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Segev
Segev

Reputation: 1267

Error "Error: A <Route> is only ever to be used as the child of <Routes> element"

I am trying to use routing for the first time and followed the exact instructions from Udemy:

File App.js:

import { Route } from "react-router-dom";
import Welcome from "./Pages/Welcome";
import Game from "./Pages/Game";
import Leaderboard from "./Pages/Leaderboard";

function App() {
    return (
        <div>
            <Route path = "/welcome">
                <Welcome />
            </Route>
            <Route path = "/game">
                <Game />
            </Route>
            <Route path = "/leaderboard">
                <Leaderboard />
            </Route>
        </div>
    );
}

export default App;

File index.js

import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import { BrowserRouter } from 'react-router-dom';
import App from "./App";

ReactDOM.render(
    <BrowserRouter>
        <App />
    </BrowserRouter>,
    document.getElementById('root')
);

I get the following error:

Error: A Route is only ever to be used as the child of element, never rendered directly. Please wrap your Route in a Routes.

Where have I gone wrong?

Upvotes: 120

Views: 228938

Answers (19)

Sachinda Nirmal
Sachinda Nirmal

Reputation: 2324

Yes, in react-router-dom version 6 it is a bit different. Please look as the sample below.

React Router tutorial

import { render } from "react-dom";
import {
  BrowserRouter,
  Routes,
  Route
} from "react-router-dom";
import App from "./App";
import Expenses from "./routes/expenses";
import Invoices from "./routes/invoices";

const rootElement = document.getElementById("root");
render(
  <BrowserRouter>
    <Routes>
      <Route path="/" element={<App />} />
      <Route path="expenses" element={<Expenses />} />
      <Route path="invoices" element={<Invoices />} />
    </Routes>
  </BrowserRouter>,
  rootElement
);

Upvotes: 215

Vipul Pandey
Vipul Pandey

Reputation: 1738

on react version 6, 2 major changes are

  1. New Route should be under Routes

  2. Route has a property element in which you need to set your component.

      <Routes> (1)
    <Route path="/welcome" element={<Welcome />} /> (2)
    <Route path="/game" element={<Game />} />
    <Route path="/leaderboard" element={<Leaderboard />} />
  </Routes>

Ignore small braces and numbers.

Upvotes: 1

Keshav Gera
Keshav Gera

Reputation: 11244

        index.js
        
        import React from "react";
        import ReactDOM from "react-dom";
        import "./index.css";
        import App from "./App";
        import reportWebVitals from "./reportWebVitals";
        import { BrowserRouter as Router } from "react-router-dom";
        import { BrowserRouter } from 'react-router-dom';
        
        const root = ReactDOM.createRoot(document.getElementById("root"));
        root.render(
          <React.StrictMode>
            <BrowserRouter>
              <App />
            </BrowserRouter>
          </React.StrictMode>
        );
        
        reportWebVitals();
    
    import "./App.css";
    import React from "react";
    import { Routes, Route } from "react-router-dom";
    import Nav from "./Nav";
    import Home from "./Home";
    import About from "./About";
    import Winner from "./Winner";
    
    function App() {
      return (
        <Routes>
            <Route path="/" element={<Nav />} />
            <Route path="/home" element={<Home />} />
            <Route path="/about" element={<About />} />        
            <Route path="/winner" element={<Winner />} />        
        </Routes>
      );
    }
    
    export default App;


Nav.js

import React from "react";
import { Link } from "react-router-dom";


function Nav() 
{
  return (
    <div>
      <Link to="/home"> Home </Link>
      <br />
      <Link to="/about"> About </Link>
      <br />
      <Link to="/winner"> Winner List </Link>
    </div>
  );
}


export default Nav;

Upvotes: 0

Super Kai - Kazuya Ito
Super Kai - Kazuya Ito

Reputation: 1

Now, React uses React Router version 6

For React Router version 6, your index.js file is correct:

File index.js:

import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import { BrowserRouter } from 'react-router-dom';
import App from "./App";

ReactDOM.render(
    <BrowserRouter>
        <App />
    </BrowserRouter>,
    document.getElementById('root')
);

But your App.js file is not correct for React Router version 6, so this is the correct one below:

I changed three parts as shown below:

File App.js

  // 1. "Routes" is imported
import { Routes, Route } from "react-router-dom";
import Welcome from "./Pages/Welcome";
import Game from "./Pages/Game";
import Leaderboard from "./Pages/Leaderboard";

function App() {
    return (
        <div> // 2. With "<Routes></Routes>", surround "3 <Route /> tags"
            <Routes> // 3. Put an element with a component to each "<Route />"
                <Route path = "/welcome" element={<Welcome />} />
                <Route path = "/game" element={<Game />} />
                <Route path = "/leaderboard" element={<Leaderboard />} />
            </Routes>
        </div>
    );
}

export default App;

