react-native-navigation

I agree that Ionic's components are easier to work with and less of a hassle. However, React Native components let you talk directly to native, even using native components from the native platform's ecosystem in your code. It's a tradeoff developers have to make. https://github.com/wix/react-native-navigation is beautiful, it uses iOS' own navigation APIs, but it's a pain.

I'm sorry but this seems overstated. There is already two highly competitive navigation libraries: https://github.com/wix/react-native-navigation https://reactnavigation.org Edit: Replaced the word FUD with overstated, to not seem like I'm attacking the author personally.

I recommend https://github.com/wix/react-native-navigation for now, the docs is well done and makes it easier to integrate with. The UI part is implemented natively, but you interact with it on the JavaScript side. AirBnB just started working on one too that seems promising, but it's not ready for primetime yet.

Awesome! I wonder how this compares to wix's native navigation stack: https://github.com/wix/react-native-navigation The problem with all the JS based navigation stacks for React Native (react-native-router-flux, react-router, React Navigation) that I have tried is that if you need to have a back stack, they keep the previous scene in memory. i.e if you look at the 3D view hierarchy in XCode you will see the screen prior to the one you pushed. This really sucks for overdraw perf and completely breaks accessibility on Android. See: https://react-native.canny.io/feature-requests/p/navigator-b...

React Native is a popular method for creating semi-native, JavaScript-based iOS and Android apps, based on the very popular React library. There's no one standard routing/navigation library in the community. As that's quite an important part of almost every app, a new high quality solution is something that any React Native dev would be interested in. I'm sure you know who AirBnB are. They've spent the last year (?) building part of their mobile apps with React Native, and this is their home-grown navigation library. Now, most React Native components (including navigation libraries) are built almost entirely in JavaScript, but this one is one of a few which "bridge" the native iOS and Android APIs, potentially resulting in a more natural and familiar feel. There's one other semi-native nav option out there, Wix's React Native Navigation[1

Hello! The examples use a navigation library that is implemented entirely in JavaScript and it does not currently aim for 100% accuracy for platform gestures and animations. Pure JS navigation is a work in progress with React Native but, in my eyes, it's the ideal end-state (see a post I wrote here for more info: https://blog.expo.io/good-practices-why-you-should-use-javas...), but to get there we need some more powerful low level primitives such as a better gesture API. If you prefer to trade-off customizability for platform-specific animations, you can use NavigatorIOS with Expo/CRNA - https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/navigatorios.ht.... If you eject, you can use a library like react-native-navigation (https://github.com/wix/react-native-navigation) which bridges the native navigation APIs, or an upcoming library from Airbnb

This is true. Some great ones exist (like https://github.com/airbnb/react-native-maps and https://github.com/wix/react-native-navigation), but those are few and far between. Most are very simplistic and only solve very narrow cases. So you end up having to do a lot of the work yourself, for both platforms. And that is a big chore, as there is a lot of boilerplate to integrate native components with RN. Disclaimer: react-native-navigation is developed by Wix, my employer, but I have not worked on that one.

No mention yet of [React Native Navigation](https://github.com/wix/react-native-navigation) which would probably be the closest competing project. A cursory look show that the parent project does not use a native navigation bar on Android. NavBar buttons look pretty bad. RNN linked above uses native NavBar/NavBarButtons on both platforms and looks much better. But RNN comes with it's downsides. It's under heavy development. It's less of a community project (wix offers it up but doesn't take community patches much).