TypeError: history is undefined

Question

When I am using the history.push function, it always returns this error

TypeError: history is undefined

import React from 'react';
import { useHistory } from 'react-router-dom';


function App() {
  let history = useHistory();

  function testing() {
    history.push("/whatever");
  }
  return (
    <div className="App">
      <button onClick={testing}>Test</button>
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

My packages:

{
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "private": true,
  "dependencies": {
    "@testing-library/jest-dom": "^5.14.1",
    "@testing-library/react": "^11.2.7",
    "@testing-library/user-event": "^12.8.3",
    "react": "^17.0.2",
    "react-dom": "^17.0.2",
    "react-router-dom": "^5.2.1",
    "react-scripts": "4.0.3",
    "web-vitals": "^1.1.2"
  },

and finally, the error I'm getting:

Error

Answer 1

I assume App is the first component after your index.js, then you will need to wrap it around a <BrowserRouter> to use useHistory()

Something like this in your root (index) component:

import React from "react";
import ReactDOM from "react-dom";
import { BrowserRouter } from "react-router-dom";

import App from "./App";

const rootElement = document.getElementById("root");
ReactDOM.render(
  <BrowserRouter>
    <App />
  </BrowserRouter>,
  rootElement
);