React Router
A complete routing library for React.
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Important Notes
**** NPM USERS THIS PACKAGE MOVED ****
This package has moved from react-nested-router
to react-router
.
Update your package.json to point to the new package, or if you aren't
ready to update, make sure your package.json specifically points to
0.3.5
or less, 0.3.6
just throws an error telling you the package
has moved.
SemVer
Before our 1.0
release, breaking API changes will cause a bump to
0.x
. For example, 0.4.1
and 0.4.8
will have the same API, but
0.5.0
will have breaking changes.
Please refer to the upgrade guide and
changelog when upgrading.
Installation
npm install react-router
bower install react-router
This library is written with CommonJS modules. If you are using
browserify, webpack, or similar, you can consume it like anything else
installed from npm.
There is also a UMD build available on bower, find the library on
window.ReactRouter
.
Features
- Nested views mapped to nested routes
- Modular construction of route hierarchy
- Fully asynchronous transition hooks
- Transition abort / redirect / retry
- Dynamic segments
- Query parameters
- Links with automatic
.active
class when their route is active - Multiple root routes
- Hash or HTML5 history URLs
Check out the examples
directory to see how simple previously complex UI
and workflows are to create.
What's it look like?
React.renderComponent((
<Routes>
<Route handler={App}>
<Route name="about" handler={About}/>
<Route name="users" handler={Users}>
<Route name="user" path="/user/:userId" handler={User}/>
</Route>
</Route>
</Routes>
), document.body);
See more in the overview guide.
Benefits of This Approach
-
Incredible screen-creation productivity - There is only one
use-case when a user visits a route: render something. Every user
interface has layers (or nesting) whether its a simple navbar or
multiple levels of master-detail. Coupling nested routes to these
nested views gets rid of a ton of work for the developer to wire all
of it together when the user switches routes. Adding new screens
could not get faster.
-
Immediate understanding of application structure - When routes
are declared in one place, developers can easily construct a mental
image of the application. It's essentially a sitemap. There's not a
better way to get so much information about your app this quickly.
-
Code tractability - When a developer gets a ticket to fix a bug
at as specific url they simply 1) look at the route config, then 2)
go find the handler for that route. Every entry point into your
application is represented by these routes.
-
URLs are your first thought, not an after-thought - With React
Nested Router, you don't get UI on the page without configuring a url
first. Fortunately, its wildly productive this way, too.
Related Modules
Contributing
Please see CONTRIBUTING
Thanks, Ember
This library is highly inspired by the Ember.js routing API. In general,
its a translation of the Ember router api to React. Huge thanks to the
Ember team for solving the hardest part already.