Comment by Jose M. Oberle on "A minimalistic routing approach for React.js apps"

CommentA minimalistic routing approach for React.js apps

Jose M. Oberle

JS Coder by day and Barista by night.

Aug 18, 2015

This looks pretty simple and straightforward. I personally feel solutions like react-router, react-router-component etc are a little complex for beginners. Why do you think react-routing is minimalistic? What are the features that it lacks when compared to react-router?

Jose M. Oberle

JS Coder by day and Barista by night.

Aug 18, 2015

@koistya Thanks! Nice work!

The code sample above demonstrates how to implement a basic routing without using any 3rd party libraries.

And in regards to the react-routing library.. it has this concept of a routing table (basically an array) where each route is just a URL path and one or more actions (route handlers) associated with it. Inside a route handler function you're free to do whatever you want, e.g. print to the console, fire up some actions on a worker process, asynchronously fetch some data, render React component etc. (it has no dependency on React and is extremely flexible I believe ).

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