I was reading react-router-redux examples and I confused, what is the difference beetween:
import { Redirect } from 'react-router-dom'
...
<Redirect to='/login' />
and
import { push } from 'react-router-redux'
...
push('/login')
I was reading react-router-redux examples and I confused, what is the difference beetween:
import { Redirect } from 'react-router-dom'
...
<Redirect to='/login' />
and
import { push } from 'react-router-redux'
...
push('/login')
Redirect
Rendering a <Redirect>
will navigate to a new location. The new location will override the current location in the history stack,
like server-side redirects (HTTP 3xx) do.
whereas History
push function Pushes a new entry onto the history stack
The <Redirect>
component will, by default, replace the current location with a new location in the history stack, basically working as a server-side redirect.
But it can also be used with the property push
and in this case it will push a new entry into the history stack, working the same way as history.push
.
In fact the <Redirect>
component uses the history push
and replace
methods behinds the scene. It is just a more React way of navigating.
So basically you have two ways of navigating:
Use the history.push
and history.replace
in a component (usually wrapped with the withRouter
HOC, so that you can have access to the location
object without having to pass it from parent to child.
Use the <Redirect>
component with or without the push
property, depending