How to add a header, footer components to React router
In this tutorial, we are going to learn about creating and adding a common header, footer components to react-router with the help of an example.
This tutorial assumes that you already have some basic knowledge about react-router otherwise you can check out my React router tutorial.
Creating a header and footer component
First, we need to create two new files called header.js, footer.js in our src folder or components folder.
Now inside header.js add your react app navigation links like i have shown in the below code.
header.js
import React from "react";
import { NavLink } from "react-router-dom";
function Header() {
return (
<nav>
<NavLink exact activeClassName="active" to="/"> Home
</NavLink>
<NavLink activeClassName="active" to="/users"> Users
</NavLink>
<NavLink activeClassName="active" to="/contact"> Contact
</NavLink>
</nav>
);
}
export default Header;
Next, we need to add a footer related code to footer.js file.
footer.js
import React from "react";
function Footer() {
return (
<div>
<h1>This is footer</h1>
</div>
);
}
export default Footer;Adding header and footer
We successfully created two components, now we will add a header, footer components to index.js
file, so that we can see the both components on every page we navigate.
index.js
import React from "react";
import ReactDOM from "react-dom";
import "./index.css";
import { Route, BrowserRouter as Router, Switch } from "react-router-dom";
import App from "./App";
import Users from "./users";
import Contact from "./contact";
import Notfound from "./notfound";
import Header from "./header";import Footer from "./footer";
const routing = (
<Router>
<div>
<Header /> <hr />
<Switch>
<Route exact path="/" component={App} />
<Route path="/users" component={Users} />
<Route path="/contact" component={Contact} />
<Route component={Notfound} />
</Switch>
<Footer /> </div>
</Router>
);
ReactDOM.render(routing, document.getElementById("root"));- Share:
