React Router V6 - Error: useRoutes() may be used only in the context of a <Router> component

Question

I have installed react-router-domV6-beta. By following the example from a website I am able to use the new option useRoutes I have setup page routes and returning them in the App.js file.

After saving I am getting the following error:

Error: useRoutes() may be used only in the context of a component.

I am wondering If I am missing something here? I have created the pages inside the src/pages folder.

My code:

import { BrowserRouter, Link, Outlet, useRoutes } from 'react-router-dom';

// Pages
import Home from './pages/Home';
import About from './pages/About';
import Services from './pages/Services';
import Gallery from './pages/Gallery';
import Prices from './pages/Prices';
import Contact from './pages/Contact';

const App = () => {
    const routes = useRoutes([
        { path: '/', element: <Home /> },
        { path: 'o-nama', element: <About /> },
        { path: 'usluge', element: <Services /> },
        { path: 'galerija', element: <Gallery /> },
        { path: 'cjenovnik', element: <Prices /> },
        { path: 'kontakt', element: <Contact /> }
    ]);

    return routes;
};

export default App;

Answer 1

I think the problem is that you still need to wrap routes (Routes / useRoutes) inside a Router element.

So an example would look something like this:

import React from "react";
import {
  BrowserRouter as Router,
  Routes,
  Route,
  useRoutes,
} from "react-router-dom";

const Component1 = () => {
  return <h1>Component 1</h1>;
};

const Component2 = () => {
  return <h1>Component 2</h1>;
};

const App = () => {
  let routes = useRoutes([
    { path: "/", element: <Component1 /> },
    { path: "component2", element: <Component2 /> },
    // ...
  ]);
  return routes;
};

const AppWrapper = () => {
  return (
    <Router>
      <App />
    </Router>
  );
};

export default AppWrapper;

Refactor according to your needs.

Answer 2

You should have a <BrowserRouter> (or any of the provided routers) higher up in the tree. The reason for this is that the <BrowserRouter> provides a history context which is needed at the time the routes are created using useRoutes(). Note that higher up means that it can't be in the <App> itself, but at least in the component that renders it.

Here's what your entry point could look like:

import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import { BrowserRouter } from 'react-router-dom';


ReactDOM.render(
  <BrowserRouter>
    <App />
  </BrowserRouter>,
  document.getElementById('root'),
);