routing.md

Routing via react-router and react-router-redux

react-router is the de-facto standard routing solution for react applications. The thing is that with redux and a single state tree, the URL is part of that state. react-router-redux takes care of synchronizing the location of our application with the application state.

(See the react-router-redux documentation for more information)

Usage

To add a new route, simply import the Route component and use it standalone or inside the Switch component (all part of RR4 API):

<Route exact path="/" component={HomePage} />

Top level routes are located in App.js.

If you want your route component (or any component for that matter) to be loaded asynchronously, use container or component generator with 'Do you want an async loader?' option activated.

To go to a new page use the push function by react-router-redux:

import { push } from 'react-router-redux';

dispatch(push('/some/page'));

Child Routes

For example, if you have a route called about at /about and want to make a child route called team at /about/our-team, follow the example in App.js to create a Switch within the parent component. Also remove the exact property from the about parent route.

// AboutPage/index.js
import { Switch, Route } from 'react-router-dom';

class AboutPage extends React.PureComponent {
  render() {
    return (
      <Switch>
        <Route exact path="/about/our-team" />
      </Switch>
    );
  }
}

Note that with React Router v4, route re-rendering is handled by React's setState. This means that when wrapping route components in a redux connected container, or PureComponent or any other component with shouldComponentUpdate, you need to create a ConnectedSwitch container that receives location directly from a redux store. Read more about this in Dealing with Update Blocking.

You can read more in react-router's documentation.