How to nest routes in React Router v4?

Raphael Rafatpanah picture Raphael Rafatpanah · Feb 15, 2017 · Viewed 22.1k times · Source

Is there a way to nest routes in React Router v4?

This works:

  <Router basename='/app'>
    <main>
      <Route path='/' component={AppBar} />
      <Route path='/customers' component={Customers} />
    </main>
  </Router>

This does not:

  <Router basename='/app'>
    <Route path='/' component={AppBar}>
      <Route path='/customers' component={Customers} />
    </Route>
  </Router>

Customers Component:

import React, { Component, PropTypes } from 'react'
import styled from 'styled-components'

export default class Customers extends Component {
  render () {
    return (
      <Container>
        <h1>Customers</h1>
      </Container>
    )
  }
}

const Container = styled.section`
  height: 100%;
  padding: 15px;
  overflow: auto;
`

Answer

CESCO picture CESCO · Feb 16, 2017

Best pattern I have found so far.

// main app
<div>
    // not setting a path prop, makes this always render
    <Route component={AppShell}/>
    <Switch>
        <Route exact path="/" component={Login}/>
        <Route path="/dashboard" component={AsyncDashboard(userAgent)}/>
        <Route component={NoMatch}/>
    </Switch>
</div>

I can just keep nesting this inside a component and everything works nice including hmr(If using webpack, dont forget to set output.publicPath to "/")

// dashboard component
<div>
    // the same way as before, not setting a path prop
    // makes it render on every /dashboard/** request 
    <Route component={DashboardTAB}/>
    <Switch>
        // longer path (with same root) than others first
        <Route path="/dashboard/graphs/longerpath" component={GraphForm}/>
        <Route path="/dashboard/graphs" component={Graphs}/>
        <Route path="/dashboard/workers" component={List}/>
        <Route path="/dashboard/insert" component={InsertComponent}/>
    </Switch>
</div>