Skip to content

Instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

@delilahrois

delilahrois/React_Router_prework.md

Forked from kaylagordon/React_Router_prework.md
Last active December 7, 2021 15:53
Show Gist options

  • Select an option

    Learn more about clone URLs
  • Save delilahrois/c4aaefd0c392ce540e7155b527f39a89 to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.

Select an option

Learn more about clone URLs
Save delilahrois/c4aaefd0c392ce540e7155b527f39a89 to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
Download ZIP
Raw
React_Router_prework.md

React Router Prework

This gist contains a short assignment we'd like everyone to complete before our formal lesson. The prework involves reading some of the React Router documentation, and will allow us to keep the lesson more hands on.

Instructions

  1. Fork this gist
  2. On your own copy, go through the listed readings and answer associated questions

You will not be turning this in; it's for your own understanding/learning/benefit 😁

Questions / Readings

Router Overview

React Router is a library that allows us to make our single page React applications mimic the behavior of multipage apps. It provides the ability to use browser history, allowing users to navigate with forward / back buttons and bookmark links to specific views of the app. Most modern sites use some form of routing. React Router exposes this functionality through a series of components. Let's start by looking at the overall structure of an app using router:

Read through this guide.

Router Components

React Router provides a series of helpful components that allow our apps to use routing. These can be split into roughly 3 categories:

  • Routers
  • Route Matcher
  • Route Changers

Routers

Any code that uses a React-Router-provided component must be wrapped in a router component. There are lots of router components we can use, but we'll focus on one in particular. Let's look into the docs to learn more.

  1. What is a <BrowserRouter />?

BrowserRouter uses the history API object generated by {} to keep the user interface in sync with the URL currently in the address bar.

Route Matchers

  1. What does the <Route /> component do?

The Route component renders something based on the url in the address bar. For example, it will render "App" or "Home" if the url matches the given ("/").

  1. What does the <Routes /> component do?

The Routes component is a wrapper for the Route components.

  1. What does the <Outlet /> component do?

Route Changers

  1. What does the <Link /> component do? How does a user interact with it?

The Link component holds links that the user can click on to navigate to the given address. It renders an tag with an href behind the scenes, making it fully accessible for people using screen readers.

  1. What does the <NavLink /> component do? How does a user interact with it?
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment