Material-UI's Tabs integration with react router 4?

Question

Another solution (https://codesandbox.io/s/l4yo482pll) with no handlers nor HOCs, just pure react-router and material-ui components:

import React, { Fragment } from "react";
import ReactDOM from "react-dom";
import Tabs from "@material-ui/core/Tabs";
import Tab from "@material-ui/core/Tab";
import { Switch, Route, Link, BrowserRouter, Redirect } from "react-router-dom";

function App() {
  const allTabs = ['/', '/tab2', '/tab3'];

  return (
    <BrowserRouter>
      <div className="App">
        <Route
          path="/"
          render={({ location }) => (
            <Fragment>
              <Tabs value={location.pathname}>
                <Tab label="Item One" value="/" component={Link} to={allTabs[0]} />
                <Tab label="Item Two" value="/tab2" component={Link} to={allTabs[1]} />
                <Tab
                  value="/tab3"
                  label="Item Three"
                  component={Link}
                  to={allTabs[2]}
                />
              </Tabs>
              <Switch>
                <Route path={allTabs[1]} render={() => <div>Tab 2</div>} />
                <Route path={allTabs[2]} render={() => <div>Tab 3</div>} />
                <Route path={allTabs[0]} render={() => <div>Tab 1</div>} />
              </Switch>
            </Fragment>
          )}
        />
      </div>
    </BrowserRouter>
  );
}

const rootElement = document.getElementById("root");
ReactDOM.render(<App />, rootElement);

My instructor helped me with using React Router 4.0's withRouter to wrap the Tabs component to enable history methods like so:

import React, {Component} from "react";
import {Tabs, Tab} from 'material-ui';
import { withRouter } from "react-router-dom";

import Home from "./Home";
import Portfolio from "./Portfolio";

class NavTabs extends Component {

 handleCallToRouter = (value) => {
   this.props.history.push(value);
 }

  render () {
     return (
      <Tabs
        value={this.props.history.location.pathname}
        onChange={this.handleCallToRouter}
        >
        <Tab
          label="Home"
          value="/"
        >
        <div>
           <Home />
        </div>
        </Tab>
        <Tab
          label="Portfolio"
          value="/portfolio"
            >
          <div>
            <Portfolio />
          </div>
        </Tab>
      </Tabs>           
    )
  }
}

export default withRouter(NavTabs)  

Simply add BrowserRouter to index.js and you're good to go.

The error you are seeing from material-ui is because it expects to have a <Tab> component rendered as direct child of <Tabs> component.

Now, here is a way that I've found to integrate the link into the <Tabs> component without loosing the styles:

import React, {Component} from 'react';
import {Tabs, Tab} from 'material-ui/Tabs';
import {Link} from 'react-router-dom';

export default class MyComponent extends Component {
    render() {
        const {location} = this.props;
        const {pathname} = location;

        return (
            <Tabs value={pathname}>
                <Tab label="First tab" containerElement={<Link to="/my-firs-tab-view" />} value="/my-firs-tab-view">
                    {/* insert your component to be rendered inside the tab here */}
                </Tab>
                <Tab label="Second tab" containerElement={<Link to="/my-second-tab-view" />} value="/my-second-tab-view">
                    {/* insert your component to be rendered inside the tab here */}
                </Tab>
            </Tabs>
        );
    }
}

To manage the 'active' property for the tabs, you can use the value property in the <Tabs> component and you also need to have a value property for each tab, so when both of the properties match, it will apply the active style to that tab.

Here's another solution, using the beta of Material 1.0 and adding browser Back/Forward to the mix:

import React from 'react';
import PropTypes from 'prop-types';
import { withStyles } from 'material-ui/styles';
import AppBar from 'material-ui/AppBar';
import Tabs, { Tab } from 'material-ui/Tabs';
import { withRouter } from "react-router-dom";
import Home from "./Home";
import Portfolio from "./Portfolio";

function TabContainer(props) {
  return <div style={{ padding: 20 }}>{props.children}</div>;
}

const styles = theme => ({
  root: {
    flexGrow: 1,
    width: '100%',
    marginTop: theme.spacing.unit * 3,
    backgroundColor: theme.palette.background.paper,
  },
});

class NavTabs extends React.Component {
  state = {
    value: "/",
  };

  componentDidMount() {
    window.onpopstate = ()=> {
      this.setState({
        value: this.props.history.location.pathname
      });
  }
}

  handleChange = (event, value) => {
    this.setState({ value });
    this.props.history.push(value);
  };

  render() {
    const { classes } = this.props;
    const { value } = this.state;

    return (
      <div className={classes.root}>
        <AppBar position="static" color="default">
          <Tabs
            value={value}
            onChange={this.handleChange}
            scrollable
            scrollButtons="on"
            indicatorColor="primary"
            textColor="primary"
          >
            <Tab label="Home" value = "/" />
            <Tab label="Portfolio" value = "/portfolio"/>
          </Tabs>
        </AppBar>
        {value === "/" && <TabContainer>{<Home />}</TabContainer>}
        {value === "/portfolio" && <TabContainer>{<Portfolio />}</TabContainer>}
      </div>
    );
  }
}

NavTabs.propTypes = {
  classes: PropTypes.object.isRequired,
};

export default withRouter(withStyles(styles)(NavTabs));

You can use browserHistory instead of React-Router Link component

import { browserHistory } from 'react-router'

// Go to /some/path.
onClick(label) {
  browserHistory.push('/${label}');
}

// Example for Go back
//browserHistory.goBack()

<Tabs>
  <Tab
    label={label}
    onActive={() => onClick(label)}
  />
</Tabs>

As you see you can simply push() your target to the browserHistory