From NavBar Mess to React Router Success! Fixing Layouts, Routing & AIOHA in One Go 🚀

🛠️ From NavBar Mess to React Router Success! 😂

Hello Hive Community 👋,

• 📚 Day before yesterday, we built a fresh React app and integrated AIOHA.
• 🧭 Yesterday, we explored routing... but yeah, our NavBar decided to rebel. 😤

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🎯 Today’s Mission (Impossible?)

1. Fix the broken NavBar 😵
2. Integrate navigation using react-router-dom’s <Link>
3. Create a layout to avoid repeating NavBar on every page

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🪛 Fixing the NavBar Bug

See this monstrosity above? 😱 That’s what we got even though we copied the beautiful DaisyUI navbar. 🤔
After a LOT of head-scratching and a few cups of chai ☕...

Boom! Found it — I forgot to import daisyui in app.css 🤦
One small import for me, one giant leap for NavBar!

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🧩 Updated NavBar Component

import React from "react";
import HiveUserAvatarButton from "./HiveUserAvatarButton";

const NavBar = () => {
  return (
    <div className="navbar bg-base-100 shadow-sm">
      <div className="flex-1">
        <a className="btn btn-ghost text-xl">Distriator</a>
      </div>
      <div className="flex-none">
        <HiveUserAvatarButton />
      </div>
    </div>
  );
};

export default NavBar;

Notice we’re using a fancy new HiveUserAvatarButton component 👇

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🧑‍🚀 Custom AIOHA Login Button

Time to ditch that boring default button.
Let’s use our custom-built login avatar button that:

• Shows a Login button if user is not logged in
• Displays avatar if logged in ✅

import { useState } from "react";
import { useAioha, AiohaModal } from "@aioha/react-ui";
import { KeyTypes } from "@aioha/aioha";
import "@aioha/react-ui/dist/build.css";

const HiveUserAvatarButton = () => {
  const [modalDisplayed, setModalDisplayed] = useState(false);
  const { user } = useAioha();

  function userAvatarBasedButton() {
    return (
      <div className="avatar" onClick={() => setModalDisplayed(true)}>
        <div className="w-10 rounded-full overflow-hidden">
          <img src={`https://images.hive.blog/u/${user}/avatar`} />
        </div>
      </div>
    );
  }

  function loginButton() {
    return (<button className="btn btn-primary" onClick={() => setModalDisplayed(true)}>Login</button>);
  }

  function aiohaModel() {
    return (
      <div>
        <AiohaModal
          displayed={modalDisplayed}
          loginOptions={{
            msg: "Login",
            keyType: KeyTypes.Posting,
          }}
          onLogin={console.log}
          onClose={setModalDisplayed}
        />
      </div>
    );
  }

  return (
    <>
      {user ? userAvatarBasedButton() : loginButton()}
      {aiohaModel()}
    </>
  );
};

export default HiveUserAvatarButton;

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🧱 Let’s Build a Common Layout

Because... DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) 😅

import React from 'react'
import NavBar from './NavBar'

const CommonLayout = ({children}) => {
  return (
    <>
      <div>
        <NavBar />
      </div>
      <main>{children}</main>
    </>
  );
}

export default CommonLayout;

🎉 Now every page can reuse this layout with the NavBar already baked in.

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📄 Using the Common Layout on a Page

import React from 'react'
import CommonLayout from '../../Components/CommonLayout'

const AboutUsPage = () => {
  return (
    <CommonLayout>
      <div>AboutUsPage</div>
    </CommonLayout>
  )
}

export default AboutUsPage;

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🧭 Add Nav Links for Navigation

Time to give our NavBar a promotion by adding About Us & Contact Us links!

Thank you DaisyUI for making this super easy. Just ✂️ copy & paste...

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🔗 Use React Router’s <Link> — No More <a>

Replace all old-school <a href> with <Link to> from react-router-dom —
That way, no page refreshes and smooth routing FTW ⚡

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🧑‍💻 Final Words

Today’s work may look small but helped build strong foundation for the app.

• ✅ NavBar fixed
• ✅ AIOHA integrated smartly
• ✅ Routing UX improved
• ✅ Codebase looks cleaner

Thanks for following along! See you in the next post 🚀

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Happy Building! 💻❤️

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📝 Final Note

• I asked ChatGPT/AI to help optimize this post to make it more readable and viewer-friendly.
• Here is the link where you can find both original content & improvements made by AI
• https://chatgpt.com/share/688771b9-0c28-8000-aef5-24976fe84278

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🚀 My Contributions to ♦️ Hive Ecosystem

Contribution	To	Hive	Ecosystem
Hive Witness Node	Hive API Node (in progress)	3Speak Video Encoder Node Operator (highest number of nodes)	3Speak Mobile App Developer
3Speak Podcast App Developer	3Speak Shorts App Developer	3Speak Support & Maintenance Team	Distriator Developer
CheckinWithXYZ	Hive Inbox	HiFind	Hive Donate App
Contributed to HiveAuth Mobile App	Ecency ↔ 3Speak Integration	Ecency ↔ InLeo Integration	Ecency ↔ Actifit Integration
Hive Stats App	Vote for Witness App	HiveFlutterKit	New 3Speak App

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