diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-types/src/index.d.ts b/packages/docusaurus-types/src/index.d.ts
index cead1c6ed2..7d86042aee 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-types/src/index.d.ts
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-types/src/index.d.ts
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import type {ParsedUrlQueryInput} from 'querystring';
 import type Joi from 'joi';
 import type {Overwrite, DeepPartial} from 'utility-types';
 import type {Location} from 'history';
+import type Loadable from 'react-loadable';
 
 export type ReportingSeverity = 'ignore' | 'log' | 'warn' | 'error' | 'throw';
 
@@ -378,8 +379,7 @@ export interface RouteConfig {
 
 export type Route = {
   readonly path: string;
-  // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
-  readonly component: any;
+  readonly component: ReturnType<typeof Loadable>;
   readonly exact?: boolean;
   readonly routes?: Route[];
 };
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus/src/server/brokenLinks.ts b/packages/docusaurus/src/server/brokenLinks.ts
index 8407205b19..a085135a98 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus/src/server/brokenLinks.ts
+++ b/packages/docusaurus/src/server/brokenLinks.ts
@@ -5,10 +5,7 @@
  * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
  */
 
-import {
-  matchRoutes,
-  type RouteConfig as RRRouteConfig,
-} from 'react-router-config';
+import {matchRoutes} from 'react-router-config';
 import fs from 'fs-extra';
 import _ from 'lodash';
 import type {RouteConfig, ReportingSeverity} from '@docusaurus/types';
@@ -23,11 +20,6 @@ import path from 'path';
 import combinePromises from 'combine-promises';
 import logger from '@docusaurus/logger';
 
-function toReactRouterRoutes(routes: RouteConfig[]): RRRouteConfig[] {
-  // @ts-expect-error: types incompatible???
-  return routes as RRRouteConfig[];
-}
-
 type BrokenLink = {
   link: string;
   resolvedLink: string;
@@ -47,10 +39,9 @@ function getPageBrokenLinks({
   pageLinks: string[];
   routes: RouteConfig[];
 }): BrokenLink[] {
-  // ReactRouter is able to support links like ./../somePath
-  // but matchRoutes does not do this resolving internally
-  // we must resolve the links before using matchRoutes
-  // resolvePathname is used internally by ReactRouter
+  // ReactRouter is able to support links like ./../somePath but `matchRoutes`
+  // does not do this resolution internally. We must resolve the links before
+  // using `matchRoutes`. `resolvePathname` is used internally by React Router
   function resolveLink(link: string) {
     const resolvedLink = resolvePathname(onlyPathname(link), pagePath);
     return {link, resolvedLink};
@@ -58,7 +49,10 @@ function getPageBrokenLinks({
 
   function isBrokenLink(link: string) {
     const matchedRoutes = [link, decodeURI(link)]
-      .map((l) => matchRoutes(toReactRouterRoutes(routes), l))
+      // @ts-expect-error: React router types RouteConfig with an actual React
+      // component, but we load route components with string paths.
+      // We don't actually access component here, so it's fine.
+      .map((l) => matchRoutes(routes, l))
       .reduce((prev, cur) => prev.concat(cur));
     return matchedRoutes.length === 0;
   }
@@ -69,8 +63,8 @@ function getPageBrokenLinks({
 /**
  * The route defs can be recursive, and have a parent match-all route. We don't
  * want to match broken links like /docs/brokenLink against /docs/*. For this
- * reason, we only consider the "final routes", that do not have subroutes.
- * We also need to remove the match all 404 route
+ * reason, we only consider the "final routes" that do not have subroutes.
+ * We also need to remove the match-all 404 route
  */
 function filterIntermediateRoutes(routesInput: RouteConfig[]): RouteConfig[] {
   const routesWithout404 = routesInput.filter((route) => route.path !== '*');
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus/src/server/routes.ts b/packages/docusaurus/src/server/routes.ts
index c2105c07ce..ba5508bfd9 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus/src/server/routes.ts
+++ b/packages/docusaurus/src/server/routes.ts
@@ -119,28 +119,18 @@ function getModulePath(target: Module): string {
   return `${target.path}${queryStr}`;
 }
 
-type LoadedRoutes = {
-  registry: {
-    [chunkName: string]: ChunkRegistry;
-  };
-  routesConfig: string;
-  routesChunkNames: {
-    [routePath: string]: ChunkNames;
-  };
-  routesPaths: string[];
-};
-
 export default async function loadRoutes(
   pluginsRouteConfigs: RouteConfig[],
   baseUrl: string,
-): Promise<LoadedRoutes> {
-  const registry: {
-    [chunkName: string]: ChunkRegistry;
-  } = {};
+): Promise<{
+  registry: {[chunkName: string]: ChunkRegistry};
+  routesConfig: string;
+  routesChunkNames: {[routePath: string]: ChunkNames};
+  routesPaths: string[];
+}> {
+  const registry: {[chunkName: string]: ChunkRegistry} = {};
   const routesPaths: string[] = [normalizeUrl([baseUrl, '404.html'])];
-  const routesChunkNames: {
-    [routePath: string]: ChunkNames;
-  } = {};
+  const routesChunkNames: {[routePath: string]: ChunkNames} = {};
 
   // This is the higher level overview of route code generation.
   function generateRouteCode(routeConfig: RouteConfig): string {
@@ -254,10 +244,7 @@ function genRouteChunkNames(
       modulePath,
     )}')`;
 
-    registry[chunkName] = {
-      loader,
-      modulePath,
-    };
+    registry[chunkName] = {loader, modulePath};
     return chunkName;
   }