react-community/react-navigation
React Navigation
React Navigation is a cross-platform routing framework and navigation library designed to synchronize routing logic and navigation flows across Android, iOS, and web platforms. It functions as a mobile app router that coordinates transitions between different application views while maintaining a consistent navigation history.
The project provides a system for managing screens and navigation state in React Native applications. It enables the definition of paths and the coordination of movement between views to maintain an organized flow throughout the user experience.
The framework covers broad capability areas including mobile app routing, cross-platform UI navigation, and navigation state management to track the history of views.
Features
- Navigation & Routing - Coordinates movement between screens and tracks the current navigation state across all available views in mobile apps.
- App Routing and Navigation - Provides a framework for managing complex navigation flows, deep links, and screen transitions in mobile applications.
- React Native Navigation - Provides a comprehensive navigation solution specifically designed for React Native mobile applications.
- Navigation State Management - Handles the navigation stack and history to ensure users can move back and forth between views seamlessly.
- Mobile App Routers - Coordinates transitions between different application views while maintaining a consistent navigation history.
- Navigation State Trees - Tracks the current active screen and navigation history using a nested object tree for predictable state transitions.
- Cross-Platform UI Frameworks - Enables the development of consistent routing and screen transitions across multiple operating systems and web browsers.
- Navigation Routing - Provides systems for defining and managing the navigation paths that route users between different application views.
- Compositional Hierarchies - Implements a hierarchical navigator pattern where independent controllers are nested to manage complex internal routing logic.
- Render-Time State Hooks - Utilizes React hooks to synchronize the internal navigation state with the UI for automatic re-rendering.
- Route Configuration Schemas - Employs structured configuration objects to define navigation paths and parameters, ensuring type-safe transitions between screens.
- Cross-Platform UI Abstractions - Provides a framework that maps high-level navigation routes to native platform widgets across iOS, Android, and web.
- Cross-Platform Frameworks - Acts as a framework for building a single codebase that synchronizes navigation flows across Android, iOS, and web.
- Navigation - Standard library for cross-platform navigation and routing.
