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React Router Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   React Router Quick Start Guide Routing in React applications made easy

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789532555
Length 156 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sagar Ganatra Sagar Ganatra
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to React Router 4 and Creating Your First Route FREE CHAPTER 2. Configuring Routes - Using Various Options in the Route Component 3. Using the Link and NavLink Components to Navigate to a Route 4. Using the Redirect and Switch Components 5. Understanding the Core Router, and Configuring the BrowserRouter and HashRouter components 6. Using StaticRouter in a Server-Side Rendered React Application 7. Using NativeRouter in a React Native Application 8. Redux Bindings with connected-react-router 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using the Link and NavLink Components to Navigate to a Route

React-Router provides the <Link> and <NavLink> components, which allow you to navigate to different routes defined in the application. These navigation components can be thought of as being like anchor links on the page that allow you to navigate to other pages in the site. In a traditional website, when you navigate through the application using anchor links, it results in a page refresh, and all the components in the page are re-rendered. Navigation links created with <Link> and <NavLink> do not result in a page refresh, and only those certain sections of the page that are defined using the <Route> and match the URL path are updated.

Similar to a <Route> component, the navigation components <Link> and <NavLink> are React components that allow you to define navigation...

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