React Router Quick Start Guide

Summary

In this chapter, we looked at how the Redux library can be used to create a store to manage various state entities in the application. The store receives actions and the reducers alter the state of the application when an action is dispatched. The connected-react-router library provides Redux bindings for React Router and it includes a higher-order function, connectRouter, which wraps rootReducer and creates a router state. The connectRouter function is then used in the createStore function to make the router state available to the components in the application.

The <ConnectedRouter> component in connected-react-router listens to the changes in the history location and dispatches the LOCATION_CHANGE action to update the router state ...