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React Router

To integrate Toolpad Core into a single-page app (with Vite, for example) using React Router, follow these steps.

Wrap all your pages in an AppProvider

In your router configuration (e.g.: src/main.tsx), use a shared component or element (e.g.: src/App.tsx) as a root layout route that wraps the whole application with the AppProvider from @toolpad/core/react-router-dom.

You must use the <Outlet /> component from react-router-dom in this root layout element or component.

src/main.tsx
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom/client';
import { createBrowserRouter, RouterProvider } from 'react-router-dom';
import App from './App';
import DashboardPage from './pages';
import OrdersPage from './pages/orders';

const router = createBrowserRouter([
  {
    Component: App, // root layout route
  },
]);

ReactDOM.createRoot(document.getElementById('root')!).render(
  <React.StrictMode>
    <RouterProvider router={router} />
  </React.StrictMode>,
);
src/App.tsx
import * as React from 'react';
import DashboardIcon from '@mui/icons-material/Dashboard';
import ShoppingCartIcon from '@mui/icons-material/ShoppingCart';
import { AppProvider } from '@toolpad/core/react-router-dom';
import { Outlet } from 'react-router-dom';
import type { Navigation } from '@toolpad/core';

const NAVIGATION: Navigation = [
  {
    kind: 'header',
    title: 'Main items',
  },
  {
    title: 'Dashboard',
    icon: <DashboardIcon />,
  },
  {
    segment: 'orders',
    title: 'Orders',
    icon: <ShoppingCartIcon />,
  },
];

const BRANDING = {
  title: 'My Toolpad Core App',
};

export default function App() {
  return (
    <AppProvider navigation={NAVIGATION} branding={BRANDING}>
      <Outlet />
    </AppProvider>
  );
}

Create a dashboard layout

Create a layout file for your dashboard pages (e.g.: src/layouts/dashboard.tsx), to also be used as a layout route with the <Outlet /> component from react-router-dom:

src/layouts/dashboard.tsx
import * as React from 'react';
import { Outlet } from 'react-router-dom';
import { DashboardLayout } from '@toolpad/core/DashboardLayout';
import { PageContainer } from '@toolpad/core/PageContainer';

export default function Layout() {
  return (
    <DashboardLayout>
      <PageContainer>
        <Outlet />
      </PageContainer>
    </DashboardLayout>
  );
}

The DashboardLayout component provides a consistent layout for your dashboard pages, including a sidebar, navigation, and header. The PageContainer component is used to wrap the page content, and provides breadcrumbs for navigation.

You can then add this layout component to your React Router configuration (e.g.: src/main.tsx), as a child of the root layout route created above.

src/main.tsx
import Layout from './layouts/dashboard';

//...
const router = createBrowserRouter([
  {
    Component: App, // root layout route
    children: [
      {
        path: '/',
        Component: Layout,
      },
    ],
  },
]);
//...

Create pages

Create a dashboard page (e.g.: src/pages/index.tsx) and an orders page (src/pages/orders.tsx).

src/pages/index.tsx
import * as React from 'react';
import Typography from '@mui/material/Typography';

export default function DashboardPage() {
  return <Typography>Welcome to Toolpad!</Typography>;
}
src/pages/orders.tsx
import * as React from 'react';
import Typography from '@mui/material/Typography';

export default function OrdersPage() {
  return <Typography>Welcome to the Toolpad orders!</Typography>;
}

You can then add these page components as routes to your React Router configuration (e.g.: src/main.tsx). By adding them as children of the layout route created above, they are automatically wrapped with that dashboard layout:

src/main.tsx
import DashboardPage from './pages';
import OrdersPage from './pages/orders';

//...
const router = createBrowserRouter([
  {
    Component: App, // root layout route
    children: [
      {
        path: '/',
        Component: Layout,
        children: [
          {
            path: '',
            Component: DashboardPage,
          },
          {
            path: 'orders',
            Component: OrdersPage,
          },
        ],
      },
    ],
  },
]);
//...

That's it! You now have Toolpad Core integrated into your single-page app with React Router!

(Optional) Set up authentication

You can use the SignInPage component to add authentication along with an external authentication provider of your choice. The following code demonstrates the code required to set up authentication with a mock provider.

