Router Suspense

A suspense-friendly minimalistic sister of React Router.

npm i router-suspense

As of now, this is a very basic router that works in async-land.

Playing with Suspense

This router will work in React 15+. However, If you want to play around with suspense features, you'll need to enable suspense somehow. That means either building React yourself. Or, using this handy dandy starter we made.

https://github.com/palmerhq/react-suspense-starter

API

The API is basically the core of React Router 4.

<Router>

Exactly the same as RR4's <BrowserRouter>

• children: React.ReactNode

import React from 'react';
import { unstable_createRoot as createRoot } from 'react-dom';
import { Router } from 'router-suspense';
import App from './App';

const root = createRoot(document.getElementById('app'));

const render = Comp => {
  root.render(
   <Router>
     <Comp />
   </Router>
  );
};

render(App);

<Route>

Render prop component to conditionally render based on the URL. If present, it uses ReactDOM.unstable_deferredUpdates to wait for any suspense jazz to happen on the next route before making the transition.

Route Props

• render: ((props) => React.ReactNode): Passes history, location, match as a render prop. Only renders when path matches the current location.
• path: string Path to match. Same as RR4.
• exact: boolean = false Same as RR4.

import React from 'react'
import { Route, Link } from 'router-suspense'

export const Nav = () => (
  <nav>
    <Link to="/">Home</Link>
    <Link to="/dashboard">Dashboard</Link>
  </nav>
)

export const App = () => (
  <div>
    <nav>
     <Link to="/">Home</Link>
     <Link to="/dashboard">Dashboard</Link>
     <Link to="/user/123">User</Link>
    </nav>
    <Route path="/" exact render={() => <div>Home</div>} />
    <Route path="/dashboard" exact render={() => <div>Dashboard</div>} />
    <Route path="/user/:id" exact render={({ match }) => <div>User {match.params.id} </div>} />
  </div>
)

<Link>

Link works like React Router 4's. You give it a path, it renders an <a>, but does a client-side transition by calling history.push(path) under the hood.

• to: string The relative path to link to

import React from 'react'
import { Link } from 'router-suspense'

export const Nav = () => (
  <nav>
    <Link to="/">Home</Link>
    <Link to="/dashboard">Dashboard</Link>
  </nav>
)

withRouter(Comp: Component)

A higher-order component that hooks into Router context. Same as RR4.

import React from 'react'
import { Link } from 'router-suspense'

const BackButton = ({ history }) => (
  <div>
    <button onClick={() => history.goBack()}>Back</button>
  </div>
)

export default withRouter(BackButton)

Inspiration

A lot of this code is taken straight from React Router and React Training's MiniRouter lecture.

Authors

• Jack Cross (@crosscompile)
• Jared Palmer (@jaredpalmer)

Copyright © 2018 The Palmer Group.

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MIT License