How to set the DefaultRoute to another Route in React Router

Question

I have the following:

  <Route name="app" path="/" handler={App}>
    <Route name="dashboards" path="dashboards" handler={Dashboard}>
      <Route name="exploreDashboard" path="exploreDashboard" handler={ExploreDashboard} />
      <Route name="searchDashboard" path="searchDashboard" handler={SearchDashboard} />
      <DefaultRoute handler={DashboardExplain} />
    </Route>
    <DefaultRoute handler={SearchDashboard} />
  </Route>

When using the DefaultRoute, SearchDashboard renders incorrectly since any *Dashboard needs to rendered within Dashboard.

I would like for my DefaultRoute within the "app" Route to point to the Route "searchDashboard". Is this something that I can do with React Router, or should I use normal Javascript (for a page redirect) for this?

Basically, if the user goes to the home page I want to send them instead to the search dashboard. So I guess I'm looking for a React Router feature equivalent to window.location.replace("mygreathostname.com/#/dashboards/searchDashboard");

Answer 1

You can use Redirect instead of DefaultRoute

<Redirect from="/" to="searchDashboard" />

Update 2019-08-09 to avoid problem with refresh use this instead, thanks to Ogglas

<Redirect exact from="/" to="searchDashboard" />