React Router v4 - How to get current route

Question

I d like to display a title in  lt AppBar   gt  that is somehow passed in from the current route    In React Router v4  how would  lt AppBar   gt  be able to get the current route passed into it s title prop       lt Router basename   app  gt       lt main gt         lt Menu active  menu  close  this closeMenu    gt         lt Overlay active  menu  onClick  this closeMenu    gt         lt AppBar handleMenuIcon  this handleMenuIcon  title  Test    gt         lt Route path   customers  component  Customers    gt       lt  main gt     lt  Router gt    Is there a way to pass a custom title from a custom prop on  lt Route   gt

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In the 5 1 release of react-router there is a hook called useLocation  which returns the current location object  This might useful any time you need to know the current URL  import   useLocation   from  react-router-dom   function HeaderView       const location   useLocation      console log location pathname     return  lt span gt Path    location pathname  lt  span gt

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Here is a solution using history Read more  import   createBrowserHistory   from  history    const history   createBrowserHistory     inside Router   lt Router gt      history location pathname   lt  Router gt

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There s a hook called useLocation in react-router v5  no need for HOC or other stuff  it s very succinctly and convenient   import   useLocation   from  react-router-dom    const ExampleComponent  React FC        gt      const location   useLocation         return        lt Router basename   app  gt         lt main gt           lt AppBar handleMenuIcon  this handleMenuIcon  title  location pathname    gt         lt  main gt       lt  Router gt

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If you are using react s templates  where the end of your react file looks like this  export default SomeComponent you  need to use the higher-order component  often referred to as an  HOC    withRouter   First  you ll need to import withRouter like so   import  withRouter  from  react-router-dom     Next  you ll want to use withRouter   You can do this by change your component s export   It s likely you want to change from export default ComponentName to export default withRouter ComponentName    Then you can get the route  and other information  from props   Specifically  location  match  and history   The code to spit out the pathname would be    console log this props location pathname     A good writeup with additional information is available here  https   reacttraining com react-router core guides philosophy

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Has Con Posidielov said  the current route is present in this props location pathname    But if you want to match a more specific field like a key  or a name   you may use matchPath to find the original route reference   import   matchPath   from  react-router   const routes        key   page1    exact  true    path    page1  someparam      component  Page1         exact  true    key   page2     path    page2     component  Page2        const currentRoute   routes find    route   gt  matchPath this props location pathname  route     console log  My current route key is     currentRoute key

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I think the author s of React Router  v4  just added that withRouter HOC to appease certain users  However  I believe the better approach is to just use render prop and make a simple PropsRoute component that passes those props  This is easier to test as you it doesn t  connect  the component like withRouter does  Have a bunch of nested components wrapped in withRouter and it s not going to be fun  Another benefit is you can also use this pass through whatever props you want to the Route  Here s the simple example using render prop   pretty much the exact example from their website https   reacttraining com react-router web api Route render-func   src components routes props-route   import React from  react   import   Route   from  react-router    export const PropsRoute      component  Component     props      gt       lt Route          props       render   renderProps   gt    lt Component      renderProps        props     gt         gt      export default PropsRoute    usage   notice to get the route params  match params  you can just use this component and those will be passed for you   import React from  react   import PropsRoute from  src components routes props-route    export const someComponent   props   gt    lt PropsRoute component   Profile     gt      also notice that you could pass whatever extra props you want this way too   lt PropsRoute isFetching   isFetchingProfile   title  User Profile  component   Profile     gt

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Add  import  withRouter  from  react-router-dom     Then change your component export  export default withRouter ComponentName    Then you can access the route directly within the component itself  without touching anything else in your project  using   window location pathname   Tested March 2020 with   version    5 1 2

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In react router 4 the current route is in -     this props location pathname  Just get    this props and verify  If you still do not see    location pathname then you should use the decorator withRouter   This might look something like this   import  withRouter  from  react-router-dom    const SomeComponent   withRouter props   gt   lt MyComponent     props   gt     class MyComponent extends React Component     SomeMethod          const  pathname    this props location

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