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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)

<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...