React-router: browserHistory not working as expected

Created on 28 Jan 2016 · 3Comments · Source: ReactTraining/react-router

As a User i want to access content via going direkt on an deep url

Situation

On the Main Page i have a link to "about" page. clicking on the the Content changes as expected.
The Page gets loaded and the url changes to localhost:8080/about.

If i now refresh the Page i get the error:

Cannot GET /about

I wonder if this is the normal behaviour or did i miss s.th. out?

Code

Routes:

var React = require('react');
var ReactRouter = require('react-router');

var Router = ReactRouter.Router;
var Route = ReactRouter.Route;
var browserHistory = ReactRouter.browserHistory;
var Main = require('./components/Main');
var About = require('./components/About');


module.exports = (
  <Router history={browserHistory} >
    <Route path="/" component={Main}>
      <Route path="about" component={About}/>
    </Route>
  </Router>
)

Main:

var React = require('react');
var ReactRouter = require('react-router');
var Link = ReactRouter.Link;

module.exports = React.createClass({
  render: function() {
    return <div>
      <div>Header!!</div>
      {this.content()}
    </div>
  },
  content: function() {
    if(this.props.children) {
      return this.props.children
    } else {
      return (
        <div>
          <h1>Main</h1>
          <Link to={'about'}>To about</Link>
        </div>)
    }
  }
});

About:

var React = require('react');
module.exports = React.createClass({
  render: function() {
    return (<div>About</div>)
  }
});

I my package.json

{
  "name": "react-starter",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "dependencies": {
    "browserify": "^13.0.0",
    "gulp": "^3.9.0 ",
    "gulp-concat": "^2.6.0",
    "gulp-react": "^3.1.0",
    "gulp-sass": "^2.1.1",
    "gulp-server-livereload": "1.6.2",
    "gulp-util": "^3.0.7",
    "gulp-watch": "^4.3.5",
    "node-notifier": "^4.4.0",
    "react": "^0.14.6",
    "react-dom": "^0.14.6",
    "react-router": "^2.0.0-rc5",
    "reactify": "^1.1.1",
    "vinyl-source-stream": "^1.1.0",
    "watchify": "^3.7.0"
  },
  "devDependencies": {}
}

Source

maier-stefan

All 3 comments

Thanks for your question!

We want to make sure that the GitHub issue tracker remains the best place to track bug reports and feature requests that affect the development of React Router.

Questions like yours deserve a purpose-built Q&A forum. Could you post this question to Stack Overflow with the tag #react-router? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask?tags=react-router

We also have an active and helpful React Router community on Reactiflux, which is a great place to get fast help with React Router and with the rest of the React ecosystem. You can join at https://discord.gg/0ZcbPKXt5bYaNQ46.