Using react-native-side-menu for adding side navigation menus

Side menus are a common UX pattern for displaying options, controls, app settings, navigation, and other secondary information in mobile applications. The react-native-side-menu third-party package provides an excellent, straightforward way to implement side menus in a React Native app. In this recipe, we will be building an app that has a side menu housing buttons that change the background.

Getting ready

Setting up the react-native-side-menu package does not require the command:

 react-native link

So feel free to create this app with Expo or as a pure React Native app. We need to create a new app for this recipe, and for project naming purposes we'll assume...