How to use the useHistory hook in React router

Learn, how to use the useHistory hook in react-router.

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useHistory hook

The useHistory hook helps us to access the history object, which is used to navigate programmatically to other routes using push and replace methods.

Here is an example:

import React from "react";
import { useHistory } from "react-router-dom";
export default function App() {
  const history = useHistory();
  function navigateToHome() {
    history.push("/");  }

  return (
    <div className="App">
      <h1>Hello react</h1>
      <button onClick={navigateToHome}>Home</button>    </div>
  );
}

In the above example, we first imported useHistory hook from the react-router-dom library.

Inside the App component we invoked userHistory() hook which returns a history object.

The navigateToHome function is used to navigate the user to a home route (/).