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React Native Navigation Library

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Re: React Native Navigation Library

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Post by lacker »

This was a pretty interesting presentation at React Conf. Basically, the Airbnb app started off being totally developed in native code, and they only added React Native later on, so it was really important that their navigation solution be able to handle transitions between screens implemented in native code and screens implemented in React Native.

I liked Leland's metaphor of calling apps like Airbnb which started out without React Native as "brown field" development and calling apps that start out as React Native "green field" development.

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Post by grabbou »

Native navigation is definitely a great addition to the community. It's good to see a company, like Airbnb, driving its feature development by their use-cases. Having such a solution in production, used at such scale, is definitely going to secure stability of navigation - something that we were missing for quite a while.

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Post by evv »

Congrats to the team at AirBnB on the exciting launch! As somebody who has thought a lot about navigation on React Native, I'm super excited to see an easier way to utilize the native navigation views on each platform.

React Navigation, released a few weeks ago, includes a customizable JS re-implementation of the native views, and it also provides routers that make it very easy to plug your navigation logic into redux. Because each screen makes no assumption about the surrounding app, it will be very easy to switch from React Navigation to AirBnB's native-navigation.

The RN community has been consolidating efforts between several navigation solutions. React Navigation is an alternative to Navigator, Ex-Navigator, NavigationExperimental, and Ex-Navigation. And now, thanks to native-navigation, the community has a great alternative to NavigatorIOS.

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Post by mjs7231 »

Am I the only one wondering what the heck this actually is? The page this linked to just goes right into a guide on how to use it but doesn't explain what it is. The github page has a nifty looking guy on it, but once again it's just a jumble of buzzwords I do not understand at all. Why does the Javascript community make me feel stupid?

App-wide support for 100% native navigation with an easy cross-platform interface. For iOS, this package is a wrapper around react-native-controllers, but provides a simplified more abstract API over it. This abstract API will be unified with the Android solution which is currently work in progress. It also fully supports redux if you use it.

What does this mean?

Re: React Native Navigation Library

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Post by kovek »

mjs7231 wrote: post #8

Am I the only one wondering what the heck this actually is? The page this linked to just goes right into a guide on how to use it but doesn't explain what it is. The github page has a nifty looking guy on it, but once again it's just a jumble of buzzwords I do not understand at all. Why does the Javascript community make me feel stupid? App-wide support for 100% native navigation with an easy cross-platform interface…

Which part do you not understand? It sounds like this will work on more than one platform, it acts as a simple interface for some other tool. Also, they are working on this for Android.
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