react-router is not rendering anything

Question

I created my app with create-react-app and trying to use react-router on it. but it's not working at all.

Here's my Header.js.

  import React, { Component } from 'react';

class Header extends Component {
    render() {
        return (
          <nav>
                <div className="nav-wrapper blue darken-1">
                    <a className="brand-logo center">Testing</a>

                    <div className="right">
                        <ul>
                            <li>
                                <a><i className="material-icons">vpn_key</i></a>
                            </li>
                            <li>
                                <a><i className="material-icons">lock_open</i></a>
                            </li>
                        </ul>
                    </div>
                </div>
            </nav>
        );
    }
}

export default Header;

my App.js.

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import Header from './Header';

class App extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <div className="App">
        <div className="Header">
        <Header />
        {this.props.children}
        </div>
      </div>
    );
  }
};

export default App;

and my index.js here.

import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import { Router, Route, browserHistory, IndexRoute } from 'react-router';
import App from './App';
import Home from './Home';
import Login from './Login';
import Register from './Register';

ReactDOM.render((
  <Router history={browserHistory}>
        <Route path="/" component={App}>
            <IndexRoute component={Home}/>
            <Route path="/home" component={Home}/>
            <Route path="/login" component={Login}/>
            <Route path="/register" component={Register}/>
        </Route>
    </Router>),
  document.getElementById('root')
);

• Don't worry about Home, Login, Register thing on index.js. They are super fine.

Am I doing something wrong?

Answer 1

Ho if you're v4* of react-router it won't work that way you should install react-router-dom and import it.

That's the way I did it

import {BrowserRouter, Route} from 'react-router-dom';


//modified code of yours
ReactDOM.render((
     <BrowserRouter>
       <div>
         <Route path="/" component={App}>
           <IndexRoute component={Home}/>
           <Route path="/home" component={Home}/>
           <Route path="/login" component={Login}/>
           <Route path="/register" component={Register}/>
         </Route>
      </div>
    </BrowserRouter>),
    document.getElementById('root'));

Note: Don't forget to wrap the route in a wrapper or it'll throw an error!

and to set 404 page just provide another route without any path to it.If no routes found it will be rendered.

<Route component={FourOhFour} /> /* FourOhFour component as 404*/

** Bonus point If you're new to react-router you may fall in a problem of rendering multiple routes at the same time. But you want to render only one route at a time. at this point.

/*Import Switch also*/
import {BrowserRouter, Route, Switch} from 'react-router-dom';

Then

/*Wrap your route with `Switch` component*/
<BrowserRouter>
    <div>
        <Switch>
            <IndexRoute component={Home}/>
            <Route path="/" component={App}/>
            <Route path="/home" component={Home}/>
            <Route path="/login" component={Login}/>
            <Route path="/register" component={Register}/>
         </Switch>
    </div>
</BrowserRouter>