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Combining Stack, Tab & Drawer Navigations in React Native With React Navigation 5

Ekunola Ezekiel on June 22, 2020

In this article, we'll be covering the different types of navigations and also how to combine them together in react-native using react-navigation ...

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Gaurav Mahendru • Nov 2 '20

I have made a Tab Navigator for my React Native App and I want to call this tab navigator with a click of a button. Currently, I have a SignUpScreen and SignInScreen and the button I want to call is inside SignInScreen with the props called { navigation } with the function but the button is throwing an error of undefined 'navigation.navigate' object. My Tab Navigator works perfectly fine but I am not able to call it on this Login button, is there something to do with Stack Navigator here? I am calling Tab Navigator to my HomeScreen and this HomeScreen inside the Login Button. Any help will be appreciated.

Ekunola Ezekiel • Nov 2 '20

So I'm guessing the way your navigation is set up is that your Tab navigation is calling the Stack navigation, and the Tab navigation is being used in the App.js entry point to the app right?

Gaurav Mahendru • Nov 2 '20

Actually, Tab Navigation (I am using this inside return function of a HomeScreen) should be called on a button but it’s not working.

For the App.js, right now I have made SignInScreen as my entry point which comes from AppTextInput file and this AppTextInput.js file has a button to call Tab Navigation, but unluckily, I am getting an error of undefined navigation.navigate even though I am using the navigation props with the function.

Ekunola Ezekiel • Nov 2 '20

I think the issue is you need to return a navigation (tab navigation which contains the stack screens) in the app.js file, just like it's shown in this article. You can set the default screen to show up on the first app load.

Gaurav Mahendru • Nov 2 '20

My default screen is SignInScreen and this screen has a button to it. On a click of this, I want to go to Tab Navigation which I created.

It's giving me navigation error even though I am using navigation as a props with the SignInScreen return function. Normally, I have tested my Tab Navigation by straight calling it into App.js. This works but I want this to be called on Button. It's not working for me.

Mirko • Sep 1 '21

Hi, thanks for the great article. My question is, what if I need to have the 2 navigation together? Drawer + bottom tab navigation? Where should I import and put the bottom tab navigator? In App.js? How can I nest them? Thank you in advance

Masoud-94 • Jan 23 '21

Thanks a lot for putting time and effort into writing this.
This article was very helpful, but I have a small issue.

In drawer navigation, when I go forth and back in my screens, the screen freezes.
In the beginning, I search all of my code but didn't find anything,
finally, I came across one example in Reac Navigation Documentation, and I ran it in my Expo and saw similar behaviour.

I was wondering that have you ever experience this? What causes this issue?
Any suggestion will be helpful.

Ekunola Ezekiel • Jan 23 '21

I haven't had that error, unfortunately. Maybe try google that particular error to see if other people have faced that issue.

Monir Ullah • Jun 27

Great article, Ekunola! Your guide on combining Stack, Tab, and Drawer navigation in React Native is super clear and helpful. Thanks for the step-by-step instructions. I got my project working! Just one question: How can I add custom icons to the Tab Navigator items? Thanks!

Seankang(he, him, dude, guy) • Jan 8 '21

How about doing this with classes? For example, if Home was defined as :

Anyone written a sample or template like this?

class Home extends React.Component{
render() {

This is the home screen

}
}

Iván Barba • Nov 12 '20 • Edited

Hey thank you very much for this tutorial, i'm making an app based on this, but the header its being duplicated, i've searched trough youtube and the official documentation but i didn't find anything, any help'll be appreciated 🙏. dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/...

Pyaeh Phyoe Ko Ko • Nov 1 '21

<Tab.Navigator screenOptions={{headerShown: false}}>
    <Stack.Navigator screenOptions={{headerShown: false}}>

ScribbleTons • Jul 27 '21

Thanks for the article. How do I make the tabpress fast enough when switching from one route to another. I'm using expo and it's almost unresponsive when tapped.

I even turned off my debugger and it's still the same.

The JS thread falls to almost -2 to 0.

It's really frustrating.

Lucas Michailian • Oct 2 '20

Hi! Great Article, Can I hide tab bar on nested About ?

Ekunola Ezekiel • Oct 2 '20

Yes, you should be able to hide the tab bar on specific screens by passing tabBarVisible as a prop to the navigation options I think

Niranjan Nagaraja • Jul 6 '23

I have a Drawer with several screens to navigate to.
I have a bottom tab navigator with 5 entries.
Now when I open the drawer and select a screen that is not in Bottom tab navigator, I can navigate to that screen but the Bottom Tab Navigator dissappears.
How do I retain the Bottom Tab when I navigate to a screen from the drawer which is not part of the Bottom Tab?

Deepanshu • Sep 2 '23

i have a major issue if define a screen inside drawer.navigation with Drawer.Screen .....then between those pages i dont get sliding animation when i navigate from one page to another page....it happpens with only those pages which are defined as Drawer.Screen....please help someone

Hamza Shahid • Nov 26 '22

How can we combine all of them, like i am able to call my drawer in my stack navigator but what if i want to add bottom tab navigations too, if we have drawer, tabs and navigations in the same screen like facebook has.

Ahmed Sarhan • Jan 23 '22

when I do the same thing you did here and name the MainStackNavigator, the TabNavigator and the HomeScreen all three Home in their own respective Stacks / Navigators
React Native throws a warning that multiple nested components have the same name, is this a big issue? also I want to toggle my drawer from a button in the bottom tabs is there a way to do so ?

Penny Liu • May 26 '21 • Edited

No tabs appear when you toggle Contact item of Drawer Navigation.

Liran Cohen • Feb 6 '21

Great article and very useful, thanks for taking the time to post it.

Saten Chauhan • Jan 31 '21

I am so thankful to you , made tutorials on all navigation, which is awesome, very useful, I solved my problem

Ekunola Ezekiel • Jan 31 '21

I'm glad you found it helpful!

Yoel • Jan 24 '21 • Edited

The excellent article Thank you,
Is it possible to choose which screen to switch from the drawer menu?
like this

component={ContactStackNavigator,{screen: 'menu"}}

`

Syd • Jan 9 '21

This tutorial is lightyears better than the official React Navigation tutorial on Reacts website.

Ekunola Ezekiel • Jan 11 '21

Thanks

Clay Sanchez • Dec 31 '20

This was very helpful. Thank you!

BashirMohamedAli • Dec 4 '20

thanks

theca • Nov 6 '20

Hi. Thanx for your tutorail. Is it possible to create a clickable button for DrawerNavigation?

Ekunola Ezekiel • Nov 9 '20

Yes, it's possible, you can still the entire drawer however you want to. Take a look at the drawerContent prop for a Drawer navigator

Offordile Chimaobi Victor • Oct 31 '20

Hey! you just saved a soul today. Thanks alot.

lakshan28 • Jul 28 '22

really appreciated

Udemezue John • Oct 4 '21

Thanks bro, I just solved a long term problem reading your tutorials

EshaghiEhsan • Jun 25 '21

hi
thanks for this article
I want About screen be a separate screen and tab navigator is hide
what should I do?

dscg • Dec 4 '20

thank you very much for this tutorial

eliza-silveira • Feb 10 '21

THANK YOU!

khalafalla • Nov 18 '20

Awesome, but that's made the first item in Drawer slider useless

Debdip Mondal • Oct 17 '20

how can i insert icons in tab navigator items

ashishonmobile • Dec 16 '20

If we switch from one stack navigation to another stack navigation via drawer how can we refresh the screen which is available in each stack navigation?

Thanks