Support <react-native-screens>

[robertev]

Support react-native-screens on RNW vNext

Basic Info

• Module Repo URL: https://github.com/kmagiera/react-native-screens
• Target version: ^2.0.0-alpha.3
• Issue exists on module repo (if so, link): null is not an object ( evaluating 'RNGestureHandlerModule.default.Direction') software-mansion/react-native-gesture-handler#676

Overview of Required Functionality

kmagiera
Native navigation primitives for React Native app.
PureJS - no

Again, a dependency of React Native Navigation

[creambyemute]

Temporary solution would be to just not enableScreens() on Windows. I made a App.windows.tsx removing the rn-gh import and the react-native-screens import/enabling.

[chiaramooney]

Partial implementation now merged into react-native-screens repo. Still some work to be done here including missing animations when doing screen transitioning, and native navigation stack support. There was also a bug reported on the PR: "It looks like you're unable to navigate back to a previously rendered screen. For example, calling navigator.navigate("Home") after navigating to Notifications renders a completely blank screen, as does calling navigator.goBack()." that should be investigated.

[chrisglein]

We have some part of screens, so that's good. We have two scenarios to check in on before closing this issue:

• @robertev needs above are met (with native navigation)
• react-navigation no longer experiences perf issues with pages on the backstack not being discarded

@stmoy FYI

[chiaramooney]

Most recent npm publish on react-native-screens contains Windows support. Just tried to add the module to react-native-gallery and the module fails to build successfully. Need to add an additional work item to this task of fixing up the implementation that was already merged.

[chiaramooney]

Module now builds successfully on Windows. Make note to add to the list of functionality that still needs to be added to the module: Support for detaching inactive screens.

[chrisglein]

Partial implementation exists. Closing this module request. Not that this module shouldn't receive a more complete Windows implementation, but it makes more sense to track gaps on the module's repo rather this repo.