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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)

Creating Isomorphic React applications

An application where the code can run on server-and client-side environments with little or no change is referred to as an Isomorphic application. In an Isomorphic application, the first request made by the user's web browser is processed by the server, and any subsequent request is processed by the client. By processing and rendering the first request on the server-side, and sending HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code provides a better user experience, and also helps search engine crawlers to index the page. All subsequent requests can then be processed by the client-side code, which is sent as part of the first response from the server.

Here's the updated request-response flow:

To render the application on the client-side, either of the <BrowserRouter> or <HashRouter> components can be used. For the purpose of this example...