React Navigation Add-ons

NOTE: This is an experiment. If you want to use this in your app, please copy the files instead of using the repo directly. The API can change anytime or the repo might be deleted.

Useful addons for React Navigation.

Usage

You'd need to wrap the navigators with our enhance function. For example, to wrap StackNavigator:

import { StackNavigator } from 'react-navigation';
import { enhance } from 'react-navigation-addons';

export default Stacks = enhance(StackNavigator)({
  Home: { screen: HomeScreen },
  Settings: { screen: SettingsScreen },
});

API

navigation.setOptions

Navigation options are usually tightly coupled to your component. This method allows you to configure and update the navigation options from your component rather than using the static property and params, which means you can use your component's props and state, as well as any instance methods.

Example:

class HomeScreen extends Component {
  componentWillMount() {
    this.props.navigation.setOptions({
      headerTitle: this.props.navigation.state.params.user,
      headerTintColor: this.props.theme.tintColor,
      headerLeft: (
        <TouchableOpacity onPress={this._handleSave}>
          <Text>Save</Text>
        </TouchableOpacity>
      )
    });
  }

  componentWillReceiveProps(nextProps) {
    this.props.navigation.setOptions({
      headerTitle: nextProps.navigation.state.params.user,
      headerTintColor: nextProps.theme.tintColor,
    });
  }

  _handleSave = () => {
    ...
  };

  render() {
    ...
  }
}

Calling setOptions with an plain object does a merge with previous options. You don't have to pass the full configuration object again.

navigation.addListener

Sometimes you want to do something when the screen comes into focus, for example fetch some data, and cancel the operation when screen goes out of focus. This method allows you to listen to events like focus and blur.

Example:

class HomeScreen extends Component {
  componentDidMount() {
    this.props.navigation.addListener('focus', this._fetchData);
    this.props.navigation.addListener('blur', this._cancelFetch);
  }

  componentWillUnmount() {
    this.props.navigation.removeListener('focus', this._fetchData);
    this.props.navigation.removeListener('blur', this._cancelFetch);
  }

  _fetchData = () => {
    ...
  };

  _cancelFetch = () => {
    ...
  };

  render() {
    ...
  }
}

In addition to focus and blur, this also allows you to listen to a change event which fires whenever the navigation state changes. The listener receives the state as the argument.

Example:

class HomeScreen extends Component {
  componentDidMount() {
    this.props.navigation.addListener('change', this._handleStateChange);
  }

  componentWillUnmount() {
    this.props.navigation.removeListener('change', this._handleStateChange);
  }

  _handleStateChange = state => {
    ...
  };

  render() {
    ...
  }
}

navigation.getParent

Many times you need a reference to the parent navigation prop if you want to dispatch an action on the parent navigator. This method returns a reference to the navigation prop of the parent navigator.

Example:

class SettingsScreen extends Component {
  _popAllTabs = () => {
    const parent = this.props.navigation.getParent();

    if (parent) {
      parent.goBack(null);
    }
  };

  render() {
    ...
  }
}

If there's no parent navigator, this method will return undefined.