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React Router Quick Start Guide

By : Sagar Ganatra
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React Router Quick Start Guide

By: Sagar Ganatra

Overview of this book

React Router is the routing library for React, and it can be used in both React Web and React Native applications. This book is a simple way to get started with React Router and harness its full power for your applications. The book starts with an introduction to React Router and teaches you how to create your first route using the React component. You will then learn about configuring your routes, passing parameters, and creating nested routes. You will be introduced to various components in React-Router and learn different configuration options available for these components. You will then see how to use the Redirect and Switch components. For even greater ?exibility, you will learn about BrowserRouter, HashRouter, NativeRouter, and StaticRouter. By the end of the book, you will have set up a project with React Router and make routing configuration work in a server-side rendered React application, a mobile application built with React Native and also understand how Redux and React-Router can be used in the same application.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Configuring Routes - Using Various Options in the Route Component

React-Router allows you to declaratively define routes using the <Route> component. It's the main building block of React-Router, and renders the component mentioned in the component prop when the path value mentioned in the path prop matches the browser's URL location. The <Route> component, like any other React component, accepts a set of props. These props provide more granular control over how the browser's URL path should match the <Route> component's path, and a couple of other rendering options as well.

In the previous chapter, we briefly saw how a <Route> component is used to match the URL path and render a component. In this chapter, we will take a look at the following:

  • A deep dive into various props that can be added to a <Route> component, such as exact...