# X_ROUTE_UNNORMALIZED

## Means

a route was registered without `defineRoute`

## Typical cause

`registerRoute({ config })` was handed the author's own object, so `meta` and `budget` were never normalized and every descriptor reader would read them wrong

## Fix

wrap it: `registerRoute({ file, config: defineRoute({ … }) })`

[Routes, render and budgets](/error-codes#routes-render-and-budgets)