examples/with-react-router/README.md

React Router Example

React Router is a universal routing solution that you can use with Expo! This demo shows you how to setup your universal application to switch between web and native routers.

⚽️ Running in the browser

• Create Expo project expo init
• Install the plugin: yarn add react-router-dom react-router-native or npm install --save react-router-dom react-router-native
• Create platform specific files to switch between web and native:
  • react-router.js for web.
  • react-router.native.js for iOS and Android.
• Now you can use these files to create your universal routes! Basic Example
  • Deployed example

Deploying to Netlify

You may find get the following error when visiting URLs other than '/' on when your single page application (SPA) is deployed to Netlify:

Page Not Found Looks like you've followed a broken link or entered a URL that doesn't exist on this site.

The problem is that react-router creates the routes on the client side so when you visit pages other than the root (ex: coolproject.netlify.com/about), Netlify won't know how to redirect the route.

Luckily the solution for this is simple! We can use the redirects API provided by Netlify.

• Create a web/_redirects to redirect all routes to the index.html:

  /*    /index.html   200
  

  • Creating files in the web/ folder will copy them to the build folder (web-build/). Think of this like public/ in Create React App projects.
• Now simply rebuild (expo build:web) and deploy your web app (netlify deploy --dir web-build)!

Example

• ❌ Example deploying without _redirects
• ✅ Example deploying with _redirects