react router v^4.0.0 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'location' of undefined

I've been having some trouble with react router (i'm using version^4.0.0).

this is my index.js

import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import App from './App';
import './index.css';
import { Router, Route, Link, browserHistory } from 'react-router';


ReactDOM.render(
  <Router history={browserHistory} >
    <Route path="/" component={App} />

  </Router>,
  document.getElementById('root')
);

the App.js is just anything. i'm posting the basic one here, cause it's not the problem (i believe)

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import logo from './logo.svg';
import './App.css';

class App extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <div className="App">
        <div className="App-header">
          <img src={logo} className="App-logo" alt="logo" />
          <h2>Welcome to React</h2>
        </div>
        <p className="App-intro">
          To get started, edit <code>src/App.js</code> and save to reload.
        </p>
      </div>
    );
  }
}

export default App;

and this is what happens when i check the console log

Router.js:43 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'location' of undefined
    at new Router (Router.js:43)
    at ReactCompositeComponent.js:295
    at measureLifeCyclePerf (ReactCompositeComponent.js:75)
    at ReactCompositeComponentWrapper._constructComponentWithoutOwner (ReactCompositeComponent.js:294)
    at ReactCompositeComponentWrapper._constructComponent (ReactCompositeComponent.js:280)
    at ReactCompositeComponentWrapper.mountComponent (ReactCompositeComponent.js:188)
    at Object.mountComponent (ReactReconciler.js:46)
    at ReactCompositeComponentWrapper.performInitialMount (ReactCompositeComponent.js:371)
    at ReactCompositeComponentWrapper.mountComponent (ReactCompositeComponent.js:258)
    at Object.mountComponent (ReactReconciler.js:46)

oh, and this is the package.json just in case

{
  "name": "teste2",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "private": true,
  "dependencies": {
    "react": "^15.4.2",
    "react-dom": "^15.4.2",
    "react-router": "^4.0.0"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "react-scripts": "0.9.5"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "start": "react-scripts start",
    "build": "react-scripts build",
    "test": "react-scripts test --env=jsdom",
    "eject": "react-scripts eject"
  }
}

i've been checking this on other places, but i didn't find a way to solve it.

Thank you guys very much for your patience and help!!

Solution 1:

You're doing a few things wrong.

1. First, browserHistory isn't a thing in V4, so you can remove that.

2. Second, you're importing everything from react-router, it should be react-router-dom.

3. Third, react-router-dom doesn't export a Router, instead, it exports a BrowserRouter so you need to import { BrowserRouter as Router } from 'react-router-dom.

Looks like you just took your V3 app and expected it to work with v4, which isn't a great idea.

Solution 2:

Replace

import { Router, Route, Link, browserHistory } from 'react-router';

With

import { BrowserRouter as Router, Route } from 'react-router-dom';

It will start working. It is because react-router-dom exports BrowserRouter

Solution 3:

I've tried everything suggested here but didn't work for me. So in case I can help anyone with a similar issue, every single tutorial I've checked is not updated to work with version 4.

Here is what I've done to make it work

import React from 'react';
import App from './App';

import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import {
    HashRouter,
    Route
} from 'react-router-dom';


 ReactDOM.render((
        <HashRouter>
            <div>
                <Route path="/" render={()=><App items={temasArray}/>}/>
            </div>
        </HashRouter >
    ), document.getElementById('root'));

That's the only way I have managed to make it work without any errors or warnings.

In case you want to pass props to your component for me the easiest way is this one:

 <Route path="/" render={()=><App items={temasArray}/>}/>

Solution 4:

location from the useLocation hook or from the useHistory hook is referencing the BrowserRouter from react-router-dom

So only call useLocation and useHistory from children components so this code below will work

#src/index.js

import React from "react";
import ReactDOM from "react-dom";
import "./index.css";
import App from "./App";
import { BrowserRouter,Switch, Route, } from "react-router-dom";

ReactDOM.render(
  <>
    <BrowserRouter>
      <Switch>
        <Route>
           <App />
        <Route>
      </Switch>   
    </BrowserRouter>
      </>,
      document.getElementById("root")
    );

then in your App.js you can get location by the useLocation hook or useHistory

since it's a child of the BrowserRouter it will be defined

eg. const { location} = useHistory(); eg. const loction = useLocation();