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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)

Using the Redirect and Switch Components

Redirecting the user from one route to the other can be achieved using React-Router's <Redirect> component. In traditional websites, where pages are rendered on the server side, the web server hosting the application is configured with rewrite rules that redirect the user to a different URL. This redirection could be used when the content has moved to a new page, and in cases where certain pages of the site are still under construction. HTTP redirection is an expensive operation and thus the application's performance is also affected.

In single–page application (SPA), the redirection occurs on the browser, where the user is redirected to a different route based on a certain condition. This redirection is faster, since there's no HTTP roundtrip involved, and the transition is similar to navigating from one route...