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To fix the error " Export 'useHistory' was not found in react-router-dom ", use the </head>'s navigation useNavigatehook instead, for example const navigate = useNavigate(). This hook returns a function that allows us to navigate programmatically.

// 👇️ import useNavigate
import {useNavigate} from 'react-router-dom';

export default function App() {
  const navigate = useNavigate();

  const handleClick = () => {
    // 👇️ navigate programmatically
    navigate('/about');
  };

  return (
    <div>
      <button onClick={handleClick}>Navigate to About</button>
    </div>
  );
}

In React Router version 6, useHistory()hooks were useNavigate()replaced by .

useNavigateThe hook returns a function that lets us navigate programmatically, for example after submitting a form.

The argument we pass to the navigate function <Link to="/about">is the same as the to prop on the component.

If you want to use history.replace()the equivalent of the method, optionspass the argument to navigatethe function.

import {useNavigate} from 'react-router-dom';

export default function App() {
  const navigate = useNavigate();

  const handleClick = () => {
    // 👇️ replace set to true
    navigate('/about', {replace: true});
  };

  return (
    <div>
      <button onClick={handleClick}>Navigate to About</button>
    </div>
  );
}

When the replace property optionsof a object is set to true , the current entry in the history stack will be replaced by the new entry.

In other words, navigating to a new route will not push a new entry into the history stack, so if the user clicks the back button, they will not be able to navigate to the previous page.

This is useful, for example, when a user is logged in - we don't want them to be able to click the back button and return to the login page.

Or if we have a route that redirects to a different page - we don't want the user to click the back button and be redirected again.

We can also call navigation functions with increments to go back in the history stack, e.g. navigate(-1)the same as clicking the back button.