ASP.NET Core 3 and React

Navigating programmatically

Sometimes, it is necessary to do navigation programmatically. Follow these steps to programmatically navigate to the ask page when the Ask a question button is clicked:

1. Import RouteComponentProps from React Router into HomePage.tsx:

import { RouteComponentProps } from 'react-router-dom';

This will give us access to a history object, which can be used to programmatically navigate.

The history object in React Router keeps track of the locations that have been visited in the app and contains quite a few different properties and methods. The push method pushes a new entry into the history stack and performs navigation to the location that's passed in as a parameter.

2. We are going to use RouteComponentProps as the ...