Providing an action to navigate is never dispatched, while trying to replace a screen

[janhesters]

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Current Behavior

• What code are you running and what is happening?

I have a Stack with three screens (Root, First and Second). I'm trying to follow the docs to navigate to a screen while simultaneously dispatching a navigation action.

The goal is to navigate from the root screen to the first screen. After wards navigate from the First screen to the Second screen, but have the back button point to the HomeScreen again (as if the First screen never was in the stack in the first place).

Using the action parameter I'm trying to dispatch a stack action to reset the state to the desired state while the animation is playing.

The current behaviour is dependent on the way I attempt this. In the demo below you can read, see and try out all my attempts (on FirstScreen). It seems like the StackAction provided is never dispatched.

Expected Behavior

• What do you expect should be happening?

What should be happening is the animation should play out and you should be able to directly go back from the SecondScreen to the HomeScreen, without crossing the FirstScreen.
- Include a screenshot if it makes sense.

How to reproduce

See my attempts at demo and corresponding bugs in the demo.

https://snack.expo.io/SklozIBJE

If this isn't a bug and I'm just not capable of understanding the API could you kindly give a example how one would achieve this? (It's entirely possible that this is not a bug, but I'm just bad at understanding the docs).

Your Environment

software	version
react-navigation	2.18 and above
react-native	0.5.7.1
node	v9.4.0
npm or yarn	6.4.1

[brentvatne]

you can use getStateForAction to implement a way to control exactly what the state is reset to. imo this is actually how reset should work, rather than it dispatching actions it should just say set the state to this. see FirstScreen, SecondScreen, and Navigation in https://snack.expo.io/@notbrent/awkward-peach for an example. i updated this to 3.x and did not test in 2.x because i don't take issues for 2.x anymore.

[brentvatne]

also just wanted to mention that in the example 2 the replace action will attempt to replace SecondScreen with SecondScreen, so that's why you don't see anything happen

[janhesters]

@brentvatne Thank you for your help!

[brentvatne]

hmm it seems like my snack doesn't show the latest change i made to it :( if you need help figuring it out i can rewrite it, sorry

[brentvatne]

went ahead and rewrote it, should be fine now at https://snack.expo.io/@notbrent/reset-state

[janhesters]

@brentvatne Wow, thank you. This helps me a lot!😊