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The @payloadcms/ui package no longer depends on next directly.

This PR establishes a pattern to replace the admin panel's router with your own. This way you can power the admin panel with alternative React frameworks than Next.js, e.g. TanStack.

A few key takeaways:

  1. Removes the next package from peerDependencies within the @payloadcms/ui package. Does so by providing a new router adapter context that allow for the entire routing layer to be swapped out (see next bullet).

  2. Creates a new RouterAdapter component that abstracts away all next/navigation usages within the @payloadcms/ui package. All frameworks will need to supply their own router's methods to the adapter.

    Here's what the @payloadcms/next adapter might look like (simplified):

    // Next.js router adapter (simplified):
    import { useRouter as useNextRouter, usePathname as useNextPathname } from 'next/navigation'
    
    const NextRouterAdapter: RouterAdapterComponent = ({ children }) => {
      const router = useNextRouter()
      const pathname = useNextPathname()
    
      return (
        <RouterAdapterContext value={{ router, pathname, ... }}>
          {children}
        </RouterAdapterContext>
      )
    }

    All router methods are now standardized behind shared hooks that can be used within any framework:

    import {
      useRouter,
      usePathname,
      useSearchParams,
      useParams
    } from '@payloadcms/ui'
  3. Removes all deprecated Link props:

    import { Button } from '@payloadcms/ui'
    - import NextLink from 'next/link'
    
    export const MyButton = () => {
      return (
        <Button
    -     Link={NextLink}   
        >
          Click Me
        </Button>
      )
    }   

    The Link component introduced in feat: route transitions #9275 is already router agnostic. Payload has long standardized around this component, which eliminates any need to import from next/link directly:

    import { Link } from '@payloadcms/ui'
    
    const MyComponent = () => {
      return (
        <Link href="/somewhere">
          Go Somewhere
        </Link>
      )
    }

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Groups framework adapter implementations under packages/next/src/adapters/
instead of mixing them into elements/ (UI primitives) and utilities/ (misc
helpers). The Next adapter is neither — it bridges next/navigation into the
RouterAdapterContext contract from payload core. Sets up the structure for
the upcoming ServerAdapter to live alongside as adapters/server.ts.
Separates router contracts from cookie contracts:
- adapters/router.ts: RouterAdapterComponent, RouterAdapterRouter, LinkAdapterProps
- adapters/cookies.ts: CookieStore, CookieOptions
- adapters/index.ts: barrel re-export

Makes room for ServerAdapter to land as adapters/server.ts on its own
branch without re-mingling concerns in a single file.
@jacobsfletch jacobsfletch marked this pull request as ready for review May 28, 2026 13:46
@jacobsfletch jacobsfletch merged commit db6ae20 into main May 28, 2026
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jacobsfletch added a commit that referenced this pull request May 29, 2026
Requires #16763 and #16753.

Moves all elements and templates defined in the `@payloadcms/next`
package to `@payloadcms/ui`. This is in effort to convert the
`@payloadcms/next` package into a framework adapter.

**Relocated exports** — code physically moved from `@payloadcms/next` to
`@payloadcms/ui`:

| Component | Old source | New source |
| -------------------------- | ----------------------------- |
---------------------- |
| `DefaultTemplate` | `@payloadcms/next/templates` |
`@payloadcms/ui/rsc` |
| `DefaultTemplateProps` | `@payloadcms/next/templates` |
`@payloadcms/ui/rsc` |
| `MinimalTemplate` | `@payloadcms/next/templates` |
`@payloadcms/ui/rsc` |
| `MinimalTemplateProps` | `@payloadcms/next/templates` |
`@payloadcms/ui/rsc` |
| `DocumentHeader` | `@payloadcms/next/rsc` | `@payloadcms/ui/rsc` |
| `DefaultNav` | `@payloadcms/next/rsc` | `@payloadcms/ui/rsc` |
| `Logo` | `@payloadcms/next/rsc` | `@payloadcms/ui/rsc` |
| `HierarchyTypeFieldServer` | `@payloadcms/next/rsc` |
`@payloadcms/ui/rsc` |
| `DefaultNavClient` | `@payloadcms/next/client` | `@payloadcms/ui` |
| `HierarchyTypeField` | `@payloadcms/next/client` | `@payloadcms/ui` |
| `NavSidebarToggle` | `@payloadcms/next/client` | `@payloadcms/ui` |
| `NavWrapper` | `@payloadcms/next/client` | `@payloadcms/ui` |

This PR also removes the now unneeded export aliases. These were in
place for backwards compatibility during v3. Now, we enforce that all
imports point to its canonical source, not the aliased export.

| Component | Old source | New source |
| -------------------------- | ------------------------- |
--------------------- |
| `CollectionCards` | `@payloadcms/next/rsc` | `@payloadcms/ui/rsc` |
| `SlugField` | `@payloadcms/next/client` | `@payloadcms/ui` |
| `QueryPresetsAccessCell` | `@payloadcms/next/client` |
`@payloadcms/ui` |
| `QueryPresetsColumnField` | `@payloadcms/next/client` |
`@payloadcms/ui` |
| `QueryPresetsColumnsCell` | `@payloadcms/next/client` |
`@payloadcms/ui` |
| `QueryPresetsGroupByCell` | `@payloadcms/next/client` |
`@payloadcms/ui` |
| `QueryPresetsGroupByField` | `@payloadcms/next/client` |
`@payloadcms/ui` |
| `QueryPresetsWhereCell` | `@payloadcms/next/client` | `@payloadcms/ui`
|
| `QueryPresetsWhereField` | `@payloadcms/next/client` |
`@payloadcms/ui` |

The `./client`, `./rsc`, and `./templates` subpath exports on
`@payloadcms/next` are removed entirely.

#### Codemod

To migrate automatically, there's a codemod for this change available by
running:

```bash
npx @payloadcms/codemod --transform migrate-next-subpath-exports
```
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