In this chapter, we looked at how the <Link> and <NavLink> navigation components can be used to navigate to various routes defined in the application. These components render anchor links in the page, and, when the user clicks on these links, sections of the page are updated as opposed to doing a complete page reload, thus providing a lucid user experience. The <Link> component accepts the props to, replace, and innerRef.
The <NavLink> component is similar to the <Link> component, and it accepts all the props that the <Link> component works with. In addition to adding a link to the page, the <NavLink> component accepts several props—activeClassName, activeStyle, exact, strict, and isActive.
To create links to the nested routes, the <Link> and <NavLink> components can use the prefix match.url in the to prop....
