step one wrap your app in Router
import { BrowserRouter as Router } from "react-router-dom";
ReactDOM.render(<Router><App /></Router>, document.getElementById('root'));
Now my entire App will have access to BrowserRouter. Step two I import Route and then pass down those props. Probably in one of your main files.
import { Route } from "react-router-dom";
//lots of code here
//somewhere in my render function
<Route
exact
path="/" //put what your file path is here
render={props => (
<div>
<NameOfComponent
{...props} //this will pass down your match, history, location objects
/>
</div>
)}
/>
Now if I run console.log(this.props) in my component js file that I should get something that looks like this
{match: {…}, location: {…}, history: {…}, //other stuff }
Step 2 I can access the history object to change my location
//lots of code here relating to my whatever request I just ran delete, put so on
this.props.history.push("/") // then put in whatever url you want to go to
Also I'm just a coding bootcamp student, so I'm no expert, but I know you can also you use
window.location = "/" //wherever you want to go
Correct me if I'm wrong, but when I tested that out it reloaded the entire page which I thought defeated the entire point of using React.