`createBrowserRouter`

This is the recommended router for all React Router web projects. It uses the DOM History API to update the URL and manage the history stack.

It also enables the v6.4 data APIs like loaders, actions, fetchers and more.

Due to the decoupling of fetching and rendering in the design of the data APIs, you should create your router outside of the React tree with a statically defined set of routes. For more information on this design, please see the Remixing React Router blog post and the When to Fetch conference talk.

import * as React from "react";
import * as ReactDOM from "react-dom";
import {
  createBrowserRouter,
  RouterProvider,
} from "react-router-dom";

import Root, { rootLoader } from "./routes/root";
import Team, { teamLoader } from "./routes/team";

const router = createBrowserRouter([
  {
    path: "/",
    element: <Root />,
    loader: rootLoader,
    children: [
      {
        path: "team",
        element: <Team />,
        loader: teamLoader,
      },
    ],
  },
]);

ReactDOM.createRoot(document.getElementById("root")).render(
  <RouterProvider router={router} />
);

Type Declaration

function createBrowserRouter(
  routes: RouteObject[],
  opts?: {
    basename?: string;
    future?: FutureConfig;
    hydrationData?: HydrationState;
    window?: Window;
  }
): RemixRouter;

`routes`

An array of Route objects with nested routes on the children property.

createBrowserRouter([
  {
    path: "/",
    element: <Root />,
    loader: rootLoader,
    children: [
      {
        path: "events/:id",
        element: <Event />,
        loader: eventLoader,
      },
    ],
  },
]);

`basename`

The basename of the app for situations where you can't deploy to the root of the domain, but a sub directory.

createBrowserRouter(routes, {
  basename: "/app",
});

The trailing slash will be respected when linking to the root:

createBrowserRouter(routes, {
  basename: "/app",
});
<Link to="/" />; // results in <a href="/app" />

createBrowserRouter(routes, {
  basename: "/app/",
});
<Link to="/" />; // results in <a href="/app/" />

`future`

An optional set of Future Flags to enable for this Router. We recommend opting into newly released future flags sooner rather than later to ease your eventual migration to v7.

const router = createBrowserRouter(routes, {
  future: {
    // Normalize `useNavigation()`/`useFetcher()` `formMethod` to uppercase
    v7_normalizeFormMethod: true,
  },
});

`window`

Useful for environments like browser devtool plugins or testing to use a different window than the global window.