I've a little problem with reach router, using react hooks. I need capture the params of the route in the browser I tried with props of the native documentation in the web of reach router but that is not giving me the param, the route is this: http://localhost:8080/home?init=true
How to capture that variable "init"?
In no time, most of us will be redoing this everytime, so it's best to create a custom hook just to do this.
// A custom hook that builds on useLocation to parse // the query string for you. export const useQuery = queryParam => { const search = new URLSearchParams(useLocation().search); return search.get(queryParam); }; 
Reach Router has a useLocation hook you can use:
import { useLocation } from "@reach/router" // then const location = useLocation() In location.search is the search field, containing all the query parameters (query strings) from your URL. In your example, /home?init=true would return location.search: "?init=true", which is a query string.
You can use query-string library (yarn add query-string) to parse this:
import { parse } from "query-string" // then const searchParams = parse(location.search) which would give you object {init: "true"} you could also parse booleans with queryString.parse('foo=true', {parseBooleans: true})
So the full example would be
import { useLocation } from "@reach/router" import { parse } from "query-string" // and const location = useLocation() const searchParams = parse(location.search) // => {init: "true"} 
