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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)

Nested routes and dynamic routing

The earlier versions of React-Router required the routes to be defined upfront, and the child routes to be nested inside another route, as seen here:

<Router>
<Route path='/' component={Container}>
<IndexRoute component={Home} />
<Route path='user' component={User}>
<IndexRoute component={Twitter} />
<Route path='instagram' component={Instagram} />
</Route>
</Route>
</Router>

This code can be considered static routing, wherein the route configuration is required by the library when the application initializes. Here, the route with the '/' path serves as the parent of all the routes, and the route with the 'user' path is a child route of '/', and a parent route for the route with the ...