Made out of frustration with the horrible react-router, the Router Link library is incredibly easy to use.
npm i router-link or yarn add router-link
An example application can be found here: React App Boilerplate with Mobx
// Define your routes in a file called routes.js
import Home from '@/views/Home.js'
import About from '@/views/About.js'
import Login from '@/views/Login.js'
import Chat from '@/views/Chat.js'
import NotFound from '@/views/NotFound.js'
const routes = [
{ path: '/', view: Home },
{ path: '/about', view: About },
{ path: '/login', view: Login },
{ path: '/chat', view: Chat },
{ path: '*', view: NotFound }
]
export default routes
// In your App.js, the top level component, include your routes
// and pass them as the 'routes' prop to <Router>
import React, { Component } from 'react'
import { Router } from '@/router-link'
import Navigation from '@/components/Navigation.js'
import routes from './routes.js'
import './App.css'
class App extends Component {
render() {
return (
<div className="App">
<header className="App-header">
<Navigation/>
</header>
<main className="App-main">
<Router routes={ routes }/>
</main>
</div>
)
}
}
export default App
// Use the Link to create links for navigation
// They will create a-tags with an active class for styling.
import React, { Component } from 'react'
import { Link } from '@/router-link'
import { store } from '@/store.js'
class Home extends Component {
render() {
return (
<Link to="/login">Log in</Link> to get started!
)
}
}
export default HomeIn your components you can use the router.push('/path') to programmatically trigger a route:
// Import the router library
import { router } from 'router-link'
// Do this anywhere inside your component to redirect
router.push('/login')Define dynamic routes by adding a : in front of the sub-path, and get the parameters as props:
// Define route with parameters
const routes = [
{ path: '/messages/:id', view: Messages }
]
// Use like this
<Link to={ `/messages/${ message.id }` }>Message</Link>In this case the the id will be available as this.props.route.id in your component.
MIT Licensed. Enjoy!