How to do navigation in React Native web?

The above is the code for FeedScreen, which is a simple text, and a button. The button when clicked should go directly to the profile screen.

// Profile screen import React from 'react'; import {View, Text, StyleSheet, Button, Platform} from 'react-native'; export default class Profile extends React.Component { render() { return This is the profile screen

Let’s also create stack navigation to connect these two screens together:

// Home.js, just a name of the stack navigation import {createStackNavigator} from 'react-navigation-stack'; import {createAppContainer} from 'react-navigation'; import Feed from "../screens/Feed"; import Profile from "../screens/Profile"; const Home = createStackNavigator( { Profile: Profile, Feed: Feed, }, { navigationOptions: { headerTintColor: '#fff', headerStyle: { backgroundColor: '#000', }, }, } ); const container = createAppContainer(Home); export default container;

Since the object that’s passed to CreateStackNavigator Profile comes first, the Profile screen is the default screen of this stack navigator.

Now, in the App.js file, simply render the Home Navigation.

// App.js export default function App() { return ( ); }

Just run the app using command expo start , and it should launch the expo bundler for you.

If you press i to launch the Expo app in the IOS simulator in the terminal, the following screen comes up on display, if everything goes well.

The click functionality also works on the web as well. The top border is for the screen title, you can add it by adding navigationOptions to the feed and profile screen like this.

export default class Feed extends React.Component { static navigationOptions = { title: "Feed" } ...

In the app, there is no way a user can directly jump to a screen other than the default screen, but in the browser it is possible, a user can enter a URL.

The good part of react–navigation is that it supports URL updates when the screen changes. The way navigationOptions is added inside the screen class similarly you can also add title.

export default class Feed extends React.Component { static navigationOptions = { title: "Feed" } static path = "feed"; render() { ...

For the profile screen, you can keep the path as empty static path = "".

When you go to http://localhost:19006/feed, the web app would understand that you want to go to the feed screen and will render that for you. Try going to http://localhost:19006/feed directly, and it should render the feed page for you.

But when you click on the Go to Feed button, the URL won’t change.

And, this module doesn’t work when you try to run the app. So, we use Platform module provided by react–native to differentiate between web and app.

// feed screen import React from 'react'; import {View, Text, StyleSheet, Button, Platform} from 'react-native'; import {Link} from "@react-navigation/web"; const isWeb = Platform.OS === 'web'; export default class Feed extends React.Component { static navigationOptions = { title: "Feed" } static path = "feed"; render() { return This is the feed screen { !isWeb ?

Here, we are conditionally rendering the Link and the Button.

You need to do similar changes for the Profile screen as well. Also, in the navigation container, instead of createAppContainer you need to use createBrowserApp for the web.

Here is the code for the navigation:

// Home.js, just a name of the stack navigation import {createStackNavigator} from 'react-navigation-stack'; import {createAppContainer} from 'react-navigation'; import {createBrowserApp} from '@react-navigation/web'; import Feed from "../screens/Feed"; import Profile from "../screens/Profile"; import {Platform} from "react-native"; const isWeb = Platform.OS === 'web'; const Home = createStackNavigator( { Profile: Profile, Feed: Feed, }, { navigationOptions: { headerTintColor: '#fff', headerStyle: { backgroundColor: '#000', }, }, } ); const container = isWeb ? createBrowserApp(Home): createAppContainer(Home); export default container;

Try running the app in the browser, Go to feed button click should change the URL to http://localhost:19006/feed.

Also, the app should be running fine on the simulators as well.

In the following videos, I have done the walkthrough of the react-navigation setup on react native web.

Conclusion

We hope this tutorial has helped you in learning how to do navigation in React-native web. It’s not as difficult as you think it. Just go through the entire process once and practically implement it. Also, in case of any queries, you can contact InApps. We would love to help you.

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