You can't blame a tool for the shortcomings of another tool, though :) Fwiw, I concur that React Router is/was a bitch (it's been a while) - I suffered through

You can't blame a tool for the shortcomings of another tool, though :) Fwiw, I concur that React Router is/was a bitch (it's been a while) - I suffered through it too. A client-side hash-based router is ~10 lines of javascript, and is what I'll write unless there's an actual need for anything more.