How to use the useLocation hook in React router

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

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useLocation hook

The useLocation hook helps us to access the location object, which contains the current URL location, search property.

Here is an example:

import React from 'react';
import {useLocation} from "react-router-dom";
function Users() {

  const location = useLocation();  console.log(location);

  return (
    <div>
      <h1>Users page</h1>
      <p>{location.pathname}</p>      <p>{new URLSearchParams(location.search).get('name')}</p>    </div>
  );
}

Have you seen in the above image, we have accessed the current location and query parameters using useLocation hook.