React-Router External link
Here's a one-liner for using React Router to redirect to an external link:
<Route path='/privacy-policy' component={() => {
window.location.href = 'https://example.com/1234';
return null;
}}/>
It uses React pure component concept to reduce the component's code to a single function that, instead of rendering anything, redirects browser to an external URL.
Works both on React Router 3 and 4.
There is no need to use <Link />
component from react-router.
If you want to go to external link use an anchor tag.
<a target="_blank" href="https://meetflo.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/230425728-Privacy-Policies">Policies</a>
It doesn't need to request react router. This action can be done natively and it is provided by the browser.
just use window.location
With React Hooks
const RedirectPage = () => {
React.useEffect(() => {
window.location.replace('https://www.google.com')
}, [])
}
With React Class Component
class RedirectPage extends React.Component {
componentDidMount(){
window.location.replace('https://www.google.com')
}
}
Also, if you want to open it in a new tab:
window.open('https://www.google.com', '_blank');
With Link component of react-router you can do that. In the "to" prop you can specify 3 types of data:
- a string: A string representation of the Link location, created by concatenating the location’s pathname, search, and hash properties.
- an object: An object that can have any of the following properties:
- pathname: A string representing the path to link to.
- search: A string representation of query parameters.
- hash: A hash to put in the URL, e.g. #a-hash.
- state: State to persist to the location.
- a function: A function to which current location is passed as an argument and which should return location representation as a string or as an object
For your example (external link):
https://example.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/123456789-Privacy-Policies
You can do the following:
<Link to={{ pathname: "https://example.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/123456789-Privacy-Policies" }} target="_blank" />
You can also pass props you’d like to be on the such as a title, id, className, etc.