Legacy Route

Even if you use react-router<=6.3.0, you can still enjoy the file-system routing provided by remix-flat-routes

Just follow the steps below:

Step 1: Enable legacy routing mode

If react-router-dom version is less than or equal to 6.3.0, you can skip this step.

import { defineConfig } from 'vite'
import { remixFlatRoutes } from 'vite-plugin-remix-flat-routes'

export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [
    remixFlatRoutes({
      legacy: true,
    }),
  ],
})

Step2: Define your route as usual

export default function Hello() {
  return (
    <div>
      <h1>Hello World!</h1>
      <p>This is legacy routing</p>
    </div>
  )
}

Step 3: Create Router

You should use the LegacyRouterProvider component to render the routes

import { BrowserRouter } from 'react-router-dom'
import { routes } from 'virtual:remix-flat-routes'
import { LegacyRouterProvider } from 'vite-plugin-remix-flat-routes/client'


export default function App() {
  return (
      <BrowserRouter>
        <LegacyRouterProvider
            routes={routes}
            onRouteMount={(_payload) => {
              // console.log(payload, 'onRouteMount')
            }}
            onRouteUnmount={(_payload) => {
              // console.log(payload, 'onRouteUnmount')
            }}
            onRouteWillMount={(_payload) => {
              // console.log(payload, 'onRouteWillMount')
            }}
          />
      </BrowserRouter>
    )
}

Step4: Use handle

This Plugin implements handle like react router 6.4.0. You can use it as follows:

import { useEffect } from 'react'
import { type PropsWithMatchRoute, useMatchRoutes } from 'vite-plugin-remix-flat-routes/client'

export const handle = {
  i18n: ['home']
}

export default function Home(props: PropsWithMatchRoute) {
  const matchRoutes = useMatchRoutes<
    () => Promise<{
      i18n: string[]
    }>
  >()

  useEffect(() => {
    console.log(props, 'props')
    console.log(matchRoutes, 'matchRoutes')
  }, [props, matchRoutes])
}

That's it! You can now enjoy the file-system routing with react-router<=6.3.0.

You can check the reference for learn more about the legacy routing.