I've been following along Tyler Mcginnis' tutorial and hit a snag with the react router, specifically with history. I ended up copying his code verbatim just to see if it was only me, but I'm still getting
Warning: React.createElement: type is invalid -- expected a string (for built- in components) or a class/function (for composite components) but got: undefined. You likely forgot to export your component from the file it's defined in. Warning: Failed prop type: The prop `history` is marked as required in `Router`, but its value is `undefined`. in Router Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'location' of undefined at new Router (index_bundle.js:8347) at index_bundle.js:19079 at measureLifeCyclePerf (index_bundle.js:18859) at ReactCompositeComponentWrapper._constructComponentWithoutOwner (index_bundle.js:19078) at ReactCompositeComponentWrapper._constructComponent (index_bundle.js:19064) at ReactCompositeComponentWrapper.mountComponent (index_bundle.js:18972) at Object.mountComponent (index_bundle.js:4070) at ReactCompositeComponentWrapper.performInitialMount (index_bundle.js:19155) at ReactCompositeComponentWrapper.mountComponent (index_bundle.js:19042) at Object.mountComponent (index_bundle.js:4070)
The implementation is:
var React = require('react'); var ReactRouter = require('react-router'); var Router = ReactRouter.Router; var Route = ReactRouter.Route; var hashHistory = ReactRouter.hashHistory; var IndexRoute = ReactRouter.IndexRoute; var Main = require('../components/Main'); var Home = require("../components/Home"); var PromptContainer = require('../containers/PromptContainer'); var routes = ( ); module.exports = routes;
What I noticed was that hashHistory
doesn't exist in the react-router
module, but rather there is a createBrowserHistory
inside the history
module. Following the API doc I found, I figured I must call it through there as:
var BrowserHistory = require('history/createBrowserHistory); const history = createBrowserHistory();
Doing that produces an createBrowserHistory is not a function
error. Removing paranthesis, results in the same errors above stating history is undefined
.
When I log history, it's definitely undefined, which makes me believe the issue has to do with the import statement, but wouldn't the console tell me ReactRouter.hashHistory
could not be found?
I understand this tutorial is a year old and there have probably been changes to the API I just not aware of, and that's where my issue lies. Any help is appreciated!