Solid Router: The Complete Guide
Solid Router: The Complete Guide
A practical guide to Solid Router for building fast, reactive, and maintainable navigation in SolidJS apps.
About the Book
Every modern web application needs navigation. Whether it is a small single-page app or a full-fledged platform with nested layouts, dynamic segments, and preloaded data, routing is the connective tissue that ties the user experience together. In the SolidJS world, that job is handled by Solid Router.
This book provides a focused and practical guide to Solid Router.
The content presented here is adapted from my larger work, _SolidJS: The Complete Guide_. In that book, routing is covered alongside the broader fundamentals of SolidJS, including reactivity, component design, state management, server-side rendering. Because routing is a distinct and essential subject, I have extracted the original chapter to serve as a standalone reference for developers who wish to study this topic in depth.
If you are already comfortable with SolidJS basics and want to dive straight into building real applications with routing, this book is for you. It is lean, focused, and ready to get you up and running.
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- Code Examples
- Contact and Feedback
- Requirements
- Trying Solid via Online Playground
- Creating a Project From a Template
- Note For React Developers
- 02. Solid Router
- Setting Up Development Environment
- Client-Only Development Environment
- SolidStart Development Environment
- Installing Solid Router
- Routing Strategies
- Anatomy of a URL
- Clean URLs
- Introducing the
RouterComponent- Error Handling Considerations
- Defining Routes
- Lazy Loading Route Components
- Matching Dynamic Paths
- Filtering Dynamic Paths
- Optional Parameters
- Catch-All Routes and Handling 404s
- Named Wildcards for Flexibility
- Wildcards Beyond Catch-All Routes
- Use Cases for Wildcard Routes
- Matching Multiple Paths in a Route
- Attaching Metadata
- Layouts
- Rendering Different Layouts Conditionally
- Rendering Different Layouts via Nested Routes
- Nested Routes
- Providing a Shared Layout
- Nested Routes via Configuration
- Alternative Routers
- Hash Mode Router
- Memory Router
- Linking and Navigation
- Using Anchor Elements
- Targeting New Tabs or Frames
- Adding Keyboard Shortcuts with
accesskey - Security Considerations for Anchor Elements
- Using the
AComponent - Programmatic Navigation
- The
redirectFunction- Using redirect in Queries and Actions
- Single Flight Mutations
throwvsreturn
- Using Anchor Elements
- Hosting Apps in Subdirectories
- Preloading
- Inside the preload Function
- Manually Preloading with
usePreloadRoute
- Accessing Route Related Data
- Accessing URL Information with
useLocation - Managing Query Parameters with
useSearchParams - Extracting Route Parameters with
useParams - Matching Routes with
useMatchanduseCurrentMatches
- Accessing URL Information with
- Displaying Transition Indicators
- Intercepting Route Changes with
useBeforeLeave - Fetching Async Data
- Deduplicated Data Fetching
- Updating Remote Data With Web Forms
- Working With Web Forms
- Collecting User Inputs and Performing Data Updates
- Providing Unique Names For Serialization
- Passing Arguments Directly
- Programmatically Invoking Actions
- Handling Form Errors
- Helper Functions
- Tracking Form Submissions with
useSubmissionanduseSubmissions
- Reactive Forms with Authentication and Validation
- Setting Up Development Environment
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