React-native-windows: Support for react-native-navigation by Wix

[MakhouT]

The 2 most popular navigation libraries for react-native are react-navigation and react-native-navigation.
As react-navigation is done on JS side, I am assuming this will be working out of the box.
However react-native-navigation is built natively, for obvious performance reasons. Please add support for this library so we can also use native navigation with UWP.

[harinikmsft]

Thanks for raising this. We plan to address these as part of Milestone 3 coming up.

[chrisglein]

@harinikmsft Given our shift in definitions is this on the short list for M3 or is M4 okay?

[Yajan]

I don't think react navigation work on react native windows as mentioned in this issue. Please add support to any navigation library

https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows/issues/2033

[MakhouT]

@harinikmsft Any update on this? Can we get some more info please?

[DonovanDeSmedt]

@harinikmsft We also need to have React Native Navigation by Wix supported on Windows. Any ETA on this topic?

[erksch]

Hmm, am I wrong or does that mean there is currently no navigation solution for react-native-windows?

[MakhouT]

@erksch I also couldn't find any way to do navigation in rnw currently...

[stmoy]

@MakhouT @erksch @DonovanDeSmedt - thank you for your patience, sorry for the radio silence. We're tracking adding Windows support to a bunch of modules. The overall status is here: https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows/projects/23

Since we have so many, we're actively prioritizing and implementing. Right now, this module is in our backlog and not on our immediate roadmap.

That said, we recognize the need for a navigation module and wix/react-native-navigation has come up both internally and externally (#3884) so we're reassessing if this module needs to be reprioritized. I'm following up internally - I'll report back with any updates.

[SanderNouwynck]

@stmoy
Since this module is currently parked on backlog, and not immediate roadmap:
what do you advise devs to use as for navigation in rnw?

[MakhouT]

@harinikmsft I see the label 'must-have' has been removed, does this mean this won't be supported anymore?
I think the roadmap isn't really clear of what is going to be supported at the moment...
Are we going for react-native-navigation by Wix? Or are we going for react-navigation?
Also as an other user mentioned, what is currently advised to use navigation in react-native-windows vnext.

[stmoy]

Hi all - I just posted a follow up on the react-navigation issue https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows/issues/3884#issuecomment-656421845, but following up here as well: we're interested in supporting both react-navigation and react-native-navigation, but we're starting with react-navigation first.