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reactjs react router picking up changes in the url I know you can access params id in a url using this.props.match.params. My question is how do you pick up changes the user may have manipulated in the url? Ex: orginal url passed from router in props http://localhost:3000/user/3456653/newPage The user fills out the page and messes with the url params id Ex: http://localhost:3000/user/888888/newPage Is there a way I can check if the params are the same before making my api call to store the data? I am using "react-router-dom": "4.2.2" 1 Answer 1 You can compare your parameters in the componentDidUpdate hook of the component given to your Route to find out when it changed. componentDidUpdate Route Example (CodeSandbox) class MyComponent extends Component { componentDidUpdate(prevProps) { const prevPathParameter = prevProps.match.params.pathParameter; const newPathParame...