Attempted import error: 'Switch' is not exported from 'react-router-dom'

I don't know why I am getting this error and I can't find an answer for it anywhere. I have uninstalled the react-router-dom package and reinstalled it, but it continues to tell me that the switch module is not exported from react-router-dom. Here's my code.

The error I'm getting:

> Attempted import error: 'Switch' is not exported from 'react-router-dom'.

Code

import React from 'react';
import './App.css';
import NavBar from './components/navbar.js';
import Footer from './components/footer.js';
import Home from './components/pages/homepage/home.js';
import { BrowserRouter as Router, Switch, Route, Link } from 'react-router-dom';

function App() {
  return (
    <Router>
      <div className="app-container">
        <NavBar />
        <Switch>
          <Route path="/home" component={Home} />
        </Switch>
        <Footer />
      </div>
    </Router>
  );
}

export default App;

In react-router-dom v6, "Switch" is replaced by routes "Routes". You need to update the import from

import { Switch, Route } from "react-router-dom";

to

import { Routes ,Route } from 'react-router-dom';

You also need to update the Route declaration from

<Route path="/" component={Home} />

to

<Route path='/welcome' element={<Home/>} />

In react-router-dom, you also do not need to use the exact in the Route declaration.

For more information, you can visit the official documentation: upgrade to react-router-dom v6

If you are using react-router-dom v6 it looks like Switch has been replaced with Routes

This is an example using react-router-dom V6

import React from 'react'
import { BrowserRouter as Router, Route, Routes } from 'react-router-dom'

import '../styles/global.css'

import Layout from '../containers/Layout'
import Home from '../pages/Home'
import Login from '../containers/Login'
import RecoveryPassword from '../containers/RecoveryPassword'
import NotFound from '../pages/NotFound'

const App = () => {
  return (
    <Router>
      <Layout>
        <Routes>
          <Route exact path="/" element={<Home/>}/>
          <Route exact path="/login" element={<Login/>}/>
          <Route exact path="/recovery-password" element={<RecoveryPassword/>}/>
          <Route path="*" element={<NotFound/>}/>
        </Routes>
      </Layout>
    </Router>
  );
}

export default App;

I also faced the same problem, and I searched towards the Internet so much, but I didn't get any answer according to my question.

So I uninstalled the version 6 of react-router-dom:

npm uninstall react-router-dom

And installed version 5.2.0 of react-router-dom:

npm install react-router-dom@5.2.0

Syntax has changed

Old Syntax

import { BrowserRouter as Router, Switch, Route, Link } from "react-router-dom";

<Switch>
    <Route path="/home" component={Home} />
</Switch>

New Syntax:

import { BrowserRouter as Router, Routes, Route, Link } from "react-router-dom";

<Routes>
    <Route path="/home" element={<Home/>} />
</Routes>

If you are using version 6 of react-router-dom, use this

Also, please see here for reference : https://reactrouter.com/docs/en/v6/upgrading/v5#:~:text=single%20route%20config%3A-,//%20This%20is%20a%20React%20Router%20v6%20app,%7D,-This%20step%20is

// This is a React Router v6 app
import {
  BrowserRouter,
  Routes,
  Route,
  Link,
  Outlet
} from "react-router-dom";

function App() {
  return (
    <BrowserRouter>
      <Routes>
        <Route path="/" element={<Home />} />
        <Route path="users" element={<Users />}>
          <Route path="me" element={<OwnUserProfile />} />
          <Route path=":id" element={<UserProfile />} />
        </Route>
      </Routes>
    </BrowserRouter>
  );
}

function Users() {
  return (
    <div>
      <nav>
        <Link to="me">My Profile</Link>
      </nav>

      <Outlet />
    </div>
  );
}

In react-router-dom v6, Switch has been replaced with Routes. Use this format:

import { BrowserRouter as Router, Routes, Route} from 'react-router-dom';

<Router>
    <Routes>
        <Route exact path="/" component={component} />
        <Route exact path="/path2" component={component2} />
        <Route exact path="/path3" component={component3} />
    </Routes>
</Router>

react-router-dom has updated to version 6. Now they have renamed the <Switch/> component to <Routes/>. There are also many changes.

You should spend sometime to read the documentation. Here is the link for react-router-v6-doc.

