App.js

This is the event handling button click:

this.handleClick = this.handleClick.bind(this); handleClick(e) { debugger; e.preventDefault(); this.context.router.history.push('/HomePage'); } <button onClick={this.handleClick}>Navigate </button> 

TypeError: Cannot read property 'history' of undefined

I installed this using: npm install prop-types --save

It's not working.

5 Answers

To verify why is not working you can console.log() your props, and you will see that history won't appear, so then how you can fix that? Well, it's easy, you have two ways:

withRouter HOC

Using withRouter You can get access to the history object’s properties and the closest 's match via the withRouter higher-order component. withRouter will pass updated match, location, and history props to the wrapped component whenever it renders.

props.history.push('/path') 

Example:

import React from 'react'; import {withRouter} from 'react-router-dom'; function App({ history }) { return ( <div> <button onClick={() => history.push('/signup')}> Signup </button> </div> ); } export default withRouter(App) 

<Redirect /> component

Rendering a <Redirect> will navigate to a new location. The new location will override the current location in the history stack, like server-side redirects (HTTP 3xx) do.

Example:

import React from 'react'; import {Redirect} from 'react-router-dom'; class Register extends React.Component { state = { toDashboard: false } handleSubmit = (user) => { saveUser(user).then(() => this.setState(() => ({ toDashboard: true }))); } render() { if (this.state.toDashboard) { return <Redirect to='/dashboard' /> } return ( <div> <h1>Register</h1> <Form onSubmit={this.handleSubmit} /> </div> ) } } 

I hope this help you folks!

JSX

<Link to="/home">Homepage</Link>

If you want to use it in jsx. <Link> compiles down to <a> tag in HTML so just treat it like that

Programmatically

this.props.history.push('/home');

The reason why history is undefined is you might have the main routing page set up wrong

// app.js import { BrowserRouter, Route, } from 'react-router-dom' import UserList from './path/to/UserListComponent' class App extends Component { ... render() { return ( <BrowserRouter> ... <Route path="/users" component={UserList}/> ... </BrowserRouter> ) } } 

Do something like this

You have a two way

use Redirect from react-router:

In your handleClick method set a state and check in the render method and if that's true Redirect like the following:

<Redirect to="/HomePage" /> 

And another way is using window.location like the following:

window.location = '/HomePage'; 

I know it's late but I want to share something, react-router-dom has been updated.

<BrowserRouter> <Routes> <Route path="/" element={<App/>} /> <Route path="/new-page" element={<Home/>} /> </Routes> </BrowserRouter> 

like components to element and history.push('/home') to navigate('/home')

 const navigate = useNavigate() navigate('/new-page'{ state: pass-data } ) 

React Router v6 implements useNavigate (docs).

import { useNavigate } from 'react-router-dom'; let navigate = useNavigate(); navigate('/myOtherPath');