If I am understanding you correctly . I made calls with a library called Axios . Promise based http requests . React Router had nothing to do with my api routes . So make the calls where you need . for me it was in my actions using redux but if you don ' t have that big of a data layer up front just place the calls in a life cycle method . <| sep |> Also , the first Dragonriders of Pern audiobook is on sale . worth listening to ? <| sep |> Read the message above . <| sep |> And that macklemore song with the mopeds lol <| sep |> I went to a hospital and saw a person who according to ' doctors ' had bone cancer . They looked fine to me though so those professionals are clearly wrong . Typical eggheads . All it takes is a bit of the old onceover from a complete layman to get to the facts of a case .