Pass object through Link in react router
It is possible to pass an object through a Link. (it's not best practice, but it's possible)
Add your data within a query rather than params and stringify the object:
<Link to={{
pathname: `/blog/${post.id}`,
query: {
title: post.title,
content: post.content,
comments: JSON.stringify(post.comments)
}
}}>Read More...</Link>
Then in your child component parse the string back in to an object:
JSON.parse(this.props.comments)
So my final conclusion on this question is that I didn't think it through properly. It seemed natural just to pass my data through the Link
so I can access them in my Child
component. As Colin Ramsay mentioned there is something called state
in the Link
but that's not the way to do it.
It would work fine when the data is passed through Link
only if the user clicks on something and is taken to the Child
component.
The problem comes when the user accesses the url
which is used in Link
then there is no way to get the data.
So the solution in my case was to pass the ID
in Link
params and then check if my Store
has the data (user accesses it via Link
) and then getting this data from the Store
.
Or if the data is not in the Store
call the action
to fetch the data from the API.