Why can I not nest Route components in react-router 4.x?
Solution 1
Forget what you know about React Router < v4. You nest routes by literally nesting <Routes>
. Check this example. Specifically check out the Topics component. You don't declare your routes up front but instead dynamically when a component renders.
import React from 'react'
import {
BrowserRouter as Router,
Route,
Link
} from 'react-router-dom'
const BasicExample = () => (
<Router>
<div>
<ul>
<li><Link to="/">Home</Link></li>
<li><Link to="/about">About</Link></li>
<li><Link to="/topics">Topics</Link></li>
</ul>
<hr/>
<Route exact path="/" component={Home}/>
<Route path="/about" component={About}/>
<Route path="/topics" component={Topics}/>
</div>
</Router>
)
const Home = () => (
<div>
<h2>Home</h2>
</div>
)
const About = () => (
<div>
<h2>About</h2>
</div>
)
const Topics = ({ match }) => (
<div>
<h2>Topics</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<Link to={`${match.url}/rendering`}>
Rendering with React
</Link>
</li>
<li>
<Link to={`${match.url}/components`}>
Components
</Link>
</li>
<li>
<Link to={`${match.url}/props-v-state`}>
Props v. State
</Link>
</li>
</ul>
{/* NESTED ROUTES */}
<Route path={`${match.url}/:topicId`} component={Topic}/>
<Route exact path={match.url} render={() => (
<h3>Please select a topic.</h3>
)}/>
</div>
)
const Topic = ({ match }) => (
<div>
<h3>{match.params.topicId}</h3>
</div>
)
export default BasicExample
Solution 2
With react-router v4 and v5 you can also use the render
prop to nest routes
<Route
path='/stuff'
render={({ match: { url } }) => (
<>
<Route path={`${url}/`} component={Stuff} exact />
<Route path={`${url}/a`} component={StuffA} />
</>
)}
/>
In my opinion this syntax ends up more readable in most situations, compared to splitting out the sub-routes into a separately defined component passed in through the component
prop.
I posted a similar answer here but noticed this question also has a lot of views and so thought it would be helpful to port it here.
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Comments
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scniro over 1 year
How in the world does one use nested routes in react-router, specifically, version 4.x? The following worked well in previous versions...
<Route path='/stuff' component={Stuff}> <Route path='/stuff/a' component={StuffA} /> </Route>
Upgrading to 4.x throws the following warning...
Warning: You should not use <Route> component and <Route children> in the same route; <Route children> will be ignored
What in the heck is going on here? I've scoured the docs for hours and can not successfully get nested routes working. How does one use
<Route>
components to nest their routes in react-router v4? How does my simplistic example translate to v4.x API compliance to nest a route?-
paqash about 7 yearsPossible duplicate of Nested routes with react router v4
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scniro about 7 yearsAwesome thank you for a detailed answer. I'll get back to your tomorrow when I get as chance to check this out - but your example looks promising. I must say I am really disappointed with the api changes and will likely go without this library.
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Tyler McGinnis about 7 yearsNo worries. Give V4 a chance. It'll feel a little weird at first, but there's a very good reason the API was changed to this. It's much more powerful and is "just components".
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scniro about 7 yearsI looked into this and it indeed works well. However, ran into more problems with my active class styling conflicting with children. After headdeaking for a good while, I started over with router5, which, comes with its own maddening baggage. Wish routing in react was stupid simple such as ui-router was in angular 1.x. Anyways, thank you!
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Shawn Mclean about 7 years@scniro Thanks for pointing out router5, looking into that now. React-router messed up on even breadcrumbs and other dependencies we had.
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Dimo over 6 years@TylerMcGinnis is it possible to nest a route like
path={`${match.url}/:topicId/edit`}
that will show a new page where you can edit the topic and which does not inherit layout from theTopicId
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PositiveGuy over 6 yearsreact-router v4 is terrible. It also couples your tests to the router . So even if your testing behavior that's not related to custom routes, your tests are forced to know about react-router as a dependency and you have to wrap your tests with MemoryRouter which is terrible. Leaky as hell and your tests become even less isolated and coupled to this crap
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PositiveGuy over 6 yearsthat's a bad example let me update that. I have another that does not have that check, same setup and still works