What is the difference between Navigate component and UseNavigate hook in react router dom? What are the specific use cases and how to decide which one to use?
I tried to navigate logged in user to a different page. Worked with useNavigate but not with Navigate.
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One is a React component and must be rendered as JSX to the DOM
the other is a React hook that can only be called in a React component or custom React hook
The basic difference between them is the difference between Declarative and Imperative programming. Use the
Navigate
component when rendering JSX to declaratively say what you want the code to do and React will handle the flow, e.g. you are declaring what you want the behavior to be but are not implementing it directly. Use theuseNavigate
hook to access thenavigate
function and imperatively say what you want the code to do.You can not return JSX from a callback as it isn’t part of the JSX that is returned when the component renders.
This doesn’t work because
<Navigate to="/somePath" />
isn’t rendered to have any effect.This works because
navigate
is called imperatively to issue the navigation action.