React Router Basic Nav

Topics:

• Single Page Applications
• React Router V4 (react-router-dom)
• Routing, declarative component based routing
• Path and Component

• A starter pack project for all things React Router. Learn to set up a basic routing system within an application. Use this application to help guide your learning over the next couple of days.
• Note that this project has already been boilerplated for you. There is no need to run any installation steps beyond yarn install.

[x] cd into the repository and run yarn install [x] run yarn start

• You'll notice we've already installed react-router-dom for you. [x] import your BrowserRouter as Router inside your index.js file. [x] Wrap your <App /> component that you're passing to ReactDOM.render() with your new Router component. [x] open up your chrome REACT DEV TOOLS and notice your app is now all wrapped in BrowserRouter [x] inside the REACT DEV TOOLS expand <BrowserRouter> and highlight <Router> and notice that here is a "history" object on props and a "match" object on its state. These two objects are how all of our Router is going to work.

[x] Inside of your App.js file import { Route } from 'react-router-dom';

• This is where we're going to declare and specify our router. [x] Create 3 <Route /> setting their path prop equal to /, /about, /contact with their respective components. [x] Be sure to include the exact prop on the root component for / to make sure that it's rendering the exact component and not all the other components.

[x] Inside of Navigation.js import { Link } from 'react-router-dom'. [x] Declare the to as the href on <Link> and specify the correct routes for your app to navigate towards. [x] Head over to your app and start navigating. You should be able to see your URLS changing their paths as you go. Each path should display the proper component.

• Code Sandbox from Lecture
• React Router 4 Quick Start Guide