Introduction to React Router
Explore how React Router simplifies navigation in React applications. Learn to define routes, create seamless dynamic navigation, and understand why React Router is essential for scalable and SEO-friendly single-page applications. This lesson helps you build modern React apps with efficient URL-based routing and better user experience.
React applications often require navigation between different pages or views, such as “Home,” “About,” “Projects,” or “Contact” pages. Traditionally, this is done by manually managing state or creating multiple HTML files. However, as applications grow, this approach becomes cumbersome and lacks essential features, such as seamless navigation and URL-based routing. Let’s explore a scenario to build a small web application using conventional web development techniques and understand the challenges it presents. We’ll then solve the same scenario using React Router to highlight its benefits.
Case study: A portfolio application
We need to build a portfolio website with the following pages:
Home: A welcome page.
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