react-router-last-location

- Provides access to the last location in react + react-router (v4.x, v5.x) applications.
- ❤️ Using hooks? If yes, useLastLocation.
- 💉 Using HOC? - If yes, withLastLocation.
- Handle redirects.
- Support !TypeScript
- Useful for handling internal routing.
- Easily prevent leaving your app by users.

Demo


Note: Last location != Previous browser history state

This library only returns the location that has been active before the recent location change in the current window lifetime.

This means, it is not equal to the "location that happened before navigating to this history state", or in other words "location to which you'll be redirected upon clicking browser back button".

Example 1

1. Visit /: last location = null, previous browser history state = null
2. Visit /a: last location = /, previous browser history state = /
3. Visit /b: last location = /a, previous browser history state = /a
4. Reload (url will stay at /b): last location = null, previous browser history state = /a

Example 2

1. Visit /: last location = null
2. Visit /a: last location = /
3. Visit /b: last location = /a
4. Go back: last location = /b, previous browser history state = /

Example 3

1. Visit /: last location = null
2. Visit /a: last location = /
3. Visit /b: last location = /a
4. Visit /c: last location = /b
4. Go back to /a (by selecting that state explicitly in "Go back" browser dropdown that is visible upon clicking it with right mouse button): last location = /c, previous browser history state = /

How to use?

``bash


Please remember that you should have installed react, prop-types and react-router-dom packages

npm install react-router-last-location --save
`

If you still use v1.x.x and would like to use hook useLastLocation, please upgrade to v2.x.x version (don't worry, no breaking changes).

`bash
npm install react-router-last-location@^2.0.0


or

index.js

`jsx
import React from 'react';
import { render } from 'react-dom';
import { BrowserRouter as Router, Route, Link } from 'react-router-dom';
import { LastLocationProvider } from 'react-router-last-location';
import Home from './pages/Home';
import About from './pages/About';
import Contact from './pages/Contact';
import Logger from './components/Logger';

const App = () => (




render(, document.getElementById('root'));
`

$3

./components/Logger, see example

`jsx
import React from 'react';
import { useLastLocation } from 'react-router-last-location';

const Logger = () => {
const lastLocation = useLastLocation();

return (


        {JSON.stringify(lastLocation)}
      

`

$3

./components/Logger, see example

`jsx
import React from 'react';
import { withLastLocation } from 'react-router-last-location';

const Logger = ({ lastLocation }) => (


      {JSON.stringify(lastLocation)}
    

export default withLastLocation(Logger);
`

$3

`jsx
import React from 'react';
import { RedirectWithoutLastLocation } from 'react-router-last-location';

const MyPage = () => (

);

export default MyPage;
`

You can still use regular component from react-router but then you need to pass manually the state: { preventLastLocation: true }, like below:

`jsx
import React from 'react';
import { Redirect } from 'react-router-dom';

const MyPage = () => (
to={{
pathname: '/',
state: { preventLastLocation: true },
}}
/>
);

export default MyPage;
`

LastLocationProvider

$3

watchOnlyPathname, type: boolean, default: false

Stores the last route only when pathname` has changed.