What's the correct approach for having a list/detail view with React Native Navigation Bottom Tab? - react-native

Question

I have something like:
const Tab = createBottomTabNavigator<DefaultTabbedParamList>();
const DefaultTabbedNavigation = () => {
return (
<>
<Tab.Navigator initialRouteName='Home' screenOptions={{
unmountOnBlur: true,
}}>
<Tab.Screen name="Home" component={HomeScreen} options={{
...defaultOptions,
tabBarIcon: ({ color, size, focused }) => (
<Icon as={Ionicons} name={`home${focused ? `` : `-outline`}`} size={size} color={color} />
)
}} />
...
</Tab.Navigator>
</>
);
}
When a user clicks to a detail view from Home (or any other tab), I want to load a detail view with the currently selected tab remaining.
What's the correct approach to handle this?
One idea I had was to have a StackNavigator in HomeScreen that includes a Detail screen. But it seems repetitive to do for every screen, no?

Answer 1

You can do something like this :-
<Tab.Navigator initialRouteName='Home' screenOptions={{
unmountOnBlur: true,
}}>
<Tab.Screen name="Home" component={HomeScreen} options={{
...defaultOptions,
tabBarIcon: ({ color, size, focused }) => (
<Icon as={Ionicons} name={`home${focused ? `` : `-outline`}`} size={size} color={color} />
)
}} />
// Something like this.
<Tab.Screen name="Home2" children={({route}) => <route?.name />} ...{otherProperties}/>
...
</Tab.Navigator>
Note:- To use this kind of approch your routeName and componentName should be same.

Answer 2

How about this?
return (
<NavigationContainer>
<Stack.Navigator screenOptions={{ headerShown: false }}>
<Stack.Screen name={"Tabs"} component={Tabs} />
<Stack.Screen name={"Detail"} component={DetailScreen} />
</Stack.Navigator>
</NavigationContainer>
);

Answer 3

Yeah, you'll likely want to define a StackNavigator for each tab. It's a bit repetitive, but that's been a theme of my experience with RN.
You can do something like:
const HomeStackNavigator = () => {
return (
<Stack.Navigator>
<Stack.Screen name="Home" component={HomeScreen} />
<Stack.Screen name="Detail" component={DetailScreen} />
</Stack.Navigator>
);
};
const OtherStackNavigator = () => {
return (
<Stack.Navigator>
<Stack.Screen name="Other" component={OtherScreen} />
<Stack.Screen name="Detail" component={DetailScreen} />
</Stack.Navigator>
);
};
const DefaultTabbedNavigation = () => {
return (
<Tab.Navigator>
<Tab.Screen name="Home" component={HomeStackNavigator} />
<Tab.Screen name="Other" component={OtherStackNavigator} />
</Tab.Navigator>
)
}