For the server side, the BrowserRouter will not work and thus StaticRouter is to be used as per documentation. I am doing same but I am still getting the error. Following is my setup
Invariant Violation: Browser history needs a DOM
import React from 'react';
import ReactDOMServer from 'react-dom/server';
import { StaticRouter as Router } from 'react-router';
// import our main App component
import App from '../src/App';
const path = require('path');
const fs = require('fs');
export default (req, res) => {
// get the html file created by CRA's build tool
console.log('url : ', req.baseUrl);
const filePath = path.resolve(__dirname, '..', '..', 'build', 'index.html');
fs.readFile(filePath, 'utf8', (err, htmlData) => {
if (err) {
console.error('err', err);
return res.status(404).end();
}
// render the app as a string
const html = ReactDOMServer
.renderToString(<Router location={req.baseUrl}>
<App />
</Router>);
// now inject the rendered app into our html and send it
return res.send(htmlData
.replace('<div id="root"></div>', `<div id="root">${html}</div>`));
});
};