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Published inSep 2018
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Sagar Ganatra
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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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Exclusive routing with the <Switch> component

When a URL is presented to <BrowserRouter>, it will look for routes created with <Route> components and render all the routes that match the browser's URL path. For example, consider the following routes:

<Route
path="/login"
component={LoginComponent}
/>
<Route
path="/:id"
render={({ match }) =>
<div> Route with path {match.url}</div>
}
/>

Here, both the routes with the paths /login and /:id match the /login URL path. React-Router renders all the <Route> components that match the URL path. However, to render only the first matching route, the library provides the <Switch> component. The <Switch> component accepts a list of <Route> components as its children and it renders only the first <Route> that matches the...

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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.
Read more about Sagar Ganatra