Sometimes, we want to pass data when navigating programmatically with React Router.

In this article, we’ll look at how to pass data when navigating programmatically with React Router.

How to pass data when navigating programmatically with React Router?

To pass data when navigating programmatically with React Router, we can call navigate with an object.

Then we can use the useLocation hook to return the object’s data.

For instance, we write

const navigate = useNavigate();
navigate('/other-page', { state: { id: 7, color: 'green' } });

to call navigate with an object that we want to pass to the component we’re navigating to.

Then in the destination component, we write

const { state } = useLocation();
const { id, color } = state;

to call useLocation to return an object with the state property of the object that we passed into navigate.

Conclusion

To pass data when navigating programmatically with React Router, we can call navigate with an object.

Then we can use the useLocation hook to return the object’s data.