I replaced react-router with route-recognizer. The later is a simple tool your code is using, has proper documentation and stability, and do not get in the way of automated tests with jest. But react-router changed too much (i.e. removed named routes), has a lot of dependencies (browserhistory, etc), has very poor documentation, and did not allow me to do automated testing at the levels I wanted to. Moreover, it is a "framework": you're code lives inside of it, breathes through it, and that's something I dislike greatly (for such a moderate usefulness).