Electron-react-boilerplate: history.push is not working?

[marksalpeter]

Hey guys. Here's what I'm trying to do in one of my components
```
...
componentDidUpdate(prev) {
if (prev.isConnected && !this.props.isConnected) {
this.props.history.push('/home');
}
}
...
````
I can't figure out why this isn't navigating to the home directory. I'm pretty new to react router redux. Any insights you have would be really helpful. Thanks

• Mark

[oussamajabnouni]

Try this it worked for me

Change routes order from

  <App>
    <Switch>
      <Route path="/" component={LoginPage} />
      <Route path="/dashboard" component={DashboardPage} />
    </Switch>
  </App>

to

  <App>
    <Switch>
      <Route path="/dashboard" component={DashboardPage} />
      <Route path="/" component={LoginPage} />
    </Switch>
  </App>

[marksalpeter]

Thanks @oussamajabnouni, that worked!!

Does anyone have any idea why that worked?

[BuckyMaler]

Only a single route in a <Switch> will be rendered. That being said, order matters. React Router uses path-to-regexp to determine a path as a match or not. It's often recommended to put your paths in decreasing specificity because of the scenario you've encountered.

For example, /home will match path="/". Furthermore, /users/add would match both path="/users" and path="/users/add", in which case you'd order path="/users/add" before path="/users".

For your instance, you'd either want to change order as demonstrated by @oussamajabnouni or you can use the exact prop provided by React Router, which is commonly used on the root path.

<App>
  <Switch>
    <Route exact path="/" component={Home} />
    <Route path="/other" component={Other} />
  </Switch>
</App>

Now, only / will match path="/" regardless of order.

Route docs and Route Tester are a couple of helpful resources for further exploration.