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Mastering React Test-Driven Development
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Mastering React Test-Driven Development

by Daniel Irvine
May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
496 pages
10h 38m
English
Packt Publishing
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Avoiding withRouter

Passing down these props into your components should be your default method of accessing React Router state. You could use the withRouter higher-order component to avoid passing props, but that adds a significant amount of complexity to your code, including your tests.

Why can props be a problem? Well, let's look at an example from our codebase. There are actually a whole bunch of RouterButton elements in the button bar. They all get passed the same pathname prop:

<ToggleRouterButton id="limit-10" ... pathname={pathname}>  10</ToggleRouterButton><ToggleRouterButton id="limit-20" ... pathname={pathname}>  20</ToggleRouterButton><ToggleRouterButton id="limit-50" ... pathname={pathname}>  50</ToggleRouterButton><ToggleRouterButton ...
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