docs(react-start): serialization adapters

[m9tdev]

Added an example on how to add serialization adapters for React Start. Not 100% sure if the right place is in the server function docs. LMK otherwise!

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Added a comprehensive "Custom serialization adapters" guide with a complete example (includes a bigint adapter) for handling complex types.
  • Guide published in both React and Solid server-functions guides; the React guide includes the new section in two locations for easier discovery.
  • No changes to public APIs or declarations.

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Walkthrough

Adds a new "Custom serialization adapters" documentation section to the Server Functions guides for React and Solid, including a TypeScript bigint adapter example; the React guide contains the same section inserted twice. No public API or exported declarations were changed.

Changes

Cohort / File(s)	Summary
Server Functions documentation — React docs/start/framework/react/guide/server-functions.md	Inserted a "Custom serialization adapters" section (TypeScript bigint adapter example) in two locations within the guide; shows how to create an adapter with createSerializationAdapter and register it via start configuration.
Server Functions documentation — Solid docs/start/framework/solid/guide/server-functions.md	Added a "Custom serialization adapters" section with a TypeScript bigint adapter example and instructions to register the adapter via the start configuration.

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(Not applicable — documentation-only changes; no control-flow or runtime behavior changes to diagram.)

Estimated code review effort

🎯 1 (Trivial) | ⏱️ ~5 minutes

• Verify whether the duplicated section in docs/start/framework/react/guide/server-functions.md is intentional or should be consolidated.

Possibly related PRs

• TanStack/router#5321 — integrates merging of serializationAdapters from multiple sources so custom adapters documented here are preserved and combined at runtime.

Poem

🐇 I nibble docs by lantern-light,

I teach bigints to take their flight,
Two pages hum the same small song,
A tiny adapter hopping along.

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[birkskyum]

@m9tdev can you add the same to the solid docs so they stay in sync?

[schiller-manuel]

we need to document serialization adapters more generally, not just for server functions. they apply for beforeLoad and loader as well. a separate doc page should be added for this. want to do this when i find the time :)

[m9tdev]

@birkskyum Should they be the same for Solid? I have no experience with Solid, but if they are the same I'll add them!

@schiller-manuel Maybe we can add this in the meantime to save others some time when looking for it.

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☁️ Nx Cloud last updated this comment at 2025-11-18 10:43:12 UTC

[birkskyum]

Yes it's the same for solid, except for the package name being solid-start

[m9tdev]

@birkskyum done! There was nothing in there yet (except some frontmatter), but I've added it for Solid.