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React router changes url but not view

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Does react router change URL?

The react-router-dom package is great for rendering different React components based on the url path. Therefore, React components can lead to others by changing the url path.

How do I change the default URL in react?

Use the Navigate element to set a default route with redirect in React Router, e.g. <Route path="/" element={<Navigate to="/dashboard" />} /> . The Navigate element changes the current location when it is rendered. Copied!

Does react router refresh the page?

react-router-dom allows us to navigate through different pages on our app with/without refreshing the entire component. By default, BrowserRouter in react-router-dom will not refresh the entire page.


You need to specify the attribute exact for your indexRoute, otherwise for even /details route it will still match with / . Also try to import Route from react-router-dom

import React from "react";
import ReactDOM from "react-dom";
import { BrowserRouter, Route } from 'react-router-dom';
import Users from "./components/Users";

import Details from "./components/Details";

ReactDOM.render((
  <BrowserRouter>
    <div>
        <Route exact path="/" component={Users} />
        <Route path="/details" component={Details} />
    </div>
  </BrowserRouter>
), document.getElementById('app'))

UPDATE:

Another thing that you need to do is to attach your component Users with withRouter. You need to make use of withRouter only when your component is not receiving the Router props,

This may happen in cases when your component is a nested child of a component rendered by the Router or you haven't passed the Router props to it or when the component is not linked to the Router at all and is rendered as a separate component from the Routes.

In Users.js add

import {withRouter} from 'react-router';

.........
export default withRouter(Users)

DOCS


You just have to wrap the components inside withRouter.

<Route exact path="/mypath" component={withRouter(MyComponent)} />

Here is a sample App.js file:

...
import { BrowserRouter as Router, Route, Switch, withRouter } from "react-router-dom";
import Home from "./pages/Home";
import Profile from "./pages/Profile";

class App extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <Router>
        <Switch>
          <Route exact path="/" component={withRouter(Home)} />
          <Route exact path="/profile" component={withRouter(Profile)} />
        </Switch>
      </Router>
    );
  }
}

export default App;

Additional

If you are using react router, componentWillReceiveProps will get called whenever the url changes.

componentWillReceiveProps(nextProps) {
    var currentProductId = nextProps.match.params.productId;
    var nextProductId = nextProps.match.params.productId; // from the new url
    ...
}

Note

Alternatively, you may also wrap the component in withRouter before exporting, but then you have to ensure a few other things. I usually skip this step.

export default withRouter(Profile)

I had the same issue and discovered that it was because I had a nested router. Once I removed the nested router, and simply put my component-specific routes within a switch component--the issue was resolved without having to use withRouter or make any additional changes.

<Router> // <--Remove nested Router
    <Switch>
      <Route exact path="/workflows" component={ViewWorkflows} />
      <Route path="/workflows/new" component={NewWorkflow} />
    </Switch>
</Router>

Yusufbek is describing a similar issue. I think it's a lot cleaner to store the component related routes at a view level versus storing all of them in one main router. In a production app, that's going to be way too many routes to easily read through and debug issues.


I have faced the same problem but I fixed it. I have placed the home page as the last. It works for me. Just like below.

    import React from "react";
    import ReactDOM from "react-dom";
    import { BrowserRouter } from 'react-router-dom';
    import Users from "./components/Users";
    import { Router, Route } from "react-router";
    import Details from "./components/Details";

    ReactDOM.render((
      <BrowserRouter>
        <div>
            <Route path="/details" component={Details} />
            <Route path="/" component={Users} />
        </div>
      </BrowserRouter>
    ), document.getElementById('app'))

I had a similar issue but with different structure. I've added one Router that will handle all routes, I've used Switch component to switch views. But actually, it didn't. Only URL changed but not view. The reason for this was the Link component used inside of SideBar component which was outside of the Router component. (Yes, I've exported SideBar with "withRouter", not worked). So, the solution was to move my SideBar component which holds, all Link components into my Router.

The problem is in my linkers, they are outside of my router

<div className="_wrapper">
  <SideBar /> // Holds my all linkers
  <Router>
     <Switch>
       <Route path="/" component={Home} />
       <Route path="/users" component={Users} />
     </Switch>
  </Router>
 </div>

Solution was moving my linkers into my router

<div className="_wrapper">
  <Router>
     <SideBar /> // Holds my all linkers
     <Switch>
       <Route path="/" component={Home} />
       <Route path="/users" component={Users} />
     </Switch>
  </Router>
</div>