React Navigation

ELI5 — The Vibe Check

React Navigation handles all the screen-to-screen transitions in your React Native app — stack navigation, tab bars, drawers, the works. It's the GPS of your mobile app, making sure users can get where they're going without getting lost.

Real Talk

The most popular navigation library for React Native, providing stack, tab, drawer, and native navigation patterns. React Navigation handles screen transitions, deep linking, URL integration, and type-safe navigation with TypeScript. It uses a declarative API with composable navigators.

Show Me The Code

import { NavigationContainer } from '@react-navigation/native';
import { createNativeStackNavigator } from '@react-navigation/native-stack';

const Stack = createNativeStackNavigator();

function App() {
  return (
    <NavigationContainer>
      <Stack.Navigator>
        <Stack.Screen name="Home" component={HomeScreen} />
        <Stack.Screen name="Details" component={DetailsScreen} />
      </Stack.Navigator>
    </NavigationContainer>
  );
}

When You'll Hear This

"We use React Navigation with typed routes so navigating to wrong screens is a compile error." / "Nest a tab navigator inside a stack navigator for the typical app layout."