Itsy bitsy router

Itsy bitsy router is a very opiniated solution for routing in react applications. It is not compatible with IE and never will be.

Install

You know the drill.

yarn add itsy-bitsy-router

Usage

You will need to declare a router before anything else with useRoutes().

const Router = useRoutes(
  [
    { path: "/login", element: <Login /> },
    { path: "/user/:id", element: <User /> },
  ],
  <FourOhFour />
);
 
return <Router />;

You can optionally pass a render prop to the router. It is used when your app wants a default layout component, giving the route children as the children prop.

Navigation

To navigate inside your app using anchor links, there is still the need for a <Link> component,

return (
  <Link to="/user/synecdokey" state={{ from: "page1" }}>
    My profile
  </Link>
);

Since the browser history API provides no way to listen to history.pushState() nor history.replaceState() at the moment, you will need useNavigate() to handle navigation.

const Button = () => {
  const navigate = useNavigate();
  return <button onClick={() => navigate("/this-url")}>Click me</button>;
};

To navigate programatically, you can use history.back() and history.forward(). They will work as expected, without the need for some useHistory() shenanigans.

Access data

useParams() is used for the parameters you provided in the url.

const { id } = useParams();

To access the route state, it's all in history.state.

A useLocation() hook is provided, it will give you every property of the window.location object.

const { pathname, search } = useLocation();