Questions regarding Routes and useNavigationType

[vaibhavm02]

Hi, we are in the process of upgrading our app to react-router-dom version 6 and there are certain issues that we are facing. I feel like I need more understanding around the concepts or the new changes introduced but the documentation falls a little short in details. So, I would like to understand a bit more about the following:

1. When we pass location as prop to <Routes> in react-router-dom v6 like <Routes location={location}>...</Routes>, useNavigationType always returns "POP" on any action inside the individual routes. I would like to understand if this is intentional and the reasoning behind the same.

2. matchPath in v6 works differently than in v5. Now, when passing "" as path it returns null. In v5 on passing the same it returned the component matching / route. What is the reason behind this change?

Thank you!