The react-router has a dependency on the history package. The history package is a JavaScript library utilized in maintaining sessions in any JavaScript application. Consider the following quote from the history documentation (https://github.com/ReactTraining/history).
The history object has several properties and methods:
- action: The current action, PUSH, POP, or REPLACE.
- length: The count of entries in the history stack.
- location: The current location, which includes the hash, pathname, search, and state properties:
- hash: Hash fragment.
- pathname: URL path.
- search: URL query string.
- state: The state information provided when navigating from one route to the other, using location.pushState.
- block(): A function that registers a prompt message that will be displayed when the user tries to navigate away from the current page.
- createHref(): A function that...