How to use React Router with Preact

Question

I'm using Preact as my View framework (can NOT use React due to the Facebook IP problems). I needed to use React Router for the location routing because it has more flexibility than the Preact Router that the same team built.

I managed to get React Router to accept Preact in place of React, however, I can't get it to match locations. I'm not sure if it's a compatibility problem, or a configuration problem. I've tried using just one pair of routes ( App and Account ) and it still doesn't work with that simplified setup.

Q: Does anyone see if I'm doing something wrong here?

The error I get is: Location "/account/12345/" did not match any routes

main.js

import { h, render } from 'preact';
import { Router, browserHistory } from 'react-router';
import { Provider } from 'react-redux';

import createStore from './createStore';
import createRoutes from './createRoutes';

process.env.DEBUG && console.log('Hello, developer!');

const history = browserHistory;
const store = createStore( history );
const routes = createRoutes( store );

render((
    <Provider store={ store } key="redux-provider">
        <Router history={ history } createElement={ h } routes={ routes } />
    </Provider>
), document.body );

createRoutes.js

import { h } from 'preact';
import { IndexRoute, Route } from 'react-router';

// App Component
import App from './components/app';

// Sub Components
import Account from './components/account';
import Conversation from './components/conversation';
import Dashboard from './components/dashboard';

// Error Components
import BadAccount from './components/bad-account';
import NotFound from './components/not-found';

// Routes
export default ()=> (
    <Route path="/" component={App}>
        {/* Get URL parameter */}
        <Route path="account/:accountID" component={Account}>
            {/* Index Route */}
            <IndexRoute component={Dashboard} />
            {/* Sub Routes ( Alphabetical Please ) */}
            <Route path="chat" component={Conversation} />
            {/* Catch-All Route */}
            <Route path="*" component={NotFound} />
        </Route>
        {/* Handle Invalid URIs */}
        <Route path="*" component={BadAccount} />
    </Route>
);

createStore.js

import { applyMiddleware, combineReducers, compose, createStore } from 'redux';
import thunk from 'redux-thunk';
import { routerMiddleware } from 'react-router-redux';

import messages from './resources/messages/reducer';
import conversation from './resources/conversation/reducer';
import layout from './resources/layout/reducer';
import profile from './resources/profile/reducer';
import contract from './resources/contract/reducer';

/*const { devToolsExtension } = window;*/

export default history => {

    // Sync dispatched route actions to the history
    const reduxRouterMiddleware = routerMiddleware( history );

    // Create single reducer from all modules
    const rootReducer = combineReducers({
        messages,
        conversation,
        layout,
        profile,
        contract
    });

    // List redux middleware to inject
    const middleware = [
        thunk,
        reduxRouterMiddleware
    ];

    // Compose the createStore function
    const createComposedStore = compose(
        applyMiddleware( ...middleware )/*, // Figure this out...
        ( process.env.DEBUG && devToolsExtension ) ? devToolsExtension() : f => f*/
    )( createStore );

    // Create the store
    const store = createComposedStore( rootReducer );

    // Hook up Redux Routing middleware
    // reduxRouterMiddleware.listenForReplays(store);

    // Return store
    return store;
};

Answer 1

Updated answer is there is a preact-router package now: https://www.npmjs.com/package/preact-router

import Router from 'preact-router';
import { h } from 'preact';

const Main = () => (
  <Router>
    <Home path="/" />
    <About path="/about" />
    <Search path="/search/:query" />
  </Router>
);

render(<Main />, document.body);