React-Router - Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'getCurrentLocation' of undefined

Question

I'm using the latest version of react-router (version ^3.0.0).

I wrote the following routing using ES5:

routes.js:

var React = require("react");
var Router = require("react-router");
var AuthorPage = require('./components/authors/authorPage')
var App = require('./components/app')
var Route = Router.Route;

var routes = (
    <Route path="/" component={App}>
        <Route path="authors" component={AuthorPage}/>
     </Route>
);

module.exports = routes;

In another JS file called main.js I perform the following call:

main.js:

var React= require("react");
var ReactDom = require("react-dom");
var Router = require('react-router').Router;
var routes = require('./routes');
ReactDom.render(<Router routes={routes}></Router>, document.getElementById('app'));

When I run the code I get the following exception in Google Chrome developer tools:

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'getCurrentLocation' of undefined

Why is that? What am I missing?

Solution 1

You are not passing a history to your <Router>.

Check out the histories documentation for more information.

Solution 2

Had the same error, solved it this way:

Add

var hashHistory = ReactRouter.hashHistory;

And in the Router set the history equals to hashHistory

<Router history={hashHistory}>

So in your case:

var routes = (
<Router history={hashHistory}>
    <Route path="/" component={App}>
        <Route path="authors" component={AuthorPage}/>
     </Route>
</Router>
);