ReactJS Bootstrap Navbar and Routing not working together

First of all, in your snippets it doesn’t seem like you’re wrapping your code in a Router, so you should make sure that you’re doing that inside App or in ReactDOM.render: import { BrowserRouter } from ‘react-router-dom’; ReactDOM.render( <BrowserRouter> <App /> </BrowserRouter>, rootElement ); Next, your specific problem is that you’re rendering react-bootstrap’s Nav.Link instead … Read more

Use Bootstrap with React

Certain functionalities such as dropdown, modal requires JS to manipulate the DOM, and bootstrap uses jQuery to handle the DOM manipulations. However, React uses virtual DOM, so manipulating the browser DOM outside your React app through jQuery means React is potentially no longer handling state, events and UI rendering. And React broadly expects/assumes that nothing … Read more

What does the ‘…rest’ stand for in this object destructuring?

This is object rest operator, it creates an object from all properties that weren’t explicitly destructured. Note: since object rest/spread is still a stage 3 proposal, and requires a babel transform to work. const obj = { a: 1, b: 2, c: 3}; const { a, …everythingElse } = obj; console.log(a); console.log(everythingElse); It’s equivalent to … Read more

React – How to open PDF file as a href target blank

Place the pdf into a folder in /src. Import it like a component. Set href parameter as the imported pdf and the target = “_blank”. import React, { Component } from ‘react’; import Pdf from ‘../Documents/Document.pdf’; class Download extends Component { render() { return ( <div className = “App”> <a href = {Pdf} target = … Read more