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Create a multiple-pages React application with Reach Router

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Intro to React Hooks

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Create your first React app

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React Component

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Styling in React

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Styles and Props

2:22

Understanding Hooks

3:21

useState Hook

2:54

useEffect Hook

3:41

useRef Hook

3:00

Props

3:11

Conditional Rendering

4:21

Load Local Data

4:04

Fetch Data from an API

5:40

Toggle a state

4:05

useInput Hook

6:04

Gatsby and React

6:44

NextJS and React

5:24

React TypeScript Part 1

8:19

React TypeScript Part 2

7:35

useScrollPosition Hook

4:26

useOnScreen hook

8:08

useContext Hook

8:32

Fragments

2:43

Lazy Loading

4:05

React Suspense

3:13

Environment Variables

4:43

Reach Router

5:31

URL Params

4:04

SEO and Metadata

6:47

Favicon

3:03

Dynamic Favicon

2:14

PropTypes

3:54

Custom PropTypes

3:58

useMemo Hook

4:05

forwardRef Hook

3:28

Handling Events

5:44

Spread attributes

3:35

useMousePosition Hook

4:55

useReducer with useContext Part 1

7:33

useReducer with useContext Part 2

6:48

useReducer with useContext Part 3

5:43

Netlify

5:08

Gatsby Cloud

6:19

Gatsby Plugin Image

8:11

useOnClickOutside Hook

6:32

useWindowSize Hook

4:14

usePageBottom hook

4:48

useLocalStorage Hook

5:27

Three.js in React Part 1

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Three.js in React Part 2

11:18

CodeSandbox link

You can find the full code for this tutorial at https://codesandbox.io/s/reach-router-vnxwc.

Reach Router

Reach Router is a library based on React Router and lets us easily create a navigation in our application. It allows us to link one page to different paths and components. For example, we can create a Courses component and link it to the /courses path of our website.

Install the package

In the Terminal, install the package by running the following command:

npm install @reach/router

Create a few pages

Create a few components that will be the pages you'll add to your router.

// Home.js

import React from "react";

const Home = () => {
  return (
    <div>
      <h1>Home page</h1>
    </div>
  );
};

export default Home;

// Courses.js

import React from "react";

const Courses = () => {
  return (
    <div>
      <h1>Courses page</h1>
    </div>
  );
};

export default Courses;

Create your Router

In App.js, import Router from Reach Router and the pages you just created.

// App.js

import { Router } from "@reach/router";

import Home from "./Home";
import Courses from "./Courses";

Wrap the body of your App component with a Router. This lets React know this is a navigation with different routes. Inside of the Router, add your components. For each component, provide a path attribute, that'll let Reach Router know the URL linked to that page.

// App.js

const App = () => {
  return (
    <Router>
      <Home path="/" />
      <Courses path="/courses" />
    </Router>
  );
};

For example, to access the Home page, the user needs to go to the path /, which is the root of my website. To access the courses page, they need to go to the /courses path.

Link

Reach Router also comes with Link, which allows us to easily navigate from one view to another. Import it at the top of the Home.js file.

// Home.js

import { Link } from "@reach/router";

In your Home component, add a Link. When the user clicks on the Link, it'll lead them to the courses page, since we added /courses in the to attribute.

// Home.js

<Link to="/courses">Go to courses</Link>

You can do the same for the courses page, and add a Link to the Home page.

// Courses.js

<Link to="/">Go to Home</Link>

Not found page

To create a not found page, create your NotFound component first.

// NotFound.js

import React from "react";

const NotFound = () => {
  return (
    <div>
      <h1>Sorry, page not found</h1>

      <Link to="/">Go to Home</Link>
    </div>
  );
};

export default NotFound;

In App.js, import the NotFound component.

// App.js

import NotFound from "./NotFound";

Inside of the router, add the NotFound component with a default attribute, meaning that by default, if React can't find the component, it'll show the NotFound page.

// App.js

<NotFound default />

Going further

In this tutorial, we learned how to create a simple navigation in a React application using a router. Still using a router, we can easily create a custom URL with a unique ID. For example, if you create a shopping website, you might want a unique URL for each product in your store. This can be done with URL params. You can learn more about it in the URL Params tutorial.

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