React Router Quick Start Guide

<BrowserRouter> component

The <BrowserRouter> component was discussed briefly in the first chapter. As the name suggests, the <BrowserRouter> component is used in browser-based applications and it uses HTML5's history API to keep the UI in sync with the browser's URL. Here, we take a look at how the component creates a history object for the browser environment and provides this history object to the <Router>.

The <BrowserRouter> component accepts the following props:

static propTypes = {    basename: PropTypes.string,    forceRefresh: PropTypes.bool,    getUserConfirmation: PropTypes.func,    keyLength: PropTypes.number,    children: PropTypes.node};

Similar to the <Router> interface, the <BrowserRouter> accepts only one child component (usually the application's ...