RouteHook

A React Component that wraps the Route Component of React-Router v4 with onEnter, onChange and onLeave hooks.

Motivation

Although react-router v4 is great, and declarative routing is much better than static routing, there was one lost that seemed kind of unnecessary.

Needing to write dummy components as classes only to make use of their lyfecyle hooks as, componentDidMount when the pathname matches and the component is mounted, componentWillReceiveProps when the pathname changes, or componentWillUnmount when the route don't match the route anymore, it's a bit annoying.

Looking at a beautiful Stateless Functional Component, being turned into a React Class just to dispatch an action in its LifeCycle Hook... it just breaks my heart.

This component only purpose is to keep our dummy components as statless pure functions, and yet, be able to keep using our hooks when we navigate through our app.

Installation

npm install --save react-route-hook

Usage

RouteHook takes the path, component, render, exact, and strict props as the official Route does, and takes two additional optional props:

• onEnter
• onChange
• onLeave

IMPORTANT children prop is not supported.

onEnter

onEnter will run when the component beeing rendered by the route is mounted, and will receive as arguments the router props, this means, an object with the properties: match, location and history.

onEnter is basically a wrapper around the functionality of componentDidMount.

onChange

onChange will run when the component will receive new router props, and will receive as arguments the new props and the old ones.

onChange is basically a wrapper around the functionality of componentWillReceiveProps.

onLeave

onLeave will run when the component is going to be unmounted, probably beacause of the path doesn't match the route anymore.

onLeave is basically a wrapper around the functionality of componentWillUnmount.

Example

import React from 'react';
import RouteHook from 'react-route-hook';

const Data = (props) => (
  <div>
    {props.data}
  </div>
);

class AppContainer extends React.Component {

  state = {
    data: '',
  }

  fetchData = (props) => {
    axios.get(`/api/${props.match.params.id}`)
      .then(res => this.setState({ data: res.data }))
  }

  shouldFetchData = (newProps, oldProps) => {
    if (oldProps.match.params.id !== newProps.match.params.id) {
      this.fetchData(newProps)
    }
  }

  logout(props) {
    console.log(`You are leaving the route ${props.location.pathname}`)
  } 

  render() {
    return (
      <RouteHook 
        path="home/:id"
        onEnter={this.fetchData}
        onChange={shouldFetchData}
        onLeave={this.logout}
        render={(routerProps) => <Data data={this.state.data} />}
      />
    )
  }
}