collapseOnSelect in react-bootstrap navbars with react-router-dom NavLinks

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I'm making a website where I'm using react-router-dom's NavLink components to prevent rerenders for a single page application experience.

As I am trying to make the site responsive, I have been trying to make the responsive navbar from react-bootstrap collapse after selecting a NavLink, but the collapseOnSelect behaviour doesn't seem to work for anything other than the Nav.Link components that come with react-bootstrap.

Other solutions have recommended passing down props to the nav (navExpanded:true) with manual toggle functions etc, but this seems to still force a rerender due to the state change. The main reason I want to avoid this is because I have made transitions between pages using react-transitions-group.

<Navbar collapseOnSelect expand="md" variant="dark">
    <Container>
        <Navbar.Brand href="/"><Logo/></Navbar.Brand>
        <Navbar.Toggle aria-controls="responsive-navbar-nav" />
        <Navbar.Collapse id="responsive-navbar-nav">
            <Nav className="Navs ml-auto">
                <NavLink className="nav-link" to="/about">ABOUT</NavLink>
                <NavLink className="nav-link" to="/portfolio">PORTFOLIO</NavLink>
                <NavLink className="nav-link" to="/contact">CONTACT</NavLink>
            </Nav>
        </Navbar.Collapse>
    </Container>
</Navbar>

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

react-router-dom react-bootstrap reactjs
4 Answers

I have the same problem, i use the Nav.Link from 'react-bootstrap' as Link from 'react-router-dom', don't forget to add the href attribut. In this example all links except pizzas link collapse the nav bar. Hope it's Help You.

import React from 'react';
import { Navbar, Nav } from 'react-bootstrap';
import NavBrand from './NavBrand/NavBrand';
import { Link } from 'react-router-dom';

const Navigation = ({ brand }) => {
    return (
        <Navbar collapseOnSelect expand='sm' bg='dark' variant='dark' fixed='top'>
            <NavBrand text={brand.text} />
            <Navbar.Toggle aria-controls='responsive-navbar-nav' />
            <Navbar.Collapse id='responsive-navbar-nav'>
                <Nav className='mr-auto'>
                    <Nav.Link as={Link} to='/assiettes' href='/assiettes'>
                        ASSIETTES
                    </Nav.Link>
                    <Nav.Link as={Link} to='/pizzas'>
                        PIZZAS
                    </Nav.Link>

                    <Nav.Link as={Link} to='/sandwichs' href='/sandwichs'>
                        SANDWICHS
                    </Nav.Link>

                    <Nav.Link as={Link} to='/tacos' href='/tacos'>
                        TACOS
                    </Nav.Link>
                </Nav>
            </Navbar.Collapse>
        </Navbar>
    );
};

export default Navigation;
user_49957620

Found an answer that worked for me on a similar post. Adding EventKey="1", EventKey="2", etc. to the NavLink items was all it needed. I am using react-router and never needed to switch it to react-router-bootstrap.

This answer helped me.

user_138503030

I found the solution.

You need to use react-router-bootstrap instead of react-router to make it work.

Example:

import { Navbar, Nav } from "react-bootstrap";
import React from "react";
import { LinkContainer } from "react-router-bootstrap";

class Navigation extends React.Component {

  render() {
    return (
        <Navbar collapseOnSelect>
          <Navbar.Brand/>
          <Navbar.Toggle/>
          <Navbar.Collapse>
            <Nav className="mr-auto">
              <LinkContainer to="/page1/">
                <Nav.Link>Create</Nav.Link>
              </LinkContainer>
              <LinkContainer to="/page2/">
                <Nav.Link>Open Disputes</Nav.Link>
              </LinkContainer>
            </Nav>
          </Navbar.Collapse>
        </Navbar>
    );
  }
}

export default Navigation;
user_10799080

Use these settings and it will work.

import { Nav, Navbar } from "react-bootstrap";
import { useHistory, Link } from "react-router-dom";

     <Nav.Link // Use Nav.Link from react-bootstrap

        as={Link}  // Use as prop and set to Link from react-router-dom  
 
        eventKey="0" // add different eventKey to all Nav.link

        to="/profile"
      >
        Profile
      </Nav.Link>
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