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Sagar Ganatra
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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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<BrowserRouter> component

The <BrowserRouter> component was discussed briefly in the first chapter. As the name suggests, the <BrowserRouter> component is used in browser-based applications and it uses HTML5's history API to keep the UI in sync with the browser's URL. Here, we take a look at how the component creates a history object for the browser environment and provides this history object to the <Router>.

The <BrowserRouter> component accepts the following props:

static propTypes = {
basename: PropTypes.string,
forceRefresh: PropTypes.bool,
getUserConfirmation: PropTypes.func,
keyLength: PropTypes.number,
children: PropTypes.node
};

Similar to the <Router> interface, the <BrowserRouter> accepts only one child component (usually the application's root component). The children prop mentioned in the preceding...

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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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