If you are using react-router-dom v6 it looks like Switch has been replaced with Routes

What is your react-router-dom version?

"react-router": "^5.2.0",
"react-router-dom": "^5.2.0",

If it is above one then you need to remove node-modules and reinstall node-module using npm install --save.

Write <Routes> instead of <Switch>.

Run this in the terminal:

npm install --save react-router react-router-dom

This helped me. Or check file package.json and add the following right after "react-dom": "^17.0.2",:

 "react-router": "^6.0.0",

In react-router-dom v6, "Switch" is replaced by routes "Routes". You need to update the import from

import { Switch, Route } from "react-router-dom";

to

import { Routes ,Route } from 'react-router-dom';

You also need to update the Route declaration from

<Route path="/" component={Home} />

to

<Route path='/welcome' element={<Home/>} />

In react-router-dom, you also do not need to use the exact in the Route declaration.

For more information, you can visit the official documentation: upgrade to react-router-dom v6

I also faced the same problem, and I searched towards the Internet so much, but I didn't get any answer according to my question.

So I uninstalled the version 6 of react-router-dom:

npm uninstall react-router-dom

And installed version 5.2.0 of react-router-dom:

npm install react-router-dom@5.2.0

I solved the problem like this:

yarn add react-router-dom@5,3,0

I have faced the same issue and I have removed react-router-dom and then reinstalled it.

The issue occurred because I have upgraded it to the latest version, i.e., react-router-dom v6 and then wanted to downgrade to the previous version, i.e., v5.

I was on Ruby on Rails project and using yarn to manage dependency you can use this command to remove and reinstall it:

yarn remove react-router-dom

yarn add react-router-dom

This should solve the issue.

I was facing the same issue as the issue poster. I tried all things like below:

• uninstall and install react-router-dom
• separately imported Switch from react-router-dom

But nothing really worked for me.

Kindly follow the below instructions. I am sure you will not get the error again.

Correct code:

import React from "react";
import "./App.css";
import NavBar from "./components/navbar.js";
import Footer from "./components/footer.js";
import Home from "./components/pages/homepage/home.js";
import { BrowserRouter as Router, Routes, Route, Link } from "react-router-dom";

function App() {
  return (
    <Router>
      <div className="app-container">
        <NavBar />
        <Routes>
          <Route path="/home" element={<Home/>} />
        </Routes>
        <Footer />
      </div>
    </Router>
  );
}

export default App;

Note: Switch have been replaced with Routes and instead of using component, we need to use element.

Switch has been replaced by Routes

Source from Update routing (react-router-dom syntax) #1386 (howtographql GitHub)

import {
      BrowserRouter as Router,
      Routes,
      Route,
      Link
    } from "react-router-dom";
    
    function App() {
      return (
        <>
        <Router className="App">
          <Navbar/>
          <Routes>
            <Route path='/'>
    
            </Route>
          </Routes>
        </Router>
        </>
      );
    }
    
    export default App;

This is an example using react-router-dom V6

import React from 'react'
import { BrowserRouter as Router, Route, Routes } from 'react-router-dom'

import '../styles/global.css'

import Layout from '../containers/Layout'
import Home from '../pages/Home'
import Login from '../containers/Login'
import RecoveryPassword from '../containers/RecoveryPassword'
import NotFound from '../pages/NotFound'

const App = () => {
  return (
    <Router>
      <Layout>
        <Routes>
          <Route exact path="/" element={<Home/>}/>
          <Route exact path="/login" element={<Login/>}/>
          <Route exact path="/recovery-password" element={<RecoveryPassword/>}/>
          <Route path="*" element={<NotFound/>}/>
        </Routes>
      </Layout>
    </Router>
  );
}

export default App;

Change from

import { BrowserRouter as Router, Switch, Route, Link } from "react-router-dom";

