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I'm pretty new to react and webpack, and I'm trying to use react-router-dom for routing in my web app.
But something weird happens, when I defined the path for my component to '/:guid' everything works fine, but if I set it to '/users/:guid' I'm getting a blank page when I refresh the page.
I read some posts that said to add 'publicPath' and 'historyApiFallback: true' to my webpack.config.js but it still doesn't work for some reason. although, before adding it, I got 'cannot GET url' error.
Router.js:
import React from 'react';
import {BrowserRouter, Route, Switch} from 'react-router-dom';
import UserInfo from '../Containers/UserInfo/UserInfo';
import Main from './Main/Main';
const Router = () => {
return (
<BrowserRouter>
<Switch>
<Route exact path='/' component={Main} />
<Route path='/users/:guid' component={UserInfo} />
</Switch>
</BrowserRouter>
);
};
export default Router;
webpack.config.js:
const path = require('path');
const DIST_DIR = path.resolve(__dirname, 'dist');
const SRC_DIR = path.resolve(__dirname, 'src');
const config = {
entry: `${SRC_DIR}/app/index.js`,
output: {
path: `${DIST_DIR}/`,
filename: 'bundle.js',
publicPath: '/'
},
module: {
rules: [
{
test: /\.js?$/,
include: SRC_DIR,
loader: 'babel-loader',
query: {
presets: ['react', 'es2015', 'stage-2']
}
},
{
test: /\.css$/,
use: ['style-loader', 'css-loader']
}
]
},
devServer: {
historyApiFallback: true
}
};
module.exports = config;
839
asked Apr 24 '26 02:04
Well, after some more research, I got to this github webpack-dev-server issue page that suggests to add a <base /> to my "index.html" file:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge">
<title>React Training Project</title>
<base href="/">
</head>
<body>
<div id="app"></div>
<script src="./bundle.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
Apparently this is what I was missing.
142
answered Apr 25 '26 21:04
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