I was able to fix it by changing from Switch to Routes So you should have something like this:

<Routes>
  <Route path='/home' element={<Home/>} />
</Routes>

and also you need to change the imort from Switch to Routes:

import { Routes, Route } from "react-router-dom";

<Switch> is replaced by <Routes>

Before:

import { Route, Switch} from 'react-router'

<Router>
    <Switch>
        <Route />
        <Route />
    </Switch>
</Router>

Now:

import { Route, Routes} from 'react-router'

<Router>
    <Routes>
        <Route />
        <Route />
    </Routes>
</Router>

Just use Routes instead of Switch.

Change from

import { BrowserRouter as Router, Switch, Route, Link } from "react-router-dom";

<Switch>
    <Route path="/home" component={Home} />
</Switch>

to

import { BrowserRouter as Router, Routes, Route, Link } from "react-router-dom";

<Routes>
    <Route path="/home" element={ <Home />} />
</Routes>

I solved my error by changing the way I was rendering my routes to the use of the element.

To:

import React from "react";
import { BrowserRouter as Router, Route, Routes } from "react-router-dom";
import { Home } from "./app";
import { Login, Register } from "./auth";
const R: React.FC = () => {
  return (
    <Router>
      <Routes>
        <Route path="/login" caseSensitive={false} element={<Login />} />
        <Route path="/register" caseSensitive={false} element={<Register />} />
        <Route path="/" caseSensitive={false} element={<Home />} />
      </Routes>
    </Router>
  );
};
export default R;

Basically before v6.*:

import React from "react";
import { BrowserRouter as Router, Route, Switch} from "react-router-dom";
import { Home } from "./app";
import { Login, Register } from "./auth";
const R: React.FC = () => {
  return (
    <Router>
      <Switch>
        <Route path="/login">
           <Login />
        </Route>
       <Route path="/register">
           <Register/>
        </Route>

       <Route path="/">
           <Home/>
        </Route>
      </Switch>
    </Router>
  );
};
export default R;

After v6.*

import React from "react";
import { BrowserRouter as Router, Route, Routes } from "react-router-dom";
import { Home } from "./app";
import { Login, Register } from "./auth";
const R: React.FC = () => {
  return (
    <Router>
      <Routes>
        <Route path="/login" caseSensitive={false} element={<Login />} />
        <Route path="/register" caseSensitive={false} element={<Register />} />
        <Route path="/" caseSensitive={false} element={<Home />} />
      </Routes>
    </Router>
  );
};
export default R;

You have to check npm package version first. To check, run npm info react-router-dom version.

If the package version is >= 6.0.0, you have to change

import { BrowserRouter as Router, Switch, Route, Link } from "react-router-dom";

to

import { BrowserRouter as Router,Routes, Route, Link } from "react-router-dom";

And also have to change

<Route path="/home" component={Home} />

to

<Route path="/home" element={<Home/>} />

in react-router-dom v6 Switch is Replaced with Routes

and component with element

{componentName} with {}

Write <Routes> instead of <Switch>.

Run this in the terminal:

npm install --save react-router react-router-dom

This helped me. Or check file package.json and add the following right after "react-dom": "^17.0.2",:

 "react-router": "^6.0.0",

Switch is exported from react-router and not react-router-dom (the same goes for Route I think).

If you are using react-router-dom v6, you have to change Switch to Routes as given in the example below:

Instead of importing Switch, import { Switch, ... } from 'react-router-dom';

import Routes import { Routes, ...} from 'react-router-dom';

Then, instead of using component = {ComponentName}, use element={<ComponentName/>} as shown below:

import { Routes, Route, ...} from 'react-router-dom';
    .
    .
    .  
    <Routes>
      <Route exact path='/' element={<Home/>}></Route>
    </Routes>

If you are using version 6 of react-router-dom, then you need to update Switch with Routes. The below syntax worked for me:

import { BrowserRouter as Router, Route, Routes } from "react-router-dom";
import './App.css';
import Home from './components/Home';

function App() {
  return (
    <div>
      <Router>
        <Routes>
          <Route path="/" exact element={<Home />} />
        </Routes>
      </Router>
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

I had the same issue. On the project terminal, type the following commands. You will not need to make any changes to your code.

1. npm uninstall react-router-dom

2. npm install [email protected]

What is your react-router-dom version?

"react-router": "^5.2.0",
"react-router-dom": "^5.2.0",

If it is above one then you need to remove node-modules and reinstall node-module using npm install --save.

