I am having trouble changing the view in react with routing. I only want to show a list of users, and clicking on each user should navigate to a details page. Here is the router:
import React from "react";
import ReactDOM from "react-dom";
import { BrowserRouter } from 'react-router-dom';
import Users from "./components/Users";
import { Router, Route } from "react-router";
import Details from "./components/Details";
ReactDOM.render((
<BrowserRouter>
<div>
<Route path="/" component={Users} />
<Route path="/details" component={Details} />
</div>
</BrowserRouter>
), document.getElementById('app'))
When I use the url /details my browser navigates to that url, but does not change the view. Any other route throws 404 so it seems to recognize the route but not update.
You need to specify the attribute exact for your indexRoute, otherwise for even /details route it will still match with / . Also try to import Route from react-router-dom
import React from "react";
import ReactDOM from "react-dom";
import { BrowserRouter, Route } from 'react-router-dom';
import Users from "./components/Users";
import Details from "./components/Details";
ReactDOM.render((
<BrowserRouter>
<div>
<Route exact path="/" component={Users} />
<Route path="/details" component={Details} />
</div>
</BrowserRouter>
), document.getElementById('app'))
UPDATE:
Another thing that you need to do is to attach your component Users with withRouter. You need to make use of withRouter only when your component is not receiving the Router props,
This may happen in cases when your component is a nested child of a component rendered by the Router or you haven't passed the Router props to it or when the component is not linked to the Router at all and is rendered as a separate component from the Routes.
In Users.js add
import {withRouter} from 'react-router';
.........
export default withRouter(Users)
You just have to wrap the components inside withRouter.
<Route exact path="/mypath" component={withRouter(MyComponent)} />
Here is a sample App.js file:
...
import { BrowserRouter as Router, Route, Switch, withRouter } from "react-router-dom";
import Home from "./pages/Home";
import Profile from "./pages/Profile";
class App extends Component {
render() {
return (
<Router>
<Switch>
<Route exact path="/" component={withRouter(Home)} />
<Route exact path="/profile" component={withRouter(Profile)} />
</Switch>
</Router>
);
}
}
export default App;
Additional
If you are using react router, componentWillReceiveProps will get called whenever the url changes.
componentWillReceiveProps(nextProps) {
var currentProductId = nextProps.match.params.productId;
var nextProductId = nextProps.match.params.productId; // from the new url
...
}
Note
Alternatively, you may also wrap the component in withRouter before exporting, but then you have to ensure a few other things. I usually skip this step.
export default withRouter(Profile)
I had the same issue and discovered that it was because I had a nested router. Once I removed the nested router, and simply put my component-specific routes within a switch component--the issue was resolved without having to use withRouter or make any additional changes.
<Router> // <--Remove nested Router
<Switch>
<Route exact path="/workflows" component={ViewWorkflows} />
<Route path="/workflows/new" component={NewWorkflow} />
</Switch>
</Router>
Yusufbek is describing a similar issue. I think it's a lot cleaner to store the component related routes at a view level versus storing all of them in one main router. In a production app, that's going to be way too many routes to easily read through and debug issues.