redux-routable-react v1.0.5

Redux Routable React

React components that integrate with Redux Routable. Render content based on the current route, and declaratively link to different routes.

Overview

• Conditionally render content depending on the current route with the <Match> component.
• Navigate to locations within your application declaratively with the <Link> component.

Installation

npm install --save redux-routable-react

The redux-routable-react package is meant to be installed along with the redux-routable package.

Usage

Redux Routable React is a companion package for integrating React and Redux Routable. This means that before using Redux Routable React, you need create a router and a history object. See how to do that in Redux Routable's "Usage" section. For brevity, let's just define a router and leave out the rest of the setup:

import { Router, Route } from 'redux-routable'

const router = Router([
  Route('home', '/'),
  Route('cart', '/cart'),
  Route('search', '/search/:category?')
])

Initial Setup with the <Routable> Component

In order to use the <Match> and <Link> components throughout your application, you need to render the <Routable> component at the root of your application:

import React from 'react'
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom'
import { Routable } from 'redux-routable-react'
import { router, history } from './setup'
import App from './App'

const rootElement = document.getElementById('root')

ReactDOM.render(
  <Routable router={router} history={history}>
    <App />
  </Routable>,
  rootElement
)

Using the <Match> Component

You can use the <Match> component to conditionally render content based on the current route. Just pass a route name into the on prop to match on a specific route:

const App = () => (
  <React.Fragment>
    <Match on="home">I am on the home page!</Match>
    <Match on="cart">I am on the cart page!</Match>
  </React.Fragment>
)

So, if the location was /, you would see I am on the home page!, and if the location was /cart, you would see I am on the cart page!.

You can also pass an array of route names to the on prop to match on multiple routes:

const App = () => (
  <React.Fragment>
    <Match on="home">I am on the home page!</Match>
    <Match on={['cart', 'search']}>I am on another page!</Match>
  </React.Fragment>
)

Now, if the location was /, you would still see I am on the home page!, but if the location was /cart or /search/widgets, you would see I am on another page!.

Using the <Link> Component

The <Link> component can be used to render links that navigate around your application by route instead of by URL:

const App = () => (
  <React.Fragment>
    <Link route="home">Go Home</Link>
    <Link route="cart" hash="#saved">Go to Cart</Link>
    <Link route="search" params={{ category: 'widgets' }}>
      Search for Widgets
    </Link>
  </React.Fragment>
)

This would render the following HTML:

<a href="/">Go Home</a>
<a href="/cart#saved">Go to Cart</a>
<a href="/search/widgets">Search for Widgets</a>

As you can see, <Link> will render an <a> element, and the href attribute is set according to the route, params, and hash that were provided.

These links will function exactly like normal <a> links, except that when clicked with a normal left-click (no modifier keys held down), instead of navigating to a new page using standard browser behavior, a Redux Routable navigation action will be dispatched (PUSH by default, configurable through the action prop). This means that either the location will change without a page load (when action="push" or action="replace") or a new tab will be opened (when action="open"), and your reducers and middleware will receive the ROUTE_CHANGED action.

It's possible that either the route or params that you pass to a <Link> will not match with a route in the router configuration. If that is the case, an error will be logged, and the component will simply render null.

API

All components in this section are exported as named exports from the redux-routable-react package.

<Routable>

Component used to provide router and history to the rest of the application.

Props

<Match>

Component used to conditionally render content depending on the current route.

Props

<Link>

Component used to render links that can be used to navigate around the application.

Props

Any other props will be passed to the root <a> element.