refactor(start): update app directory handling in defineConfig function

[logan-anderson]

Fixes #2600

How to test In router/examples/react/start-basic

• Move app into src/app
• update app.config.ts to look like

import { defineConfig } from '@tanstack/start/config'
import tsConfigPaths from 'vite-tsconfig-paths'

export default defineConfig({
  tsr: {
    appDirectory: './src/app',
  },
  vite: {
    plugins: [
      tsConfigPaths({
        projects: ['./tsconfig.json'],
      }),
    ],
  },
})

• update tsconfig.json

{
...
    "paths": {
-      "~/*": ["./app/*"]
+      "~/*": ["./src/app/*"]
    },

}

• run the app and see that everything works

[schiller-manuel]

Thanks for taking this on!
Can you please modify one of the e2e/start tests to use this custom config so we actually test it?

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commit: 63b81b1

[SeanCassiere]

Looks good!

Edit: Perhaps, instead of changing one of the existing examples, instead, just create a simple new e2e example with a couple of pages which use a server function.

[logan-anderson]

Added a new test project as per @SeanCassiere suggestion