React native navigation 5 passing updated component - react-native

Question

I am new to react native and its navigation modules. I have a simple dashboard.js file where I am using tab navigator like this -
<Tabs.Navigator tabBarOptions={{ activeTintColor: '#ff5757' }}>
<Tabs.Screen
options={{
tabBarIcon: ({ color }) =>
<Icon name='star-border' size={30} padding={15} color={color} />,}}
name={'Orders'}
component={Order}
initialParams={{user}}
/>
<Tabs.Screen
component= {AnotherComponent}
/>
As you can see I am passing InitialParams where I have user props. And I can easily get it in Order component by route.params.
However, in my dashboard component I also have a method that runs every 1 minute and updates user props.
I can't get the updated value of user props in Order component. I am stuck with this for 2 days. In the past I have done like this -
<Tabs.Screen
component = {() => <SomeComponent props= {props}/>}
And it worked fine. But with react-navigation 5 its not working any more.
Please help me if anyone knows. plz.
Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

The initial props seems to be a constant also as per the documentation you have to use redux or context api to update the badge counts in the tabs so I think it will be better to take that approach to handle this problem. Came up with a count changing scenario just like yours using context API.
const CountContext = React.createContext(0);
function HomeScreen() {
return (
<View>
<CountContext.Consumer>
{value => <Text>Home! {value}</Text>}
</CountContext.Consumer>
</View>
);
}
const MyTabs = () => {
const [count, setCount] = React.useState(0);
return (
<CountContext.Provider value={count}>
<View style={{ flex: 1 }}>
<Text>{count}</Text>
<Button title="count" onPress={() => setCount(count + 1)} />
<Tab.Navigator>
<Tab.Screen name="Home" component={HomeScreen} options={{ title: 'My home' }} />
<Tab.Screen name="Settings" component={SettingsScreen} options={{ title: 'My home 2' }} />
</Tab.Navigator>
</View>
</CountContext.Provider>
);
};
This way you can skip the navigation params and directly send data to the tab, and this data can be read from other tabs or somewhere down the tree as well.
You can check the full snack here
https://snack.expo.io/#guruparan/5c2b97