I am trying to use routing for the first time and followed the exact instructions from Udemy:
import { Route } from "react-router-dom";
import Welcome from "./Pages/Welcome";
import Game from "./Pages/Game";
import Leaderboard from "./Pages/Leaderboard";
function App() {
return (
<div>
<Route path = "/welcome">
<Welcome />
</Route>
<Route path = "/game">
<Game />
</Route>
<Route path = "/leaderboard">
<Leaderboard />
</Route>
</div>
);
}
export default App;
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import { BrowserRouter } from 'react-router-dom';
import App from "./App";
ReactDOM.render(
<BrowserRouter>
<App />
</BrowserRouter>,
document.getElementById('root')
);
I get the following error:
Error: A Route is only ever to be used as the child of element, never rendered directly. Please wrap your Route in a Routes.
Where have I gone wrong?
Yes, in react-router-dom version 6 it is a bit different. Please look as the sample below.
import { render } from "react-dom";
import {
BrowserRouter,
Routes,
Route
} from "react-router-dom";
import App from "./App";
import Expenses from "./routes/expenses";
import Invoices from "./routes/invoices";
const rootElement = document.getElementById("root");
render(
<BrowserRouter>
<Routes>
<Route path="/" element={<App />} />
<Route path="expenses" element={<Expenses />} />
<Route path="invoices" element={<Invoices />} />
</Routes>
</BrowserRouter>,
rootElement
);
There was a pretty decent change between versions 5 and 6 of react-router-dom . It seems that the Udemy course/tutorial is using version 5, where all it needed was a Router to provide a routing context and the Route components only needed to be rendered within this context. However, in version 6, Route components must now be rendered within a Routes component ( which is an update to the v5 Switch component ).
One of the most exciting changes in v6 is the powerful new
<Routes>element. This is a fairly significant update to the<Switch>element from v5 with some major new features including relative routing and binding, automatic route and route sorting, and nested layouts.
The error message is pretty clear, wrap your Route components in a Routes component. Routes also don't take children, they render the components as JSX in the new element prop.
function App() { return ( <div> <Routes> <Route path="/welcome" element={<Welcome />} /> <Route path="/game" element={<Game />} /> <Route path="/leaderboard" element={<Leaderboard />} /> </Routes> </div> ); }The problem is your react-router-dom version.
Probably it's 5.1 or higher.
You can try (in terminal):
npm install react-router-dom@5.3.0
And then your code will be OK. Or you better rebuild your code according to new react-router-dom.