React Router Basic Nav

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Project Description

A starter pack project for all things React Router. Learn to set up a basic routing system within an application. Use this application to help guide your learning over the next couple of days.
Note that this project has already been boilerplated for you. There is no need to run any installation steps beyond yarn install.

You'll notice we've already installed react-router-dom for you.
import your BrowserRouter as Router inside your index.js file.
Wrap your <App /> component that you're passing to ReactDOM.render() with your new Router component.
open up your chrome REACT DEV TOOLS and notice your app is now all wrapped in BrowserRouter
inside the REACT DEV TOOLS expand <BrowserRouter> and highlight <Router> and notice that here is a "history" object on props and a "match" object on its state. These two objects are how all of our Router is going to work.

Inside of your App.js file import { Route } from 'react-router-dom';
This is where we're going to declare and specify our router.
Create 3 <Route /> setting their path prop equal to /, /about, /contact with their respective components.
Be sure to incluce the exact prop on the root component for / to make sure that it's rendering the exact component and not all the other components.

Inside of Navigation.js import { Link } from 'react-router-dom'.
Declare the to as the href on <Link> and specify the correct routes for your app to navigate towards.
Head over to your app and start navigating. You should be able to see your URLS changing their paths as you go. Each path should display the proper component.