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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.
  • Refactor

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

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

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 condensed 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.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to b67ac

The PR is otherwise a localized JSX-syntax cleanup, but the current head still contains FormGroup examples with placeholder-only parenthesized arrow bodies that do not parse as TSX. Those examples should be corrected before merge so users are not given invalid copyable code.

Suggested reviewers: lecarbonator, crutchcorn

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2

❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The PR also reformats a Solid form.Subscribe opening tag, which is outside the linked issue's React documentation and examples scope. Remove the unrelated Solid formatting change or document a separate requirement that justifies including it.
Description check ⚠️ Warning The description explains the changes and test plan but omits the required checklist and release impact sections. Add the required Checklist and Release Impact sections, including the applicable checked items.
✅ Passed checks (3 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes apply JSX children consistently across the specified React documentation and examples for issue #2304.
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring check was indeterminate for this PR — some files could not be analyzed in time. Not blocking.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: replacing React children props with JSX children.
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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 */}
+    {/* ... */}
+  </>
 )}

Also applies to: 57-82

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

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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