use-withrouter-to-pass-down-react-router-history.md

Use withRouter To Pass Down React-Router History

A standard way to navigate with react-router besides using the Link component is to call history.push. Components that are directly rendered by a Route will have access to this and other router props. But what about other components?

The withRouter HOC gives us direct access to a history prop.

import React from 'react';
import { withRouter } from 'react-router';

const SpecialButton = withRouter(({ history, path, text }) => {
  return (
    <Button
      onClick={() => { history.push(path); }}
    >
      {text}
    </Button>
  )
});

This special button component is given the history prop via the withRouter HOC along with any props that we directly pass it. With that we are able to directly invoke a route change using history.push().