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React Native By Example

You're reading from   React Native By Example Native mobile development with React

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786464750
Length 414 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. First Project - Creating a Basic To-Do List App FREE CHAPTER 2. Advanced Functionality and Styling the To-Do List App 3. Our Second Project - The Budgeting App 4. Advanced Functionality with the Expenses App 5. Third Project - The Facebook Client 6. Advanced Facebook App Functionality 7. Redux 8. Deploying Your Applications 9. Additional React Native Components

Navigator


The Navigator component works a bit differently from its native iOS component, but it's still very powerful to work with. One of the changes with using Navigator is that your routes should be explicitly defined. We can do this by setting up an array of routes and rendering a specific scene based on which route we're accessing. Here's a sample:

export default class Tasks extends Component { 
  render () { 
    const routes = [ 
      { title: 'First Component', index: 0 }, 
      { title: 'Second Component', index: 1 } 
    ]; 

Create a routes array, as shown in the preceding code.

You might notice that we are explicitly defining our routes from the beginning, setting up an initial route and then passing in props to each route's component here:

    return ( 
      <Navigator 
        initialRoute={{ index: 0 }} 
        renderScene={ (routes, navigator) => 
        this._renderScene(routes, navigator) } /> 
    ) 
  } 

The route object passed in to _renderScene contains a passProps...

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