React PushState Anchor

What is it?

React PushState Anchor provides three components for performing client-side push state navigation. There's no routing or complex state management. Just three components

<PushStateAnchorProvider />

Wrap your entire application or just the part of the application you want to use pushState in.

<PushStateAnchor />

A replacement for <a> tags that will use history.pushState under the hood.

import { PushStateAnchor as A } from 'react-pushstate-anchor'
<A href='/home'>Home</A>

PushStateLocation />

If you're updating history, you'll probably want to know when it's been updated. Use PushStateLocation component to get the current history location object, it'll update whenever a PushStateAnchor is clicked. A utitlity component that will provide the current history location using a render callback.

import { PushStateLocaation } from 'react-pushstate-anchor'
 
<PushStateLocation>
  {location => {
    <h1>The current pathname is {location.pathname}</h1>
  )}
</PushStateLocation>

Installation

Install from NPM, react-pushstate-anchor requires the history module as a peer dependency.

yarn add react-pushstate-anchor history

Usage

import React, { Component } from 'react'
import { PushStateAnchorProvider, PushStateLocation, PushStateAnchor as Psa } from 'react-pushstate-anchor'
 
class App extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <PushStateAnchorProvider>
        <h1>Push State Anchor</h1>        
        <Psa href='/home'><button>Home</button></Psa>
        <Psa href='/about'><button>About</button></Psa>
        <Psa href='/careers'><button>Careers</button></Psa>
        <PushStateLocation>
          {location => (
            <h1>{location.pathname}</h1>
          )}
        </PushStateLocation>
      </PushStateAnchorProvider>
    )
  }
}
 
export default App

react-pushstate-anchor will render a simple <a> anchor tag if JavaScript is unavailable.