Luckily, saner heads prevail and the head product designer (the highest ranked of the five designers now employed by the company) says that they need only three views for the prototype: the login view (done!), the main chat view, and the user profile view.
Still, we clearly need a robust and extensible way to move between different screens in our app. We need a good solid routing solution.
Traditionally, routing has been a question of which HTML/CSS/JavaScript files are served up. You hit the URL at static-site.com and get the main index.html, then go to static-site.com/resources and get the resources.html.
In this model, the server gets a request for a certain URL and returns the appropriate files.
Increasingly, however, routing is moving to the client side. In a React world, we only ever serve up our index.html and bundle.js. Our JavaScript takes in the URL from...
