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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 Redirect and Switch Components

Redirecting the user from one route to the other can be achieved using React-Router's <Redirect> component. In traditional websites, where pages are rendered on the server side, the web server hosting the application is configured with rewrite rules that redirect the user to a different URL. This redirection could be used when the content has moved to a new page, and in cases where certain pages of the site are still under construction. HTTP redirection is an expensive operation and thus the application's performance is also affected.

In single–page application (SPA), the redirection occurs on the browser, where the user is redirected to a different route based on a certain condition. This redirection is faster, since there's no HTTP roundtrip involved, and the transition is similar to navigating from one route...

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