How to set the DefaultRoute to another Route in React Router

You can use Redirect instead of DefaultRoute

<Redirect from="/" to="searchDashboard" />

Update 2019-08-09 to avoid problem with refresh use this instead, thanks to Ogglas

<Redirect exact from="/" to="searchDashboard" />

Source:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/43958016/3850405

Update:

For v6 you can do it like this with Navigate. You can use a "No Match" Route to handle "no match" cases.

<Routes>
  <Route path="/" element={<Navigate to="/searchDashboard" />}>
    <Route path="searchDashboard" element={<SearchDashboard/>} />
    <Route
      path="*"
      element={<Navigate to="/" />}
    />
  </Route>
</Routes>

https://reactrouter.com/docs/en/v6/getting-started/tutorial#adding-a-no-match-route

https://stackoverflow.com/a/69872699/3850405

Original:

The problem with using <Redirect from="/" to="searchDashboard" /> is if you have a different URL, say /indexDashboard and the user hits refresh or gets a URL sent to them, the user will be redirected to /searchDashboard anyway.

If you wan't users to be able to refresh the site or send URLs use this:

<Route exact path="/" render={() => (
    <Redirect to="/searchDashboard"/>
)}/>

Use this if searchDashboard is behind login:

<Route exact path="/" render={() => (
  loggedIn ? (
    <Redirect to="/searchDashboard"/>
  ) : (
    <Redirect to="/login"/>
  )
)}/>