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JavaScript React Router Basics Getting Started with React Router Expand Your React Skills

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What version of React router are we using for this course?

The API for react router seems to have changed significantly for v4. As I would prefer not to learn a soon to be deprecated API does this course use v4? From a quick look it seem to be but doesn't use things list <BrowserHistory> and instead is using history= {hashHistory}. Have some things changed around this since the course was published?

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This course is currently using v2 of the react-router library. It's definitely outdated in terms of version, however there's not any breaking changes moving to v3. The v2 and v3 documentation is actually grouped together on the GitHub which I've linked to below.

This can be found in the package.json file in the project files downloadable from this lesson

"react-router": "^2.7.0"

You can view the documentation for the react-router api >> here <<

You will also see that browserHistory and hashHistory are both available. Here's an excerpt from the docs.

browserHistory

browserHistory uses the HTML5 History API when available, and falls back to full refreshes otherwise. browserHistory requires additional configuration on the server side to serve up URLs, but is the generally preferred solution for modern web pages.

hashHistory

hashHistory uses URL hashes, along with a query key to keep track of state. hashHistory requires no additional server configuration, but is generally less preferred than browserHistory.

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ok thanks for the confirming