FAQ: React Router - <Redirect>

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React Router
(Beta) Learn React Router

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High level question

Are the first two paragraphs below a correct/accurate high level understanding of React, Route, etc.?

The power of React, Routes, etc. is that we are not actually going from one HTML page to another. React (technically Route) is/are causing certain components to be displayed, depending on user input. “Links” in a React app are essentially advanced onClick event listeners, that are configured to show/hide certain components.

This functionality is on some level indiscernible from navigating around a classic web site, simulating a classic site map from the Web 1.0 days (where all the pages were in different directories, etc.)

Is all of this possible in vanilla JS–it is just that React just abstracts all of this into the React syntax?