Upvotes: 1

Hossein Shafiei
Hossein Shafiei

Reputation: 645

in your index.js

import React from "react";
import ReactDOM from "react-dom/client";
import "./index.css";
import App from "./App";
const root = ReactDOM.createRoot(document.getElementById("root")); //where App must rendered in real DOM?in root
root.render(<App />); //jsx code is a special syntax that browser not undrestand it!

and in your App.js

import { BrowserRouter, Routes, Route } from "react-router-dom";
import AllMeetupsPage from "./pages/AllMeetups";
import NewMeetupPage from "./pages/NewMeetup";
import FavoritesPage from "./pages/Favorites";
function App() {
  return (
    <div>
      <BrowserRouter>
        <Routes>
          <Route path="/" element={<AllMeetupsPage />} />
          <Route path="/new-meetup" element={<NewMeetupPage />} />
          <Route path="/favorites" element={<FavoritesPage />} />
        </Routes>
      </BrowserRouter>
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

Upvotes: 1

Drew Reese
Drew Reese

Reputation: 202605

There was a fairly decent change between versions 5 and 6 of react-router-dom. It appears that the Udemy course/tutorial is using version 5 where all you needed was a Router to provide a routing context and Route components just needed to be rendered within this context. In version 6, however, the Route components now need to be rendered within a Routes component (which is an upgrade from the v5 Switch component).

Introducing Routes

One of the most exciting changes in v6 is the powerful new <Routes> element. This is a pretty significant upgrade from v5's <Switch> element with some important new features including relative routing and linking, automatic route ranking, and nested routes and layouts.

The error message is pretty clear, wrap your Route components in a Routes component. The routes also don't take children (other than other Route components in the case of nested routes), they render the components as JSX on the new element prop.

function App() {
  return (
    <div>
      <Routes>
        <Route path="/welcome" element={<Welcome />} />
        <Route path="/game" element={<Game />} />
        <Route path="/leaderboard" element={<Leaderboard />} />
      </Routes>
    </div>
  );
}

Upvotes: 52

jerryurenaa
jerryurenaa

Reputation: 4704

I know I'm late but there is another way to do nested routes straight from javascript.

first import

import { useRoutes } from "react-router-dom";

secondly, declare your routes. Here is a quick example

function App() {

return useRoutes([
{
  path: "/",
  element: <Example/>
},
{
  path: "/contact",
  element: <Example/>
}]);

}

so now you can have unlimited nested components doing it this way.

Upvotes: 0

Mushfiqur Rahman
Mushfiqur Rahman

Reputation: 554

I was facing same issue and solve it. Though I am using

react-router-dom@6

So I had to modify app.js and index.js like below

in index.js

import { BrowserRouter } from "react-router-dom";


<React.StrictMode>
<BrowserRouter>
  <App />
</BrowserRouter>
</React.StrictMode>

and app.js

import { Routes, Route } from "react-router-dom";

  function App() {
  return (
    <>
      <Header />
        <main className="py-3">
          <Container>
            <Routes>
              <Route path="/" element={<HomeScreen />} exact/>
            </Routes>
          </Container>
        </main>
      <Footer />
    </>
  );
}

export default App;

according to official documentation

Upvotes: 2

Mariano Villanueva
Mariano Villanueva

Reputation: 51

The problem right here is that you are using React v5. Since React v6, several changes were included in Router.

So now, to make it work, and as your error message says, you need to wrap your Route element inside a Routes element (Routes now is the equivalent, but an improved version of Switch element). Also, you need to add an "element" prop that accepts JSX instead of wrapping inside the Route element.

So, to make it work, you need to import all these elements like this:

import { BrowserRouter as Router, Routes, Route } from 'react-router-dom';

That being said, your code should look like this:

    <Router>
        <Routes>
            <Route path="/" element={<Welcome/>}>
            </Route>
            <Route path="/" element={<Game />}>
            </Route>
            <Route path="/" element={<Leaderboard />}>
            </Route>
        </Routes>
    </Router>

Upvotes: 5

Adesoft
Adesoft

Reputation: 333

I think there are many problems that can lead to that issue.

  1. react-router-dom version 6 no longer supports the use of components directly. Use an element to specify the component you route.

