How to Create a Navigation Bar With React-Router, Styled-Components, And Infrastructure-Components
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9 min readAug 15, 2019
TL;DR: Most tutorials focus on the design of navigation bars. They leave uncovered the functional aspects:
- How do you create an app with routes to navigate to?
- How do you populate the navigation bar with links to these routes?
- How do you position the links (e.g. left-/right-aligned) depending on a custom characteristic of the route?
- How do you highlight the page’s currently active route?
This hands-on tutorial focuses on these functional parts. But don’t worry. You can easily apply your great design to this functional navigation bar, too.
This post is the part of the book: React-Architect: Full-Stack React App Development and Serverless Deployment.
What do we expect from a navigation bar?
Navigation is a critical part of an application. New users do not know the structure of the app’s content. Self-Explanatory navigation helps them to find interesting content. Experienced users rely on the navigation to get to…
