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React Router V5 best way to use context variable in route

In My app I have my routes defined, as per below:

        <BrowserRouter>
          <Header />
          <div className="App">
            <Switch>
              <Route exact path="/">
                <Redirect to="/home" />
              </Route>
              <Route exact path={["/home", "/"]} component={Home} />
              <Route path="/account/:id" render={(props: RouteComponentProps<any>) => <Account {...props} />} />
              <Route component={NotFound} />
            </Switch>
          </div>
        </BrowserRouter>

What I want to know is, this can be tricky, If I wanted my route to have a prefix from my context i.e variable how would I do this, but the twist is the variable comes from an api response?

so what if i wanted the route /contextVariable/home but contextVariable is from an api response and is stored in a context value, I know how I would bring that variable into the component but how would the routes handle it i.e from not being /undefined/home as in the response would need to finish before being inserted into the route?

Any idea's?

about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza
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I had once made a project that had similar requirement. In that, instead of declaring dynamic routes, I fetched a routes array from the state which was an object array with component, path, and few other parameters. By default I added the initial landing page and not found page:

const [routes, setRoutes] = React.useState([
{
 component: HomeComponent,
 path: '/',
},
{
 component: NoMatchPage,
 path: '*',
}
])

And then I had the request in a useEffect block which would update this state like so:

React.useEffect(()=>{
 // call api()
 const oldRoutes = routes;
 const noMatchPage = oldRoutes.pop();
 const newRoutes = [...oldRoutes, 
    responseFromApi.map(
     routeItem => 
        ({
          component: ComponentName, 
          path: routeItem.path
        })
     ), noMatchPage]
 setRoutes(newRoutes)
},[])

Edit 1 : Cause I'm forgetful

Sorry, I forgot the main part, here's how the Route rendering would be:

<Switch>
    {
      routes.map(routeItem =>
        <Route path={routeItem.path} component={routeItem.component} />
      )
    }
</Switch>

Also if you want to avoid the extra code in useEffect, you could simply do this:

React.useEffect(()=>{
 // call api()
 setRoutes(responseFromApi.map(
     routeItem => 
        ({
          component: ComponentName, 
          path: routeItem.path
        })
     ))
},[])

and then

<Switch>
    <Route exact path={["/home", "/"]} component={Home} />
    {
      routes.map(routeItem =>
        <Route path={routeItem.path} component={routeItem.component} />
      )
    }
    <Route component={NotFound} />
</Switch>

Edit 2 : Cause I'm ignorant

In the case where the user enters the URL directly and Switch is unable to identify the Route and therefore loads the NotFoundPage, you could do the following:

  1. Set a condition when you start loading your paths, inside your useEffect block:
const [loading, setLoading] = React.useState(false);
React.useEffect(() =>
    {
      setLoading(true);
      // load paths
      setLoading(false);
    }, [])
  1. While the fetch is in progress, show a Loader to the user:
return
    (
    <>
        {
           loading ? 
             <LoaderComponent /> : 
             <Switch>
                // same as before
             </Switch>
        }
    </>
    )

Preferable show something for the user to read, so they don't get irritated, cause patience is a thing of the past. Hope this helps!

about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza Report

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If you want to do this with a React Context then this is the pattern I'd suggest. Create a React Context that holds the API logic to fetch a "base path" and expose that out to consumers. Consumers will take the provided "base path" value and prepend it to all link targets and route paths.

Example:

BasePathProvider

import { createContext, useContext } from "react";

const BasePath = createContext({
  basepath: ""
});

const BasePathProvider = ({ children }) => {
  ... logic to fetch basepath ...

  return (
    <BasePath.Provider value={{ basepath }}>
      {children}
    </BasePath.Provider>
  );
};

const useBasePath = () => useContext(BasePath);

Header

const Header = () => {
  const { basepath } = useBasePath();

  return (
    ...
    <Link to={`${basepath}/`}>Home</Link>
    <Link to={`${basepath}/account/${/* some id value */}`}>
      Account
    </Link>
    ...
  );
};

App

function App() {
  return (
    <div className="App">
      <Header />
      <BasePath.Consumer>
        {({ basepath }) => (
          <Switch>
            <Redirect from={`${basepath}/`} exact to={`${basepath}/home`} />
            <Route path={`${basepath}/home`} component={Home} />
            <Route path={`${basepath}/account/:id`} component={Account} />
            <Route component={NotFound} />
          </Switch>
        )}
      </BasePath.Consumer>
    </div>
  );
}

index.js

import { BrowserRouter as Router } from "react-router-dom";
import BasePathProvider from "../path/to/BasePathProvider";

...

<Router>
  <BasePathProvider>
    <App />
  </BasePathProvider>
</Router>

Edit react-router-v5-best-way-to-use-context-variable-in-route

Note: You might also want/need to implement a "loading" state to conditionally render the BasePathProvider component's children until the basepath value has been fetched.

about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza Report
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