Define a SessionContext to act as the mock authentication provider

src/SessionContext.ts
import * as React from 'react';
import type { Session } from '@toolpad/core';

export interface SessionContextValue {
  session: Session | null;
  setSession: (session: Session | null) => void;
}

export const SessionContext = React.createContext<SessionContextValue>({
  session: {},
  setSession: () => {},
});

export function useSession() {
  return React.useContext(SessionContext);
}

Add the mock authentication and session data to the AppProvider

src/App.tsx
import * as React from 'react';
import DashboardIcon from '@mui/icons-material/Dashboard';
import ShoppingCartIcon from '@mui/icons-material/ShoppingCart';
import { AppProvider } from '@toolpad/core/react-router-dom';
import { Outlet, useNavigate } from 'react-router-dom';
import type { Navigation, Session } from '@toolpad/core';
import { SessionContext } from './SessionContext';

const NAVIGATION: Navigation = [
  {
    kind: 'header',
    title: 'Main items',
  },
  {
    title: 'Dashboard',
    icon: <DashboardIcon />,
  },
  {
    segment: 'orders',
    title: 'Orders',
    icon: <ShoppingCartIcon />,
  },
];

const BRANDING = {
  title: 'My Toolpad Core App',
};

export default function App() {
  const [session, setSession] = React.useState<Session | null>(null);
  const navigate = useNavigate();

  const signIn = React.useCallback(() => {
    navigate('/sign-in');
  }, [navigate]);

  const signOut = React.useCallback(() => {
    setSession(null);
    navigate('/sign-in');
  }, [navigate]);

  const sessionContextValue = React.useMemo(
    () => ({ session, setSession }),
    [session, setSession],
  );

  return (
    <SessionContext.Provider value={sessionContextValue}>
      <AppProvider
        navigation={NAVIGATION}
        branding={BRANDING}
        session={session}
        authentication={{ signIn, signOut }}
      >
        <Outlet />
      </AppProvider>
    </SessionContext.Provider>
  );
}

Protect routes inside the dashboard layout

src/layouts/dashboard.tsx
import * as React from 'react';
import { Outlet, Navigate, useLocation } from 'react-router-dom';
import { DashboardLayout } from '@toolpad/core/DashboardLayout';
import { PageContainer } from '@toolpad/core/PageContainer';
import { useSession } from '../SessionContext';

export default function Layout() {
  const { session } = useSession();
  const location = useLocation();

  if (!session) {
    // Add the `callbackUrl` search parameter
    const redirectTo = `/sign-in?callbackUrl=${encodeURIComponent(location.pathname)}`;

    return <Navigate to={redirectTo} replace />;
  }

  return (
    <DashboardLayout>
      <PageContainer>
        <Outlet />
      </PageContainer>
    </DashboardLayout>
  );
}

You can protect any page or groups of pages through this mechanism.

Use the SignInPage component to create a sign-in page

src/pages/signIn.tsx
'use client';
import * as React from 'react';
import { SignInPage } from '@toolpad/core/SignInPage';
import type { Session } from '@toolpad/core/AppProvider';
import { useNavigate } from 'react-router-dom';
import { useSession } from '../SessionContext';

const fakeAsyncGetSession = async (formData: any): Promise<Session> => {
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    setTimeout(() => {
      if (formData.get('password') === 'password') {
        resolve({
          user: {
            name: 'Bharat Kashyap',
            email: formData.get('email') || '',
            image: 'https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/19550456',
          },
        });
      }
      reject(new Error('Incorrect credentials.'));
    }, 1000);
  });
};

export default function SignIn() {
  const { setSession } = useSession();
  const navigate = useNavigate();
  return (
    <SignInPage
      providers={[{ id: 'credentials', name: 'Credentials' }]}
      signIn={async (provider, formData, callbackUrl) => {
        // Demo session
        try {
          const session = await fakeAsyncGetSession(formData);
          if (session) {
            setSession(session);
            navigate(callbackUrl || '/', { replace: true });
            return {};
          }
        } catch (error) {
          return {
            error: error instanceof Error ? error.message : 'An error occurred',
          };
        }
        return {};
      }}
    />
  );
}

Add the sign in page to the router

src/main.tsx
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom/client';
import { createBrowserRouter, RouterProvider } from 'react-router-dom';
import App from './App';
import Layout from './layouts/dashboard';
import DashboardPage from './pages';
import OrdersPage from './pages/orders';
import SignInPage from './pages/signIn';

const router = createBrowserRouter([
  {
    Component: App,
    children: [
      {
        path: '/',
        Component: Layout,
        children: [
          {
            path: '/',
            Component: DashboardPage,
          },
          {
            path: '/orders',
            Component: OrdersPage,
          },
        ],
      },
      {
        path: '/sign-in',
        Component: SignInPage,
      },
    ],
  },
]);

ReactDOM.createRoot(document.getElementById('root')!).render(
  <React.StrictMode>
    <RouterProvider router={router} />
  </React.StrictMode>,
);