What's Changed
Minor Changes
-
React Router now supports an alternative way to define your route
element
anderrorElement
fields as React Components instead of React Elements. You can instead pass a React Component to the newComponent
andErrorBoundary
fields if you choose. There is no functional difference between the two, so use whichever approach you prefer 😀. You shouldn't be defining both, but if you doComponent
/ErrorBoundary
will "win". (#10045)Example JSON Syntax
// Both of these work the same: const elementRoutes = [{ path: '/', element: <Home />, errorElement: <HomeError />, }] const componentRoutes = [{ path: '/', Component: Home, ErrorBoundary: HomeError, }] function Home() { ... } function HomeError() { ... }
Example JSX Syntax
// Both of these work the same: const elementRoutes = createRoutesFromElements( <Route path='/' element={<Home />} errorElement={<HomeError /> } /> ); const componentRoutes = createRoutesFromElements( <Route path='/' Component={Home} ErrorBoundary={HomeError} /> ); function Home() { ... } function HomeError() { ... }
-
Introducing Lazy Route Modules! (#10045)
In order to keep your application bundles small and support code-splitting of your routes, we've introduced a new
lazy()
route property. This is an async function that resolves the non-route-matching portions of your route definition (loader
,action
,element
/Component
,errorElement
/ErrorBoundary
,shouldRevalidate
,handle
).Lazy routes are resolved on initial load and during the
loading
orsubmitting
phase of a navigation or fetcher call. You cannot lazily define route-matching properties (path
,index
,children
) since we only execute your lazy route functions after we've matched known routes.Your
lazy
functions will typically return the result of a dynamic import.// In this example, we assume most folks land on the homepage so we include that // in our critical-path bundle, but then we lazily load modules for /a and /b so // they don't load until the user navigates to those routes let routes = createRoutesFromElements( <Route path="/" element={<Layout />}> <Route index element={<Home />} /> <Route path="a" lazy={() => import("./a")} /> <Route path="b" lazy={() => import("./b")} /> </Route> );
Then in your lazy route modules, export the properties you want defined for the route:
export async function loader({ request }) { let data = await fetchData(request); return json(data); } // Export a `Component` directly instead of needing to create a React Element from it export function Component() { let data = useLoaderData(); return ( <> <h1>You made it!</h1> <p>{data}</p> </> ); } // Export an `ErrorBoundary` directly instead of needing to create a React Element from it export function ErrorBoundary() { let error = useRouteError(); return isRouteErrorResponse(error) ? ( <h1> {error.status} {error.statusText} </h1> ) : ( <h1>{error.message || error}</h1> ); }
An example of this in action can be found in the
examples/lazy-loading-router-provider
directory of the repository. For more info, check out thelazy
docs.🙌 Huge thanks to @rossipedia for the Initial Proposal and POC Implementation.
Patch Changes
- Improve memoization for context providers to avoid unnecessary re-renders (#9983)
- Fix
generatePath
incorrectly applying parameters in some cases (#10078) [react-router-dom-v5-compat]
Add missed data router API re-exports (#10171)
Full Changelog: https://github.com/remix-run/react-router/compare/react-router@6.8.2...react-router@6.9.0