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by brentvatne
2929 days ago
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re: react-navigation, I am one of the two primary maintainers of this project and I started working on it in January of this year because it was in a pretty rough state. I think it has come a long way in that time even though there is still plenty to do. I would love to hear what simple things have taken hours for you when using it, feel free to reach out on Twitter in DM @notbrent or email brent at expo dot io. Also, the roadmap for our next major version is here: https://github.com/react-navigation/react-navigation/issues/.... |
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I have also seen people post suggestions on how to use the library that are just flat out wrong. Suggesting using props that don't exist (!!!???), and I've seen at least three recommendations of how to do lazy loading. Now that the docs are better these issues are going to go away, but unfortunately old blog posts (and github threads) live on.
Speaking of the documentation, it has gotten 10x better over the last few months. It has a ways to go, and pictures would be super nice. The React Native community likes to post Expo apps to showcase APIs instead of having super robust examples in the docs, I get why (and sample apps can be super useful!), but sometimes a "this option results in this" doc is super useful.
When I was first learning the library, some of the documentations labeled navigationOptions, some of them didn't and just passed it in positionally. It looks like the docs have been cleaned up, hopefully other examples around the web do the same thing. When I was trying to learn the API, this was very confusing, but I think if I had to learn it from scratch today, it would be a lot easier.
(If Steven Girder hasn't updated his examples, ask him to! His RN course is insanely popular and introduces a lot of people to React-Navigation)
So I guess saying it is bad isn't correct, but up until very recently, doing anything with the library was an effort in frustration just because of the documentation.
I'm still going to DM you some questions about the drawer though! :) (Update: answered, I was doing some things wrong, and Drawer is being rewritten to make more sense!)