  2. Route has to be a child of Routes

Use the simple snippet.

import logo from './logo.svg';
import './App.css';
import Navbar from './components/Navbar';
import {BrowserRouter, Routes, Route, Link} from 'react-router-dom';
import Homescreen from './screens/Homescreen';


function App() {
  return (
    <div className="App">
      <Navbar/>
      <BrowserRouter>      
        <Routes>
          <Route path='/home' element={<Homescreen/>} />
        </Routes>
    
      </BrowserRouter>
     
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

Upvotes: 7

HaFiZ MuHaMMaD QaSiM
HaFiZ MuHaMMaD QaSiM

Reputation: 127

import React from 'react'
import {BrowserRouter, Route, Routes } from 'react-router-dom'
import './App.css';


import Navbar from './components/Navbar';
import { Home } from './components/screens/Home';
import { Login } from './components/screens/Login';
import { Profile } from './components/screens/Profile';
import { Signup } from './components/screens/Signup';

function App() {
  return (
    <BrowserRouter>
    <Navbar />
    <Routes>
        <Route path="/" element={<Home />} />
        <Route path="/login" element={<Login />} />
        <Route path="/signup" element={<Signup />} />
        <Route path="/profile" element={<Profile />} />\
    </Routes>




    </BrowserRouter>


  );
}

export default App;

Upvotes: 11

mithun babu
mithun babu

Reputation: 109

In the latest version of React, 'Switch' is replaced with 'Routes' and 'component' is replaced with 'element'

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Upvotes: 9

Ravindu Sathsara
Ravindu Sathsara

Reputation: 135

Use:

<div>
  <Header />
</div>
<Routes>
  <Route path="/" element={<Home />} />
  <Route path="/profile" element={<Profile />} />
  <Route path="/about" element={<About />} />
</Routes>

Upvotes: 0

amir mohseni
amir mohseni

Reputation: 314

The problem is your react-router-dom version.

Probably it's 5.1 or higher.

You can try (in terminal):

npm install [email protected]

And then your code will be OK. Or you better rebuild your code according to new react-router-dom.

Upvotes: 15

Chethan Ck
Chethan Ck

Reputation: 31

In the newer version of react-router-dom, we need to nest the Route inside the Routes. Also, component and exact have been removed in newer version.

Upvotes: 3

Elaine He
Elaine He

Reputation: 1

There is another way to fix the version issues:

App.js File:

import { BrowserRouter, Route, Routes } from "react-router-dom";
import Welcome from "./Pages/Welcome";
import Game from "./Pages/Game";
import Leaderboard from "./Pages/Leaderboard";

function App() {
  return (<div>
  <BrowserRouter>
    <Routes>
            <Route path = "/Welcome" element={< Welcome/>}/>
            <Route path = "/Game" element={< Game/>}/>
            <Route path = "/LeaderBoard" element={< LeaderBoard/>}/>
           </Routes>
  </BrowserRouter>
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

Index.js file:

import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import './index.css';
import App from './App';


ReactDOM.render(
  <React.StrictMode>
    <App />
  </React.StrictMode>,
  document.getElementById('root')
);

Upvotes: -1

Clown
Clown

Reputation: 11

Use the element option to set your component instead of nesting it into the route tags. Then wrap all the routes with <Routes></Routes>.

Do not forget to add Routes to your imports

import { Route, Routes } from "react-router-dom";
import Welcome from "./Pages/Welcome";
import Game from "./Pages/Game";
import Leaderboard from "./Pages/Leaderboard";

function App() {
    return (
        <div>
            <Routes>
              <Route path = "/welcome" element={<Welcome />}/>
              <Route path = "/game" element={<Game />}/>
              <Route path = "/leaderboard" element={<Leaderboard />}/>
            </Routes>          
        </div>
    );
}

export default App;

Upvotes: 0

Piyush Chandra
Piyush Chandra

Reputation: 199

It's probably because you are using version 6 or higher of react-router-dom. Try:npm i [email protected] And it should work.

Upvotes: 4

Georgy
Georgy

Reputation: 1939

Try to wrap your routes by Routes:

import { Route, Routes } from "react-router-dom";
import Welcome from "./Pages/Welcome";
import Game from "./Pages/Game";
import Leaderboard from "./Pages/Leaderboard";

function App() {
    return (
        <div>
          <Routes>
            <Route path = "/welcome">
                <Welcome />
            </Route>
            <Route path = "/game">
                <Game />
            </Route>
            <Route path = "/leaderboard">
                <Leaderboard />
            </Route>
           </Routes>
        </div>
    );
}

export default App;

Upvotes: 6

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