Yep, declarative mode is what I use, tried the data mode with loaders and it never really agreed with me as a pattern.

I'm using the React Router v7 in framework mode, fetching data directly from the database in server-side components. So far, it works reasonably well as long as we avoid mixing server code with client components. However, although it offers the convenience of writing frontend and backend code together, the mental burden added by this approach makes me feel it is not worth it more and more often.

> Also doesn't have react router v5's route-string typescript parsing.

It does, assuming you're talking about automatically parsing "/foo/:id" and getting a typed "{ id: string? }" route params object out of it? Wouter does that when using typescript.