I have a navbar that is rendered in every route while the route changes on click.
./components/navbar.jsx
import React, { Component } from 'react';
import '../App.css';
import { Link } from 'react-router-dom';
class Navbar extends Component {
constructor(props) {
super(props);
this.state = {};
}
render() {
return (
<div id = 'navbar'>
<div className='name-head'>
My Name
</div>
<div id = 'nav-links-container'>
<Link to='/experiences'>
<div className = 'nav-links'>
Experiences
</div>
</Link>
<div className = 'nav-links'>
Projects
</div>
<div className = 'nav-links'>
Skills
</div>
<div className = 'nav-links'>
Resume
</div>
</div>
</div>
);
}
}
export default Navbar;
./components/experiences.jsx
import React, { Component } from 'react';
class Experiences extends Component {
render() {
return (
<div>
<h1>hi</h1>
</div>
);
}
}
export default Experiences;
index.js
import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import './index.css';
import reportWebVitals from './reportWebVitals';
import Navbar from './components/Navbar';
import Home from './components/Home';
import Experiences from './components/experience';
import {
BrowserRouter as Router,
Routes,
Route
} from 'react-router-dom';
ReactDOM.render(
<React.StrictMode>
<Navbar />
<Router>
<Routes>
<Route path="/" element={<Home />} />
<Route path="/experiences" element={<Experiences />} />
</Routes>
</Router>
</React.StrictMode>,
document.getElementById('root')
);
reportWebVitals();
The error doesn't come when I remove the <Link> from the experiences tag in navbar.
There is a similar question posted here: Error: useHref() may be used only in the context of a <Router> component
but doesn't help.
I'm using react router v6
Wrap navbar with BrowserRouter
import { BrowserRouter, Routes, Route } from "react-router-dom";
<BrowserRouter>
<AppNavBar />
<Routes>
<Route path="/" element={<Home />} />
<Route path="/wall" element={<WallPost />} />
</Routes>
</BrowserRouter>
Links are inside Navbar & Navbar is outside of Router => links are outside of Router => Router will not manage Links
Solution
Move the Navbar into Router section. Example:
<Router>
<Navbar /> // <===========
<Routes>
<Route />
<Route />
</Routes>
</Router>
You are rendering the navbar outside the routing context. The Router isn't aware of what routes the links are attempting to link to that it is managing. The reason routing works when directly navigating to "/experiences" is because the Router is aware of the URL when the app mounts.
<Navbar /> // <-- outside router!!
<Router>
<Routes>
<Route path="/" element={<Home />} />
<Route path="/experiences" element={<Experiences />} />
</Routes>
</Router>
Move it inside the routing context so the Router is aware and can manage routing correctly.
<Router>
<Navbar />
<Routes>
<Route path="/" element={<Home />} />
<Route path="/experiences" element={<Experiences />} />
</Routes>
</Router>
If you are still having problem with this one is because react-router-dom relies on React context to work when try unit testing it. This makes <Link /> or <Route /> obsolete.
Try reading the react-router-dom documentation.
Instead of using
render(<Example />)
that have either or in it, you can try
render(<MemoryRouter>
<Example />
</MemoryRouter>)
Hope this solve your problem
in React Route v6 you can solve this giving the route context to your entire App with <BrowserRouter>
This is an complete example of index.js
import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import { BrowserRouter } from 'react-router-dom';
import { App } from './components/App/App.jsx';
ReactDOM.render(
<React.StrictMode>
<BrowserRouter> //that is the key
<App />
</BrowserRouter>
</React.StrictMode>,
document.getElementById('root')
);