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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)

Exclusive routing with the <Switch> component

When a URL is presented to <BrowserRouter>, it will look for routes created with <Route> components and render all the routes that match the browser's URL path. For example, consider the following routes:

<Route
path="/login"
component={LoginComponent}
/>
<Route
path="/:id"
render={({ match }) =>
<div> Route with path {match.url}</div>
}
/>

Here, both the routes with the paths /login and /:id match the /login URL path. React-Router renders all the <Route> components that match the URL path. However, to render only the first matching route, the library provides the <Switch> component. The <Switch> component accepts a list of <Route> components as its children and it renders only the first <Route> that matches the...