Changing the URL in react-router v4 without using Redirect or Link

I'm using react-router v4 and material-ui in my React app. I was wondering how to change the URL once there is a click on a GridTile within GridList.

My initial idea was to use a handler for onTouchTap. However, the only way I can see to redirect is by using the components Redirect or Link. How could I change the URL without rendering those two components?

I've tried this.context.router.push('/foo') but it doesn't seem to work.

Try this,

this.props.router.push('/foo')

warning works for versions prior to v4

and

this.props.history.push('/foo')

for v4 and above

I'm using this to redirect with React Router v4:

this.props.history.push('/foo');

> React Router v4

There's a couple of things that I needed to get this working smoothly.

The doc page on auth workflow has quite a lot of what is required.

However I had three issues

1. Where does the props.history come from?
2. How do I pass it through to my component which isn't directly inside the Route component
3. What if I want other props?

I ended up using:

1. option 2 from an answer on 'Programmatically navigate using react router' - i.e. to use <Route render> which gets you props.history which can then be passed down to the children.
2. Use the render={routeProps => <MyComponent {...props} {routeProps} />} to combine other props from this answer on 'react-router - pass props to handler component'

N.B. With the render method you have to pass through the props from the Route component explicitly. You also want to use render and not component for performance reasons (component forces a reload every time).

const App = (props) => (
    <Route 
        path="/home" 
        render={routeProps => <MyComponent {...props} {...routeProps}>}
    />
)

const MyComponent = (props) => (
    /**
     * @link https://reacttraining.com/react-router/web/example/auth-workflow
     * N.B. I use `props.history` instead of `history`
     */
    <button onClick={() => {
        fakeAuth.signout(() => props.history.push('/foo'))
    }}>Sign out</button>
)

One of the confusing things I found is that in quite a few of the React Router v4 docs they use MyComponent = ({ match }) i.e. Object destructuring, which meant initially I didn't realise that Route passes down three props, match, location and history

I think some of the other answers here are assuming that everything is done via JavaScript classes.

Here's an example, plus if you don't need to pass any props through you can just use component

class App extends React.Component {
    render () {
        <Route 
            path="/home" 
            component={MyComponent}
        />
    }
}

class MyComponent extends React.Component {
    render () {
        /**
         * @link https://reacttraining.com/react-router/web/example/auth-workflow
         * N.B. I use `props.history` instead of `history`
         */
        <button onClick={() => {
            this.fakeAuth.signout(() => this.props.history.push('/foo'))
        }}>Sign out</button>
    }
}

This is how I did a similar thing. I have tiles that are thumbnails to YouTube videos. When I click the tile, it redirects me to a 'player' page that uses the 'video_id' to render the correct video to the page.

<GridTile
  key={video_id}
  title={video_title}
  containerElement={<Link to={`/player/${video_id}`}/>}
 >

ETA: Sorry, just noticed that you didn't want to use the LINK or REDIRECT components for some reason. Maybe my answer will still help in some way. ; )