Routing refers to the process of keeping a webpage up to date with the most current url. Routing can be very easy with React as only one library called React Router needs to be installed. React Router is a collection of navigational tools that compose declaratively within your application. It is a common declarative method of managing routes in several React applications. It removes all the stress that comes when routes for all the pages and screens in your React application are set manually. Routing is made possible by exporting three significant components, including route, link, and browser Router. It provides the browser with a synchronous URL that is to be displayed on the web page. It maintains the behavior as well as structure of the application and is used for displaying multiple views in a single-page web application.

What is React-Router-Redux?

React-Router and Redux are two of the widely used React libraries. React-Router-Redux refers to the way of profoundly integrating React Router and Redux, where Redux is used for managing application state and React Router to carry out routing. The majority of the apps require a communication between the app state and Router. Integrating the React Router and Redux in a seamless manner might be tricky as both the libraries don’t coordinate, and it poses certain challenges.

One of the most common Redux-React-Router interactions is to change the route after changing the state of the app. React-Router-Redux, also known as connected React Router, is a third-party app that is used to bind React Router and Redux seamlessly. It synchronizes the Router with React store in a unidirectional flow, and the React-hot-loader is used to facilitate hot reloading of functional components and to preserve the state.

Pros of React-Router-Redux

The advantages of React-Router-Redux are listed below:

• It synchronizes routes with the store and saves route data within the Redux store without any component mediating between the Router and the state.
• This library keeps your application state in sync with your Redux store.
• Once the React-Router-Redux is installed, you can directly access the router state within Redux and dispatch actions to modify the router state within Redux actions.
• One can easily navigate routes by dispatching actions.
• On rewinding your application state with a tool like Redux DevTools, the change of state is propagated to React Router so that the component tree can be appropriately adjusted. Hence, the state can be changed, replayed, reset and rewind without disturbing their sync.
• It is used for recording, replaying user actions, and persisting using time travel.

Cons of React-Router-Redux

The only disadvantage of React-Router-Redux:

• This integrated approach slowly hides the critical implementation details away from the component where the actual action took place.