Switch has been replaced by Routes

Source from Update routing (react-router-dom syntax) #1386 (howtographql GitHub)

I solved the problem like this:

yarn add react-router-dom@5,3,0

import {
      BrowserRouter as Router,
      Routes,
      Route,
      Link
    } from "react-router-dom";
    
    function App() {
      return (
        <>
        <Router className="App">
          <Navbar/>
          <Routes>
            <Route path='/'>
    
            </Route>
          </Routes>
        </Router>
        </>
      );
    }
    
    export default App;

A solution:

Delete the node_modules folder. In the package.json file, change the react-router-dom version (version 6 in my case) to "react-router-dom": "^5.2.1"

Then in the terminal run:

npm install to install the dependencies and then run npm start to relaunch

This is actually not a problem with you or React or your code. It's just the updated version of react-router-dom. Replace the Switch by Routes.

That’s it. Just use Routes instead of Switch and it works fine.

I got this error after installing react-router-dom v6.0.2.

Replacing Switch with Routes solved the issue:

import {BrowserRouter as Router, Route, Routes} from "react-router-dom";

If you are using a newer version of react-router-dom (for example, ^6.2.1 in my case) you should change <Switch> to <Routes> and use <Route> with the component={<SampleComponent />} parameter.

Particularly the code example below:

import { BrowserRouter as Router, Routes, Route} from 'react-router-dom';
import MyComponent from './containers/MyComponent';

export default function AppRoutes() {
    return (
        <Routes>
            <Route exact path="/" component={<MyComponent />}>
            </Route>
        </Routes>
    );
}

/*Step 1: Step 1. Upgrade to React 16.8+ and react-router-dom v5.2

    npm uninstall react-router-dom
    npm install [email protected]

/*Step 2: Update the react-router-dom import statement.*/
//Change import { Switch, Route } from "react-router-dom";
//to

    import { Routes ,Route } from 'react-router-dom';

/*Step 3: Upgrade the syntax and replace "Switch" with "Routes" and "component" with "element" */
//Change

    // <Switch>
    //          <Route path="/home" component={HomePage} />
    // </Switch>

//to
 

    <Routes>
              <Route path="/home" element={<HomePage/>} />
    </Routes>

//Alternatively you can also downgrade the react-router-version as suggested in other solutions,
//However, rather than going backwards, I would suggest to upgrade to latest version of react-router-dom and its syntax.

If you installed react-router and react-router-dom v6 beta, just uninstall like this:

npm uninstall --save react-router react-router-dom

And install it with this:

npm install --save react-router react-router-dom

It is going to install the latest version that is not beta.

Then we just need to restart Visual Studio Code or whichever text editor you handle it with.

I have faced the same issue and I have removed react-router-dom and then reinstalled it.

The issue occurred because I have upgraded it to the latest version, i.e., react-router-dom v6 and then wanted to downgrade to the previous version, i.e., v5.

I was on Ruby on Rails project and using yarn to manage dependency you can use this command to remove and reinstall it:

yarn remove react-router-dom

yarn add react-router-dom

This should solve the issue.

I was facing the same issue as the issue poster. I tried all things like below:

• uninstall and install react-router-dom
• separately imported Switch from react-router-dom

But nothing really worked for me.

Kindly follow the below instructions. I am sure you will not get the error again.

Correct code:

import React from "react";
import "./App.css";
import NavBar from "./components/navbar.js";
import Footer from "./components/footer.js";
import Home from "./components/pages/homepage/home.js";
import { BrowserRouter as Router, Routes, Route, Link } from "react-router-dom";

function App() {
  return (
    <Router>
      <div className="app-container">
        <NavBar />
        <Routes>
          <Route path="/home" element={<Home/>} />
        </Routes>
        <Footer />
      </div>
    </Router>
  );
}

export default App;

Note: Switch have been replaced with Routes and instead of using component, we need to use element.

I was also facing that issue and finally solved it, by arranging code. I am very new in React.

Following is my App.js code (class base component):

import logo from './logo.svg';
import './App.css';

import React, { Component } from 'react'
import PropTypes from 'prop-types'
import Navbar from './components/Navbar';
import News from './components/News';
import { BrowserRouter as Router, Route, Routes,Link } from 'react-router-dom'

export class App extends Component {
  static propTypes = {

  }

  render() {
    return (
      <>
        <Navbar/>
        <Router>
          <Routes>
            <Route path="/general"><News pageSize={3} country={'us'} category={'general'}/></Route>
          </Routes>
        </Router>
      </>
    )
  }
}

export default App