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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
Languages
Author (1):
Sagar Ganatra Sagar Ganatra
Profile icon 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

Navigating to a route programmatically using history

The <Link> and <NavLink> components render anchor links on the page, which allow you to navigate from the current route to the new route. However, in many cases, the user should be navigated to a new route programmatically when an event occurs. For example, the user should be navigated to a new route upon clicking the Submit button in the login form. The history object available to the rendered component can be used in such cases:

export const DashboardComponent = (props) => (    
<div className="dashboard">
Inside Dashboard route
<button onClick={() => props.history.push('/user')}>
User
</button>
</div>
);

Here, the DashboardComponent receives props as its argument, which contains the history object. The onClick handler calls...

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