isActive?

[idolize]

Is there a way to test if a specific route is active (similar to the IsActive mixin) via the router state in the Redux store (instead of a React component)?

I realize one option would be to get the location.pathname and check for a certain prefix using a RegExp, for example, but some kind of isActive function would be much cleaner.

[acdlite]

React Router has this module:

https://github.com/rackt/react-router/blob/master/modules/isActive.js

which could be used to create an isActive() selector. It's not a public API, so there's some risk involved in using it. But it may be our best option.

[idolize]

Hmm.. yeah, it would be great if react-router could decouple that checking logic into a publicly-accessible helper method.

Do you think this feature falls into scope for this (redux-react-router) library, or is it better off somewhere else?

[acdlite]

Yeah I think it falls within the scope of this library.

[i4got10]

You can access history via context and call

this.context.history.isActive()

https://github.com/rackt/react-router/blob/v1.0.0-rc1/modules/Link.js

[acdlite]

@i4got10 Yes but we'd like to do it inside a selector, based purely on the state in the store.

[acdlite]

Closed by #56

[idolize]

@acdlite Awesome! Thanks 😃

Do you happen to know if this method will let us check if a route is active regardless of the query, or does not specifying the query do a strict check for an empty query?

Checking if a route is active with any possible query can be useful sometimes.