So you’ve decided to build a React app. It has a few screens, so you need a router. And react-router seems pretty popular, so you npm install it and put together a quick demo. Everything seems fine and dandy!
Or it did, until you googled for some docs the next day. Something seems off. The logo has changed colour from blue to red. And the version number has mysteriously increased from 2 to 4. Huh?
Well at least it didn’t jump to 5. But this makes you think — do I really even need a routing library? Imagine if we lived in a world without JavaScript fatigue where the APIs never change and we could just focus on making awesome stuff. But actually – we kind of do! The browser APIs rarely change. And how much longer could it take to just use them instead of some complicated library?