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M.KH
M.KH

Reputation: 420

having multiple paths to the same component in react-router-dom v6

i'm trying to have multiple paths/routes in react router v6 to render the same component

using previous versions of react router dom i could just do this and it would work:

<Route exact path={["/", "/home"]}>
     <Home />
</Route>

<Route exact path={"/" | "/home"}>
     <Home />
</Route>

now using v6 i'm trying the same thing but it doesn't work

<Route exact path={["/","/home"]} element={<Homepage />} />

how should i go about this? what changed exactly for it not to work?

full code of App.js where i do the routing

import React from 'react';
import { BrowserRouter as Router, Routes, Route, Link } from 'react-router-dom'
import Navbar from './components/Navbar';
import Footer from './components/Footer';
import Contact from './components/Contact';
import Homepage from './components/Homepage';
import Projects from './components/Projects'

function App() {
  return (<Router>
    <Navbar />
      <Routes>
        <Route exact path={["/","/home"]} element={<Homepage />} />
        <Route exact path="/contact" element={<Contact/>} />
        <Route exact path="/projects" element={<Projects />} />
      </Routes>
    <Footer />
  </Router>);
}

export default App;

Upvotes: 12

Views: 25391

Answers (3)

T.Chmelevskij
T.Chmelevskij

Reputation: 2139

Another option is to useRoutes just the nav and put them as sibling to some of the <Routes />

Gist from how I'm using it:

import React from 'react';
import { Route, Routes, useRoutes } from 'react-router-dom';

import Nav from './components/common/nav';

export const App: React.FC = () => {
  const element = useRoutes([
    { path: '/', element: <Nav /> },
    { path: '/equipment', element: <Nav /> },
    { path: '/client-area/*', element: <Nav /> },
  ]);
  return (
    <main>
      {element}
      <Routes>
        <Route />
        <Route />
        <Route />
        {/* Your routes here */}
      </Routes>
    </main>
  );
};

Upvotes: 0

Rich - enzedonline
Rich - enzedonline

Reputation: 1258

Probably not a good idea to be repeating the code as the accepted answer suggests, easy to break when the call to the components to load changes.

Just map over the array to create the routes:

 {["/", "/home"].map((path, index) => {
        return (
          <Route path={path} element={
              <PageWrapper>
                <Home />
              </PageWrapper>
            }
            key={index}
          />
        );
      })}

Upvotes: 17

whygee
whygee

Reputation: 1984

Apparently in v6, arrays no longer work and you have to do it the old way but using element prop.

Try this:

<Route exact path="/" element={<Homepage />} />
<Route exact path="/home" element={<Homepage />} />

Working CodeSandbox.

Upvotes: 13

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