How to use react-router-redux routeActions?

Question

I'm trying to modify the example code of react-router-redux. https://github.com/rackt/react-router-redux/blob/master/examples/basic/components/Home.js

this is my Home.js

class Home extends Component {
    onSubmit(props) {
        this.props.routeActions.push('/foo');    
    }
}

I also have a mapDispatchToProps for it.

function mapDispatchToProps(dispatch){
    return bindActionCreators({ routeActions },dispatch);
}

When i called onSubmit function, I got an error

Uncaught TypeError: this.props.routeActions.push is not a function

If i remove this.props in onSubmit, the key in the URL changed but its still on the same page. From localhost:8080/#/?_k=iwio19 to localhost:8080/#/?_k=ldn1ew

Anyone know how to fix it? Appreciate it.

Answer 1

I don't think routeActions are passed as props. What you want to do is this:

import { routeActions } from 'react-router-redux'

this.props.dispatch(routeActions.push('/foo'));

Answer 2

To provide a little more explicit answer and the answer to my own question in the comment.

Yes you can do

import { routeActions } from 'react-router-redux'

this.props.dispatch(routeActions.push('/foo));

However as I mentioned mapDispatchToProps will override this. To fix this you can bind the routeActions like so:

import { bindActionCreators } from 'redux'
import { routeActions } from 'react-router-redux'

function mapDispatchToProps(dispatch) {
    return {
        routeActions: bindActionCreators(routeActions, dispatch),
    }
}

export default connect(null, mapDispatchToProps)(YourComponent)

Now you can do: this.props.routeActions.push('/foo')

Just FYI this can be done even neater

function mapDispatchToProps(dispatch) {
    return {
        ...bindActions({routeActions, anotherAction}, dispatch)
    }
}