How to navigate programmatically react-router-dom v6

Question

I came back to react world after a few years. And things certainly have changed for good. I'm using MemoryRouter for my app. And I can navigate fine by using Link. But useNaviate hook is not working as expected. It does nothing on the page. Could you please help me here? Here is my code:

Router:

<MemoryRouter>
  <Routes>
    <Route path="/" element={<Home />} />
    <Route path="/dashboard" element={<Dashboard />} />
  </Routes>
</MemoryRouter>

Here is how I'm trying the navigation:

function Home() {
  // demo purpose
  const navigate = useNavigate()
  
  navigate('/dashboard')
}

I'm not sure if I'm using it right, or if I need to do something else here.

NVM. Found the issue. navigate should either be an event, or should be in useEffect. — Bharat Soni
– Bharat Soni, Commented Jan 5, 2023 at 11:57

Drew Reese · Accepted Answer · 2023-01-05 18:02:42Z

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The code is calling navigate as an unintentional side-effect directly in the function component body.

Either call navigate from a component lifecycle or callback to issue an imperative navigation action:

function Home() {
  const navigate = useNavigate()

  useEffect(() => {
    if (/* some condition */) {
      navigate('/dashboard');
    }
  }, [/* dependencies? /*]);
  
  ...
}

Or conditionally render the Navigate component to a declarative navigation action:

function Home() {
  ...

  if (/* some condition */) {
    return <Navigate to="/dashboard" />;
  };
  
  ...
}

answered Jan 5, 2023 at 18:02

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Bharat Soni · Accepted Answer · 2023-01-05 11:58:19Z

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The problem was that I was calling navigate directly when the component was rendering. It should either be called in an event, or it should be called in useEffect hook.

answered Jan 5, 2023 at 11:58

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Priyen Mehta · Accepted Answer · 2023-01-05 12:08:29Z

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Make your navigate in function call or in useEffect like this:

function Home() {
// demo purpose
const navigate = useNavigate()
  useEffect(() => {
    navigate('/dashboard')
  }, []);
}

answered Jan 5, 2023 at 12:08

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