Handling dynamic routes

In web application development, a dynamic route refers to a route that employs a placeholder to represent a changing value. This placeholder can be used to handle various dynamic content. You can have placeholders such as speakerId, productId, postId, and so on to represent the changing value.

For instance, let’s consider the preceding speakers route we updated with /speakers/:speakerId. It is conventional to add a colon in front of a dynamic route, like so: :speakerId. So, how can we retrieve this value of speakerId from the URL? This is where the useParams hook comes in.

Using useParams

The useParams hook in React Router provides access to the dynamic parameters extracted from a route. These parameters are the values that correspond to the placeholders in the path of a dynamic route.

For instance, in the following code snippet, the useParams hook is used to retrieve SpeakerId from the /speakers/:speakerId route. The following code shows...