How to push to History in React Router v4?

Question

In the current version of React Router (v3) I can accept a server response and use browserHistory.push to go to the appropriate response page. However, this isn't available in v4, and I'm not sure what the appropriate way to handle this is.

In this example, using Redux, components/app-product-form.js calls this.props.addProduct(props) when a user submits the form. When the server returns a success, the user is taken to the Cart page.

// actions/index.js
export function addProduct(props) {
  return dispatch =>
    axios.post(`${ROOT_URL}/cart`, props, config)
      .then(response => {
        dispatch({ type: types.AUTH_USER });
        localStorage.setItem('token', response.data.token);
        browserHistory.push('/cart'); // no longer in React Router V4
      });
}

How can I make a redirect to the Cart page from function for React Router v4?

Answer 1

React router V4 now allows the history prop to be used as below:

this.props.history.push("/dummy",value)

The value then can be accessed wherever the location prop is available as state:{value} not component state.

Answer 2

I offer one more solution in case it is worthful for someone else.

I have a history.js file where I have the following:

import createHistory from 'history/createBrowserHistory'
const history = createHistory()
history.pushLater = (...args) => setImmediate(() => history.push(...args))
export default history

Next, on my Root where I define my router I use the following:

import history from '../history'
import { Provider } from 'react-redux'
import { Router, Route, Switch } from 'react-router-dom'

export default class Root extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
     <Provider store={store}>
      <Router history={history}>
       <Switch>
        ...
       </Switch>
      </Router>
     </Provider>
    )
   }
  }

Finally, on my actions.js I import History and make use of pushLater

import history from './history'
export const login = createAction(
...
history.pushLater({ pathname: PATH_REDIRECT_LOGIN })
...)

This way, I can push to new actions after API calls.

Hope it helps!

Answer 3

Nasty question, took me quite a lot of time, but eventually, I solved it this way:

Wrap your container with withRouter and pass history to your action in mapDispatchToProps function. In action use history.push('/url') to navigate.

Action:

export function saveData(history, data) {
  fetch.post('/save', data)
     .then((response) => {
       ...
       history.push('/url');
     })
};

Container:

import { withRouter } from 'react-router-dom';
...
const mapDispatchToProps = (dispatch, ownProps) => {
  return {
    save: (data) => dispatch(saveData(ownProps.history, data))}
};
export default withRouter(connect(mapStateToProps, mapDispatchToProps)(Container));

This is valid for React Router v4.x.

Answer 4

step one wrap your app in Router

import { BrowserRouter as Router } from "react-router-dom";
ReactDOM.render(<Router><App /></Router>, document.getElementById('root'));

Now my entire App will have access to BrowserRouter. Step two I import Route and then pass down those props. Probably in one of your main files.

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

//lots of code here

//somewhere in my render function

    <Route
      exact
      path="/" //put what your file path is here
      render={props => (
      <div>
        <NameOfComponent
          {...props} //this will pass down your match, history, location objects
        />
      </div>
      )}
    />

Now if I run console.log(this.props) in my component js file that I should get something that looks like this

{match: {…}, location: {…}, history: {…}, //other stuff }

Step 2 I can access the history object to change my location

//lots of code here relating to my whatever request I just ran delete, put so on

this.props.history.push("/") // then put in whatever url you want to go to

Also I'm just a coding bootcamp student, so I'm no expert, but I know you can also you use

window.location = "/" //wherever you want to go

Correct me if I'm wrong, but when I tested that out it reloaded the entire page which I thought defeated the entire point of using React.

Answer 5

I was able to accomplish this by using bind(). I wanted to click a button in index.jsx, post some data to the server, evaluate the response, and redirect to success.jsx. Here's how I worked that out...

index.jsx:

import React, { Component } from "react"
import { postData } from "../../scripts/request"

class Main extends Component {
    constructor(props) {
        super(props)
        this.handleClick = this.handleClick.bind(this)
        this.postData = postData.bind(this)
    }

    handleClick() {
        const data = {
            "first_name": "Test",
            "last_name": "Guy",
            "email": "[e-mail]"
        }

        this.postData("person", data)
    }

    render() {
        return (
            <div className="Main">
                <button onClick={this.handleClick}>Test Post</button>
            </div>
        )
    }
}

export default Main

request.js:

import { post } from "./fetch"

export const postData = function(url, data) {
    // post is a fetch() in another script...
    post(url, data)
        .then((result) => {
            if (result.status === "ok") {
                this.props.history.push("/success")
            }
        })
}

success.jsx:

import React from "react"

const Success = () => {
    return (
        <div className="Success">
            Hey cool, got it.
        </div>
    )
}

export default Success

So by binding this to postData in index.jsx, I was able to access this.props.history in request.js... then I can reuse this function in different components, just have to make sure I remember to include this.postData = postData.bind(this) in the constructor().

Answer 6

According to React Router v4 documentation - Redux Deep Integration session

Deep integration is needed to:

"be able to navigate by dispatching actions"

However, they recommend this approach as an alternative to the "deep integration":

"Rather than dispatching actions to navigate you can pass the history object provided to route components to your actions and navigate with it there."

So you can wrap your component with the withRouter high order component:

export default withRouter(connect(null, { actionCreatorName })(ReactComponent));

which will pass the history API to props. So you can call the action creator passing the history as a param. For example, inside your ReactComponent:

onClick={() => {
  this.props.actionCreatorName(
    this.props.history,
    otherParams
  );
}}

Then, inside your actions/index.js:

export function actionCreatorName(history, param) {
  return dispatch => {
    dispatch({
      type: SOME_ACTION,
      payload: param.data
    });
    history.push("/path");
  };
}