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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

In this chapter, we looked at how a React application can be rendered on the server-side (with Node.js and Express.js) using the ReactDOMserver.renderToString method. The <StaticRouter> component in React-Router can be used to wrap the application's root component, thus enabling you to add <Route> components that match the requested URL path on the server-side. The <StaticRouter> component accepts props context and location. The staticContext prop (available only on the server-side) in the rendered component contains the data provided by the <StaticRouter> in the context prop. It can also be used to add properties when you want to redirect the user using the <Redirect> component.

The matchPath function is used to determine whether the requested URL matches the provided object of the shape {path, exact, strict, sensitive}. It's similar...