Forget about React Router. Modern and clean routing with hooks

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Hookrouter is an npm module that provides routing for React applications using hooks instead of traditional routing libraries. The core useRoutes() hook evaluates predefined routes and renders the appropriate components. It has zero dependencies and adds approximately 2.9kb to bundle size, making it a lightweight alternative for developers seeking a modern approach to client-side routing in React applications.

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A quick experiment about using hooks for routing in a react app turned out to be very flexible and powerful. I published the module hookrouter on npm for anyone to use. Let me introduce it to you in this article. Update: Version 1.2.1 has been released with lots of new features and detailed documentation . The router module is published on npm and can be installed by calling npm -i hookrouter . It has zero dependencies and adds about 2.9kb to your bundle . The module contains the hook function useRoutes() that evaluates your predefined routes and returns a result. There is also the function navigate(), which imperatively navigates your application to a new url. useRedirect() can be used to…from parastudios.de

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