How to do a redirect to another route with react-router?

Question

I am trying to do A SIMPLE using react-router ( version ^1.0.3 ) to redirect to another view.

import React from 'react';
import {Router, Route, Link, RouteHandler} from 'react-router';


class HomeSection extends React.Component {

  static contextTypes = {
    router: PropTypes.func.isRequired
  };

  constructor(props, context) {
    super(props, context);
  }

  handleClick = () => {
    console.log('HERE!', this.contextTypes);
    // this.context.location.transitionTo('login');
  };

  render() {
    return (
      <Grid>
        <Row className="text-center">          
          <Col md={12} xs={12}>
            <div className="input-group">
              <span className="input-group-btn">
                <button onClick={this.handleClick} type="button">
                </button>
              </span>
            </div>
          </Col>
        </Row>
      </Grid>
    );
  }
};

HomeSection.contextTypes = {
  location() {
    React.PropTypes.func.isRequired
  }
}

export default HomeSection;

all I need is to send the use to '/login' and that's it.

What can I do ?

errors in console:

Uncaught ReferenceError: PropTypes is not defined

file with my routes

// LIBRARY
/*eslint-disable no-unused-vars*/
import React from 'react';
/*eslint-enable no-unused-vars*/
import {Route, IndexRoute} from 'react-router';

// COMPONENT
import Application from './components/App/App';
import Contact from './components/ContactSection/Contact';
import HomeSection from './components/HomeSection/HomeSection';
import NotFoundSection from './components/NotFoundSection/NotFoundSection';
import TodoSection from './components/TodoSection/TodoSection';
import LoginForm from './components/LoginForm/LoginForm';
import SignupForm from './components/SignupForm/SignupForm';

export default (
    <Route component={Application} path='/'>
      <IndexRoute component={HomeSection} />
      <Route component={HomeSection} path='home' />
      <Route component={TodoSection} path='todo' />
      <Route component={Contact} path='contact' />
      <Route component={LoginForm} path='login' />
      <Route component={SignupForm} path='signup' />
      <Route component={NotFoundSection} path='*' />
    </Route>
);

Answer 1

1) react-router > V6 useNavigate hook:

If you have React >= 16.8 and functional components you can use the useNavigate hook from react-router.

import React from 'react';
import { useNavigate } from "react-router-dom";

const YourComponent = () => {
    const navigate = useNavigate();

    const handleClick = () => {
        navigate("/path/to/push");
    }

    return (
        <div>
            <button onClick={handleClick} type="button" />
        </div>
    );
}

export default YourComponent;

2) react-router > V5 useHistory hook:

If you have react-router v5 and functional components you can use the useHistory hook from react-router.

import React from 'react';
import { useHistory } from 'react-router-dom';

const YourComponent = () => {
    const history = useHistory();

    const handleClick = () => {
        history.push("/path/to/push");
    }

    return (
        <div>
            <button onClick={handleClick} type="button" />
        </div>
    );
}

export default YourComponent;

3) react-router > V4 withRouter HOC:

As @ambar mentioned in the comments, React-router has changed its codebase since its V4. Here is the documentation for withRouter

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { withRouter } from "react-router-dom";

class YourComponent extends Component {
    handleClick = () => {
        this.props.history.push("path/to/push");
    }

    render() {
        return (
            <div>
                <button onClick={this.handleClick} type="button">
            </div>
        );
    };
}

export default withRouter(YourComponent);

4) React-router < V4 with browserHistory

You can achieve this functionality using react-router BrowserHistory. Code below:

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { browserHistory } from 'react-router-dom';

export default class YourComponent extends Component {
    handleClick = () => {
        browserHistory.push('/login');
    };

    render() {
        return (
            <div>
                <button onClick={this.handleClick} type="button">
            </div>
        );
    };
}

5) Redux connected-react-router

If you have connected your component with redux, and have configured connected-react-router all you have to do is this.props.history.push("/new/url"); ie, you don't need withRouter HOC to inject history to the component props.

// reducers.js
import { combineReducers } from 'redux';
import { connectRouter } from 'connected-react-router';

export default (history) => combineReducers({
    router: connectRouter(history),
    ... // rest of your reducers
});


// configureStore.js
import { createBrowserHistory } from 'history';
import { applyMiddleware, compose, createStore } from 'redux';
import { routerMiddleware } from 'connected-react-router';
import createRootReducer from './reducers';
...
export const history = createBrowserHistory();

export default function configureStore(preloadedState) {
    const store = createStore(
        createRootReducer(history), // root reducer with router state
        preloadedState,
        compose(
            applyMiddleware(
                routerMiddleware(history), // for dispatching history actions
                // ... other middlewares ...
            ),
        ),
    );

    return store;
}


// set up other redux requirements like for eg. in index.js
import { Provider } from 'react-redux';
import { Route, Switch } from 'react-router-dom';
import { ConnectedRouter } from 'connected-react-router';
import configureStore, { history } from './configureStore';
...
const store = configureStore(/* provide initial state if any */)

ReactDOM.render(
    <Provider store={store}>
        <ConnectedRouter history={history}>
            <> { /* your usual react-router v4/v5 routing */ }
                <Switch>
                    <Route exact path="/yourPath" component={YourComponent} />
                </Switch>
            </>
        </ConnectedRouter>
    </Provider>,
    document.getElementById('root')
);


// YourComponent.js
import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { connect } from 'react-redux';
...

class YourComponent extends Component {
    handleClick = () => {
        this.props.history.push("path/to/push");
    }

    render() {
        return (
          <div>
            <button onClick={this.handleClick} type="button">
          </div>
        );
      }
    };

}

export default connect(mapStateToProps = {}, mapDispatchToProps = {})(YourComponent);

Answer 2

For the simple answer, you can use Link component from react-router, instead of button. There is ways to change the route in JS, but seems you don't need that here.

<span className="input-group-btn">
  <Link to="/login" />Click to login</Link>
</span>

To do it programmatically in 1.0.x, you do like this, inside your clickHandler function:

this.history.pushState(null, 'login');

Taken from upgrade doc here

You should have this.history placed on your route handler component by react-router. If it child component beneath that mentioned in routes definition, you may need pass that down further