<Switch>
    <Route path="/home" component={Home} />
</Switch>

to

import { BrowserRouter as Router, Routes, Route, Link } from "react-router-dom";

<Routes>
    <Route path="/home" element={ <Home />} />
</Routes>

If you are using react-router-dom v6, you have to change Switch to Routes as given in the example below:

Instead of importing Switch, import { Switch, ... } from 'react-router-dom';

import Routes import { Routes, ...} from 'react-router-dom';

Then, instead of using component = {ComponentName}, use element={<ComponentName/>} as shown below:

import { Routes, Route, ...} from 'react-router-dom';
    .
    .
    .  
    <Routes>
      <Route exact path='/' element={<Home/>}></Route>
    </Routes>

A solution:

Delete the node_modules folder. In the package.json file, change the react-router-dom version (version 6 in my case) to "react-router-dom": "^5.2.1"

Then in the terminal run:

npm install to install the dependencies and then run npm start to relaunch

I solved my error by changing the way I was rendering my routes to the use of the element.

To:

import React from "react";
import { BrowserRouter as Router, Route, Routes } from "react-router-dom";
import { Home } from "./app";
import { Login, Register } from "./auth";
const R: React.FC = () => {
  return (
    <Router>
      <Routes>
        <Route path="/login" caseSensitive={false} element={<Login />} />
        <Route path="/register" caseSensitive={false} element={<Register />} />
        <Route path="/" caseSensitive={false} element={<Home />} />
      </Routes>
    </Router>
  );
};
export default R;

Basically before v6.*:

import React from "react";
import { BrowserRouter as Router, Route, Switch} from "react-router-dom";
import { Home } from "./app";
import { Login, Register } from "./auth";
const R: React.FC = () => {
  return (
    <Router>
      <Switch>
        <Route path="/login">
           <Login />
        </Route>
       <Route path="/register">
           <Register/>
        </Route>

       <Route path="/">
           <Home/>
        </Route>
      </Switch>
    </Router>
  );
};
export default R;

After v6.*

import React from "react";
import { BrowserRouter as Router, Route, Routes } from "react-router-dom";
import { Home } from "./app";
import { Login, Register } from "./auth";
const R: React.FC = () => {
  return (
    <Router>
      <Routes>
        <Route path="/login" caseSensitive={false} element={<Login />} />
        <Route path="/register" caseSensitive={false} element={<Register />} />
        <Route path="/" caseSensitive={false} element={<Home />} />
      </Routes>
    </Router>
  );
};
export default R;

I got this error after installing react-router-dom v6.0.2.

Replacing Switch with Routes solved the issue:

import {BrowserRouter as Router, Route, Routes} from "react-router-dom";

Syntax has changed

Old Syntax

import { BrowserRouter as Router, Switch, Route, Link } from "react-router-dom";

<Switch>
    <Route path="/home" component={Home} />
</Switch>

New Syntax:

import { BrowserRouter as Router, Routes, Route, Link } from "react-router-dom";

<Routes>
    <Route path="/home" element={<Home/>} />
</Routes>

in react-router-dom v6 Switch is Replaced with Routes

and component with element

{componentName} with {}

I was able to fix it by changing from Switch to Routes So you should have something like this:

<Routes>
  <Route path='/home' element={<Home/>} />
</Routes>

and also you need to change the imort from Switch to Routes:

import { Routes, Route } from "react-router-dom";

If you are using a newer version of react-router-dom (for example, ^6.2.1 in my case) you should change <Switch> to <Routes> and use <Route> with the component={<SampleComponent />} parameter.

Particularly the code example below:

import { BrowserRouter as Router, Routes, Route} from 'react-router-dom';
import MyComponent from './containers/MyComponent';

export default function AppRoutes() {
    return (
        <Routes>
            <Route exact path="/" component={<MyComponent />}>
            </Route>
        </Routes>
    );
}

If you installed react-router and react-router-dom v6 beta, just uninstall like this:

npm uninstall --save react-router react-router-dom

And install it with this:

npm install --save react-router react-router-dom

It is going to install the latest version that is not beta.

