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Olatunde Adedeji
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Olatunde Adedeji

Olatunde Adedeji is a seasoned web developer with over 15 years of experience in developing dynamic and detail-oriented enterprise web applications. Along with his extensive experience in developing, maintaining and supporting mobile, web and enterprise applications in Python, Go and JavaScript, Olatunde has consistently delivered excellent services, as team lead, team member or in consultancy capacity. Olatunde is proficient in application design and solution blueprinting; including mastery of application development tools such as: Flask, Django, Gin, React, and NodeJS. When not weaving the web and playing chess, Olatunde spends time with his wife, Adedoyin and two daughters, Mitchelle and Mabel.
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Handling dynamic routes

In web application development, a dynamic route refers to a route that employs a placeholder to represent a changing value. This placeholder can be used to handle various dynamic content. You can have placeholders such as speakerId, productId, postId, and so on to represent the changing value.

For instance, let’s consider the preceding speakers route we updated with /speakers/:speakerId. It is conventional to add a colon in front of a dynamic route, like so: :speakerId. So, how can we retrieve this value of speakerId from the URL? This is where the useParams hook comes in.

Using useParams

The useParams hook in React Router provides access to the dynamic parameters extracted from a route. These parameters are the values that correspond to the placeholders in the path of a dynamic route.

For instance, in the following code snippet, the useParams hook is used to retrieve SpeakerId from the /speakers/:speakerId route. The following code shows...

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Olatunde Adedeji

Olatunde Adedeji is a seasoned web developer with over 15 years of experience in developing dynamic and detail-oriented enterprise web applications. Along with his extensive experience in developing, maintaining and supporting mobile, web and enterprise applications in Python, Go and JavaScript, Olatunde has consistently delivered excellent services, as team lead, team member or in consultancy capacity. Olatunde is proficient in application design and solution blueprinting; including mastery of application development tools such as: Flask, Django, Gin, React, and NodeJS. When not weaving the web and playing chess, Olatunde spends time with his wife, Adedoyin and two daughters, Mitchelle and Mabel.
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