Programmatically Navigate with React Router v5

In this video you’ll learn the two correct approaches for programmatically navigate in React Router v5.

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How native is React Native? | React Native vs Native App Development

If you are undertaking a mobile app development for your start-up or enterprise, you are likely wondering whether to use React Native. As a popular development framework, React Native helps you to develop near-native mobile apps. However, you are probably also wondering how close you can get to a native app by using React Native. How native is React Native?

In the article, we discuss the similarities between native mobile development and development using React Native. We also touch upon where they differ and how to bridge the gaps. Read on.

A brief introduction to React Native

Let’s briefly set the context first. We will briefly touch upon what React Native is and how it differs from earlier hybrid frameworks.

React Native is a popular JavaScript framework that Facebook has created. You can use this open-source framework to code natively rendering Android and iOS mobile apps. You can use it to develop web apps too.

Facebook has developed React Native based on React, its JavaScript library. The first release of React Native came in March 2015. At the time of writing this article, the latest stable release of React Native is 0.62.0, and it was released in March 2020.

Although relatively new, React Native has acquired a high degree of popularity. The “Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2019” report identifies it as the 8th most loved framework. Facebook, Walmart, and Bloomberg are some of the top companies that use React Native.

The popularity of React Native comes from its advantages. Some of its advantages are as follows:

• Performance: It delivers optimal performance.
• Cross-platform development: You can develop both Android and iOS apps with it. The reuse of code expedites development and reduces costs.
• UI design: React Native enables you to design simple and responsive UI for your mobile app.
• 3rd party plugins: This framework supports 3rd party plugins.
• Developer community: A vibrant community of developers support React Native.

Why React Native is fundamentally different from earlier hybrid frameworks

Are you wondering whether React Native is just another of those hybrid frameworks like Ionic or Cordova? It’s not! React Native is fundamentally different from these earlier hybrid frameworks.

React Native is very close to native. Consider the following aspects as described on the React Native website:

• Access to many native platforms features: The primitives of React Native render to native platform UI. This means that your React Native app will use many native platform APIs as native apps would do.
• Near-native user experience: React Native provides several native components, and these are platform agnostic.
• The ease of accessing native APIs: React Native uses a declarative UI paradigm. This enables React Native to interact easily with native platform APIs since React Native wraps existing native code.

Due to these factors, React Native offers many more advantages compared to those earlier hybrid frameworks. We now review them.

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Build a simple React Native Pokemon app with React-Navigation

As we start learning new technologies we want to start building something or work on a simple project to get a better understanding of the technology. So, let’s build this simple app.
For this app, we will be using PokeApi to get our pokemon data, and also we will be using Hooks. I am using pokemondb for pokemon sprites. It’s just a personal preference you can use whatever you want.

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Bottom Tab View inside Navigation Drawer with React Navigation V5

Bottom Tab View + Navigation Drawer

This is an example of Bottom Tab View inside Navigation Drawer / Sidebar with React Navigation in React Native. We will use react-navigation to make a navigation drawer and Tab in this example. I hope you have already seen our post on React Native Navigation Drawer because in this post we are just extending the last post to show the Bottom Tab View inside the Navigation Drawer.

In this example, we have a navigation drawer with 3 screens in the navigation menu and a Bottom Tab on the first screen of the Navigation Drawer. When we open Screen1 the Bottom Tab will be visible and on the other options, this Bottom Tab will be invisible.

To Create a Drawer Navigator

<NavigationContainer>
  <Drawer.Navigator
    drawerContentOptions={{
      activeTintColor: '#e91e63',
      itemStyle: { marginVertical: 5 },
    }}>
    <Drawer.Screen
      name="HomeScreenStack"
      options={{ drawerLabel: 'Home Screen Option' }}
      component={HomeScreenStack} />
    <Drawer.Screen
      name="SettingScreenStack"
      options={{ drawerLabel: 'Setting Screen Option' }}
      component={SettingScreenStack} />
  </Drawer.Navigator>
</NavigationContainer>

To Create Bottom Tab Navigator

<Tab.Navigator
  initialRouteName="HomeScreen"
  tabBarOptions={{
    activeTintColor: 'tomato',
    inactiveTintColor: 'gray',
    style: {
      backgroundColor: '#e0e0e0',
    },
    labelStyle: {
      textAlign: 'center',
      fontSize: 16
    },
  }}>
  <Tab.Screen
    name="HomeScreen"
    component={HomeScreen}
    options={{
      tabBarLabel: 'Home Screen',
      // tabBarIcon: ({ color, size }) => (
      //   <MaterialCommunityIcons name="home" color={color} size={size} />
      // ),
    }}  />
  <Tab.Screen
    name="ExploreScreen"
    component={ExploreScreen}
    options={{
      tabBarLabel: 'Explore Screen',
      // tabBarIcon: ({ color, size }) => (
      //   <MaterialCommunityIcons name="settings" color={color} size={size} />
      // ),
    }} />
</Tab.Navigator>

In this example, we will make a Tab Navigator inside a Drawer Navigator so let’s get started.

To Make a React Native App

Getting started with React Native will help you to know more about the way you can make a React Native project. We are going to use react-native init to make our React Native App. Assuming that you have node installed, you can use npm to install the react-native-cli command line utility. Open the terminal and go to the workspace and run

npm install -g react-native-cli

Run the following commands to create a new React Native project

react-native init ProjectName

If you want to start a new project with a specific React Native version, you can use the --version argument:

react-native init ProjectName --version X.XX.X

react-native init ProjectName --version react-native@next

This will make a project structure with an index file named App.js in your project directory.

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How to Setup React Router v5 using React Hooks

React Router library makes the navigation experience of the client in your web page application more joyful, but how?!

React Router, indeed, prevent the page from being refreshed. Thus the blank page resulted from a refreshed page is not displayed while the user is navigating and routing through your web. This tool enables you to manipulate your web application routes through provided routing components and dynamic routing while the app is rendering.

How to start:
You need a React web app, to get started. If you don’t have, install create-react-app and launch a new project using it. Then you need to install react-router-dom, applying either npm or yarn.

npm install --save react-router-dom
yarn add react-router-dom

Now all the required components are installed. We are enabled to add any component to the App.js inside the router to build our unique web page. All these elements are the router children to which we specify their path. For instance, I add the components of Homepage, About, and Products inside the router where one can navigate through them. Also, React Router allows us to redirect our clients by a simple click on a button. To this purpose, import the Link to your component, define an onclick function for the button and redirect it to your intended path.

These are not all. There are other features in React Router. If you want to know how to install and benefit from it, join me in this YouTube video to decode the solution. I create the above-mentioned app and its components and explain all the features that we can use to improve it:

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Driving towards a universal navigation strategy in React

When I joined STRV, they had a specific request ready for me: Build a frontend app for iOS, Android, and Web, with shared component and business logic amongst all the platforms.
Since I’m a frontend developer who loves exploring new territory, I jumped at the opportunity.
I ended up facing a variety of challenges — like a lack of real-world-scenarios content related to React Native Web, an unexpected lack of documentation on popular projects, and struggling to build some platform-specific modules.
This article focuses on a very important part of this journey: Building a navigation solution.

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