6 Navigation
This chapter covers
- Navigation in React Native vs. the web
- Navigating using tabs, stacks, and drawers
- Managing nested navigators
- Passing data and methods between routes
One of the core pieces of functionality in any mobile application is navigation. Before building an application, I recommend that you spend some time strategizing how you want the app to handle navigation and routing. This chapter covers the three main types of navigation typical to mobile applications: tab-based, stack-based, and drawer-based navigation.
Tab-based navigation typically has tabs either at the top or bottom of the screen; pressing a tab takes you to the screen that correlates with the tab. Many popular apps like Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook ...
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