React-Pathfy

Probably the simplest router for React applications you will find.

Instalation

npm i --save react-pathfy

Guide

To use React-Pathfy you have to set its routing elements as parents of the other elements in your application.

React-Pathfy has two routing elements Root and Path. Root must be the top most element in your elements tree. It receives Path elements as children. Path elements may contain other Path.

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { Root, Path } from 'react-pathfy';
import MyComponent from './components/MyComponent';
import NotFound from './components/NotFound';

class App extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <Root mode='browser'>
        <Path origin="/hello" component={ <h1>Hello World</h1> } />
        <Path origin="/some">
          <Path origin="/path" component={ MyComponent } />
        </Path>
        <Path notFound={ true } component={ NotFound } />
      </Root>
    );
  }
}

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

Root

Defines the root of all paths.

props

mode: the mode React-Pathfy must use. The available options are browser, hash and memory. You should use the memory mode when you are developing a ReactNative app or an application that doesn't rely on URLs. Defaults to browser.

Path

Defines each path of an application. Every path must have a component associated. Path elements can be nested. The inner elements will be passed as children to their parents. All Path elements in a path tree will receive the pathfy props.

props

origin: the URL or key of a path. The URLs are combined if the Path elements are nested.

component: the component to be rendered.

notFound: A boolean value that defines a path to be used when no other paths respond to a request.

Link

Defines a link element that changes the current path.

import { Link } from 'react-pathfy';
render(){
  return (
    <Link to={ '/payment' } state={ {type: 'credit-card'} } />
  )
}

props

to: the URL or key of the target path.

state: the data to be passed to the rendered component

origin

The origin defines the URL pattern or the key of the path. When the path responds to a URL, wildcards can be used to capture parameters.

/something/:parameter1

/something/:parameter1/(:parameter2)

In the first example above, :parameter1 defines a mandatory parameter. In the second example, (:parameter2) defines an optional parameter.

All origin parameters can be accessed by props.pathfy.params

props.pathfy

When a component is rendered it receives a pathfy props that has relevant resources to be used.

properties

action: The action that drove to that path. The possible values are INITIAL, PUSH, POP, REPLACE

state: The data passed when using the Link element.

origin: the current origin.

history: the global active history object.

params: the parameters in the URL.

query: an object representing the query string.

history

It is the most important dependency of React-Pathfy. Check the docs at https://www.npmjs.com/package/history

You can require the active history object from the react-pathfy module and use it, for example, in a Redux reducer.

import { history } from 'react-pathfy'

To change the current path you would use as following:

history.push('/some-path')

TODO

• Middlewares
• Force default route