19 November 2019

Use this snippet when you have created a menu using BrowserRouter from 'react-router-dom' and you need to reset the state when you click on the current menu item (same url path as you are currently on).

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  1. componentWillReceiveProps(nextProps) {
  2.   if (nextProps.location.pathname === window.location.pathname) {
  3.     this.setState({...this.initialState})
  4.   }
  5. }
Programming Language: ECMAScript