how to use react routing to switch between pages - reactjs

Question

i am currently building a shopping website . i finished the homepage and i have to make routing for other pages
i have 3 main files: App.js, Menuitem.js (which is to execute props), and Homepage.js (which also is used to apply executing props from sections array which includes titles and background images and sections paths)
this is the App js
import React from "react";
import Homepage from './Homepage'
import "./styles.css";
import './Homepage.css'
import {Route, Switch} from "react-router-dom";
const Hatspage=function() {
return(
<div>
<h1>
Hats page
</h1>
</div>
)
}
function App() {
return (
<div>
<Switch>
<Route exact path='/'component={Homepage}/>
<Route path='/hats'component={Hatspage}/>
</Switch>
</div>
);
}
export default App
Menuitem.js
import React from 'react'
import {WithRouter} from 'react'
const Menuitem= function(props){
return(
<div className='card' style={{ backgroundImage: `url(${props.imageUrl})` }} >
<div className='text-frame'>
<h1 className='title'>{props.title}</h1>
<p className='subtitle'>shop now</p>
</div>
</div>
)
}
export default Menuitem
Homepage.js
import React from "react";
import sections from './directory-components';
import Menuitem from "./menu-item-components";
const arrayOne=[sections.slice(0,3)]
const arrayTwo=[sections.slice(3,)]
function extract(item){
return(
<Menuitem
title={item.title} imageUrl={item.imageUrl}/>
)
}
function Homepage(){
return(
<div className='directory-menu'>
<div className='content'>
{sections.slice(0,3).map(extract) }
</div>
<div className='second'>
{sections.slice(3,).map(extract) }
</div>
</div>
)
}
export default Homepage
so i need for example when i click on hats picture i switch to hats page . how to do that
image attached
Thanks in advance
reactjs routing

Answer 1

You can do two different approaches. Both of them will require an extra prop that will be the actual url you want to access when clicking the menu item.
Assuming you modify your section array to look like this:
[{title: 'Your title', imageUrl: 'your-image.jpg', linkUrl: '/hats'}]
And you modify your extract function to add the url value as a prop in the MenuItem component:
function extract(item){
return(
<Menuitem
title={item.title} imageUrl={item.imageUrl} linkUrl={item.linkUrl} />
)
}
You can do this
First one: Using a Link component from react router:
import React from "react";
import { Link } from "react-router-dom";
const Menuitem= function(props){
return(
<Link to={props.linkUrl}>
<div className='card' style={{ backgroundImage: `url(${props.imageUrl})`
}} >
<div className='text-frame'>
<h1 className='title'>{props.title}</h1>
<p className='subtitle'>shop now</p>
</div>
</div>
</Link>
)
}
Now you will have to add extra styling because that will add a regular a tag, but I like this approach because for example you can open the link in a new tab since it is a regular link.
Using the history prop.
import React from "react";
import { useHistory } from "react-router-dom";
const Menuitem= function(props){
const history = useHistory()
const goToPage = () => history.push(props.linkUrl)
return(
<div className='card' style={{ backgroundImage: `url(${props.imageUrl})`
}} onClick={goToPage} >
<div className='text-frame'>
<h1 className='title'>{props.title}</h1>
<p className='subtitle'>shop now</p>
</div>
</div>
)
}
This approach is a basic on click so if you press the component it will go to the selected page, this will work but keep in mind that event bubbling will be harder if you add more on clicks inside the menu item, so please be aware of that.

Answer 2

You should fire an event inside your MenuItem in order to redirect the user
import { useHistory } from 'react-router-dom'
const history = useHistory()
<img onClick={() => history.push('/hats')} />