react/query-integration/src/app.tsx
form.Field and form.Subscribe callbacks move from explicit children props to nested JSX children. Existing selectors and controls remain unchanged.
Integrated form examples
examples/react/large-form/src/features/people/*
AppField and form.Field callbacks use nested JSX children. Field names and labels remain unchanged.

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Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Change: Other

Suggested reviewers: crutchcorn

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 83d80

The FormGroup documentation examples may fail to parse because their placeholder render callbacks contain only comments; make those callbacks valid TSX before merging.

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Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The PR also reformats the Solid form.Subscribe opening tag in docs/overview.md. The change does not implement the React children syntax objective in #2304 and does not change behavior. This is a… Remove the unrelated Solid form.Subscribe formatting change, or provide a direct requirement that includes it.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: replacing React JSX children props with JSX child syntax in documentation and examples.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The PR addresses #2304 on the alpha branch. It replaces explicit children={...} usage with JSX child render functions in the React documentation and in the listed React examples: simple, `compil…
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The PR also reformats the Solid form.Subscribe opening tag in docs/overview.md. The change does not implement the React children syntax objective in #2304 and does not change behavior. This is an unrelated formatting change.

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Heads up - we're not updating main (v1). Only alpha (v2)

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In `@docs/framework/react/guides/form-groups.md`:
- Around line 31-36: Update the placeholder render callbacks in the
form.FormGroup examples to return valid TSX: replace comment-only parenthesized
bodies with a JSX fragment containing JSX comments or an explicit null return,
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Comment on lines +31 to +36
<form.FormGroup name="step1">
{(group) => (
// `group` here has all of the form-like methods you'd expect like `deleteField` or `insertFieldValue`
// ...
)}
/>
</form.FormGroup>

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Make the placeholder render callbacks valid TSX.

Each callback uses => ( with only // comments inside the parentheses. This produces an empty parenthesized expression and fails to parse as TSX. Wrap the placeholder in a fragment with JSX comments or return null.

Proposed fix
 {(group) => (
-  // `group` here has all of the form-like methods you'd expect
-  // ...
+  <>
+    {/* `group` here has all of the form-like methods you'd expect */}
+    {/* ... */}
+  </>
 )}

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In `@docs/framework/react/guides/form-groups.md` around lines 31 - 36, Update the
placeholder render callbacks in the form.FormGroup examples to return valid TSX:
replace comment-only parenthesized bodies with a JSX fragment containing JSX
comments or an explicit null return, including the additional affected callback
range. Preserve the documented group API examples.

Align React overview docs and examples with JSX children style for
Field/Subscribe render props (fixes TanStack#2304).

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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Thanks — retargeted to alpha and redid the change against v2. Scope is smaller there because most React framework guides already use JSX children; this PR updates the remaining overview snippet + React examples.

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Reopened — closed by mistake. Still pursuing this PR.

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[v2] Use consistent children syntax in React documentation and examples

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