How do I match a params in React Router v6?

August 9, 2023

I have been trying to display the product name in the ProductScreen component by passing the ID of the image.

My router configuration looks like this:

const router = createBrowserRouter(
  createRoutesFromElements(
    <Route>
      <Route path='/' element={<HomeScreen />} exact />
      <Route path='/cart' element={<ProductScreen />} />
      <Route path='/product/:id' element={<ProductScreen />} />
    </Route>
  )
)

The id is then used to retrieve the product name from product.js
This is to be displayed inside the productscreen.js

import products from '../products'

function ProductScreen({match}) {
  const product = products.find((p) => p._id == match.params.id)
  return (
    <div>
      {product.name}
    </div>
  )
}

How do I do this?

>Solution :

react-router-dom@6 removed route props, use the useParams hook in the routed component.

Be aware also that Array.prototype.find does return undefined if/when no element in the array is matched. The UI could should check first that a result was found.

The route path parameters are always a string type, so you will also want to use a type-safe comparison to your data. I suggest converting and using string comparisons and use a strict equality check.

Example:

import { useParams } from 'react-router-dom';
import products from '../products';

function ProductScreen() {
  const { id } = useParams();

  const product = products.find((p) => String(p._id) === id);

  if (!product) {
    return <div>No product.</div>
  }

  return (
    <div>
      {product.name}
    </div>
  );
}