React Router v5

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Post by jsdev93 » Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 4:22 AM UTC

Re: React Router v5

#2

Post by mythz » Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 4:43 AM UTC

I usually shudder when I see React Router major versions which usually result in hard breaks that takes hours to migrate existing code bases to, so I'm pleasantly surprised to see:

> v5 is fully backwards compatible with 4.x

It appears the major version bump was due to package configuration changes instead of major API code changes.

Re: React Router v5

#3

Post by realusername » Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 4:50 AM UTC

mythz wrote: post #2

I usually shudder when I see React Router major versions which usually result in hard breaks that takes hours to migrate existing code bases to, so I'm pleasantly surprised to see: > v5 is fully backwards compatible with 4.x It appears the major version bump was due to package configuration changes instead of major API code changes.

Yeah that was my first reaction when I saw the title, "How hard is it going to be this time?" since it took me 2 days to migrate to the v4 last time.

Re: React Router v5

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Post by mattdeboard » Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 4:51 AM UTC

Exemplary release notes.

Re: React Router v5

#5

Post by anurag » Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 5:03 AM UTC

We migrated from React Router to Reach Router (https://reach.tech/router) and found it to be better in a few ways:

* Built-in focus management.

* Smaller library size.

* Implicit route matching that Just Works.

* More comprehensive docs with live examples.

Migration was easy. Highly recommended.

Re: React Router v5

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Post by urs2102 » Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 5:10 AM UTC

Probably the least stressful major version bump I've seen. Props to the team for solving the 4.4.x problem and pushing this out. Took a few minutes to update and now everything is great!

Re: React Router v5

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Post by kin » Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 5:23 AM UTC

mythz wrote: post #2

I usually shudder when I see React Router major versions which usually result in hard breaks that takes hours to migrate existing code bases to, so I'm pleasantly surprised to see: > v5 is fully backwards compatible with 4.x It appears the major version bump was due to package configuration changes instead of major API code changes.

Same reaction here! Jumping from 2 -> 4 was a pretty big change to our codebase. Glad for this.

Re: React Router v5

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Post by wilsonrocks » Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 5:37 AM UTC

anurag wrote: post #5

We migrated from React Router to Reach Router ( https://reach.tech/router ) and found it to be better in a few ways: * Built-in focus management. * Smaller library size. * Implicit route matching that Just Works. * More comprehensive docs with live examples. Migration was easy. Highly recommended.

This looks great! Thank you

Re: React Router v5

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Post by thejosh » Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 5:40 AM UTC

anurag wrote: post #5

We migrated from React Router to Reach Router ( https://reach.tech/router ) and found it to be better in a few ways: * Built-in focus management. * Smaller library size. * Implicit route matching that Just Works. * More comprehensive docs with live examples. Migration was easy. Highly recommended.

This looks very similar to preact router.

Re: React Router v5

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Post by jeswin » Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 5:42 AM UTC

I recently implemented home grown routing in one of my apps - and was surpised to see that it was about 30 lines of simple code. You don't really need to tie yourself to a third party lib and risk future upgrades. Wrote about it here: https://medium.com/p/9e2c7b036b0