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React Router Quick Start Guide

You're reading from React Router Quick Start Guide

Product type Book

Published in Sep 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789532555

Pages 156 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Front End Web Development

Author (1):

Sagar Ganatra

Table of Contents (10) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to React Router 4 and Creating Your First Route

2. Configuring Routes - Using Various Options in the Route Component

3. Using the Link and NavLink Components to Navigate to a Route

4. Using the Redirect and Switch Components

5. Understanding the Core Router, and Configuring the BrowserRouter and HashRouter components

6. Using StaticRouter in a Server-Side Rendered React Application

7. Using NativeRouter in a React Native Application

8. Redux Bindings with connected-react-router

9. Other Books You May Enjoy

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<NavLink> component

The <NavLink> component is similar to the <Link> component, except that several props can be specified that help you to conditionally add styling attributes to the rendered element. It accepts the same set of props as the <Link> component (to, replace, and innerRef) for navigating to a route, and it includes props to style the selected route.

Let's take a look at these props that help you style the <NavLink> component.

activeClassName prop

By default, the class name active is applied to the active <NavLink> component. For example, when a <NavLink> is clicked and the corresponding route is rendered, the selected <NavLink> has its class name set to active...

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Authors (1)

Sagar Ganatra

Sagar Ganatra is a frontend engineer and an architect from Bangalore, India. He has more than a decade of experience in developing web and mobile applications. He specializes in architecting projects using JavaScript and frameworks such as React, Angular, and Node. His previous books include Kendo UI Cookbook and Instant Kendo UI Mobile, both published by Packt Publishing. He also writes about frontend technologies in his blog, sagarganatra (dot) com.

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