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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)

Summary

The <Redirect> component can be used to redirect the user from the current rendered route to a new route. The component accepts props: to and push. This redirection could be used when the components in the application have moved to a different directory, or when the user is not authorized to visit the page. The <Redirect> component is helpful when a user visits a protected route and only authorized users are allowed to view the page.

The <Switch> component is used when only one <Route> out of a list of <Route> should be rendered. The <Switch> component accepts a list of <Route> and <Redirect> components as its children, and sequentially searches for a matching <Route> or a <Redirect> component. When a match is found, <Switch> renders the component and stops looking for a matching path.

This behavior of...