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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.

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Table of Contents (10 chapters)
Preface
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
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1
Introduction to React Router 4 and Creating Your First Route
Introduction to React Router 4 and Creating Your First Route
A brief look at React
Introduction to React-Router
Getting started with React-Router
Summary
2
Configuring Routes - Using Various Options in the Route Component
Configuring Routes - Using Various Options in the Route Component
Route props
Route component props
Route parameters
Nested routes and dynamic routing
Dynamic routes from JSON
Summary
3
Using the Link and NavLink Components to Navigate to a Route
Using the Link and NavLink Components to Navigate to a Route
<Link> component
<NavLink> component
Navigating to nested routes
Navigating to a route programmatically using history
Using the withRouter higher–order component
Preventing transitions with <Prompt>
Summary
4
Using the Redirect and Switch Components
Using the Redirect and Switch Components
The <Redirect> component
Protecting routes and authorization
Exclusive routing with the <Switch> component
Summary
5
Understanding the Core Router, and Configuring the BrowserRouter and HashRouter components
Understanding the Core Router, and Configuring the BrowserRouter and HashRouter components
<Router> component
<BrowserRouter> component
<HashRouter> component
Summary
6
Using StaticRouter in a Server-Side Rendered React Application
Using StaticRouter in a Server-Side Rendered React Application
Performing SSR of a React application using Node.js and Express.js
Adding <StaticRouter> and creating routes
StaticRouter context prop
Creating Isomorphic React applications
Summary
7
Using NativeRouter in a React Native Application
Using NativeRouter in a React Native Application
Using NativeRouter in a React Native application
The <NativeRouter> component
The <BackButton> component
Creating Deeplinks with <DeepLinking>
Summary
8
Redux Bindings with connected-react-router
Redux Bindings with connected-react-router
State management with Redux
Getting started with connected-react-router
Reading state information from the Redux store
Navigating by dispatching actions
Summary
9
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<HashRouter> component

The <HashRouter> component is part of the react-router-dom package, and, similar to <BrowserRouter>, it's also used in building applications for the browser environment. The primary difference between <BrowserRouter> and <HashRouter> is the URL that the component creates:

A <BrowserRouter> creates a URL as follows:

www.packtpub.com/react-router

Whereas the <HashRouter> adds a hash to the URL:

www.packtpub.com/#/react-router

The <BrowserRouter> component leverages the HTML5 History API to keep track of the router history, whereas the <HashRouter> component uses window.location.hash (the hash portion of the URL) to remember the changes in the browser's history stack. The <BrowserRouter> should be used in building applications that work on modern browsers that support the HTML5's History...

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