We can enable routing in a React-based application by using React Router, a package that provides us with specific React components that allow us to set up a complete routing system.

We install that package in our application by typing the following command inside of the application's folder:

npm install --save react-router-dom

React Router provides three packages:

• react-router
• react-router-dom
• react-router-native

The first package provides the core routing components and functionalities. The second one provides specific components for the browser environment, and the third one supports react-native, an environment that maps React components to native mobile UI widgets. Both react-router-dom and react-router-native use react-router functionalities.