Then we just need to restart Visual Studio Code or whichever text editor you handle it with.

In react-router-dom v6, Switch has been replaced with Routes. Use this format:

import { BrowserRouter as Router, Routes, Route} from 'react-router-dom';

<Router>
    <Routes>
        <Route exact path="/" component={component} />
        <Route exact path="/path2" component={component2} />
        <Route exact path="/path3" component={component3} />
    </Routes>
</Router>

I was also facing that issue and finally solved it, by arranging code. I am very new in React.

Following is my App.js code (class base component):

import logo from './logo.svg';
import './App.css';

import React, { Component } from 'react'
import PropTypes from 'prop-types'
import Navbar from './components/Navbar';
import News from './components/News';
import { BrowserRouter as Router, Route, Routes,Link } from 'react-router-dom'

export class App extends Component {
  static propTypes = {

  }

  render() {
    return (
      <>
        <Navbar/>
        <Router>
          <Routes>
            <Route path="/general"><News pageSize={3} country={'us'} category={'general'}/></Route>
          </Routes>
        </Router>
      </>
    )
  }
}

export default App

<Switch> is replaced by <Routes>

Before:

import { Route, Switch} from 'react-router'

<Router>
    <Switch>
        <Route />
        <Route />
    </Switch>
</Router>

Now:

import { Route, Routes} from 'react-router'

<Router>
    <Routes>
        <Route />
        <Route />
    </Routes>
</Router>

Just use Routes instead of Switch.

If you are using version 6 of react-router-dom, use this

Also, please see here for reference : https://reactrouter.com/docs/en/v6/upgrading/v5#:~:text=single%20route%20config%3A-,//%20This%20is%20a%20React%20Router%20v6%20app,%7D,-This%20step%20is

// This is a React Router v6 app
import {
  BrowserRouter,
  Routes,
  Route,
  Link,
  Outlet
} from "react-router-dom";

function App() {
  return (
    <BrowserRouter>
      <Routes>
        <Route path="/" element={<Home />} />
        <Route path="users" element={<Users />}>
          <Route path="me" element={<OwnUserProfile />} />
          <Route path=":id" element={<UserProfile />} />
        </Route>
      </Routes>
    </BrowserRouter>
  );
}

function Users() {
  return (
    <div>
      <nav>
        <Link to="me">My Profile</Link>
      </nav>

      <Outlet />
    </div>
  );
}

This is actually not a problem with you or React or your code. It's just the updated version of react-router-dom. Replace the Switch by Routes.

That’s it. Just use Routes instead of Switch and it works fine.

If you are using version 6 of react-router-dom, then you need to update Switch with Routes. The below syntax worked for me:

import { BrowserRouter as Router, Route, Routes } from "react-router-dom";
import './App.css';
import Home from './components/Home';

function App() {
  return (
    <div>
      <Router>
        <Routes>
          <Route path="/" exact element={<Home />} />
        </Routes>
      </Router>
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

You have to check npm package version first. To check, run npm info react-router-dom version.

If the package version is >= 6.0.0, you have to change

import { BrowserRouter as Router, Switch, Route, Link } from "react-router-dom";

to

import { BrowserRouter as Router,Routes, Route, Link } from "react-router-dom";

And also have to change

<Route path="/home" component={Home} />

to

<Route path="/home" element={<Home/>} />

I had the same issue. On the project terminal, type the following commands. You will not need to make any changes to your code.

1. npm uninstall react-router-dom

2. npm install react-router-dom@5.2.0

react-router-dom has updated to version 6. Now they have renamed the <Switch/> component to <Routes/>. There are also many changes.

You should spend sometime to read the documentation. Here is the link for react-router-v6-doc.

Switch is exported from react-router and not react-router-dom (the same goes for Route I think).