React Navigation: Navigating outside a component - react-native

Question

I am trying to navigate my app from outside of a component. Specifically, I am using a fetch interceptor and I want to navigate whenever an error response is received.
I followed the example here: https://reactnavigation.org/docs/navigating-without-navigation-prop/
However, my app is still giving me an error saying that either a navigator isn't rendered or the navigator hasn't finished mounting:
Screenshot of app with error message
As far as I can tell, neither of those situations apply. The app is loaded and rendered with a navigator in place before I try to actually navigate
My App.jsx:
// ... imports and so on ...
fetchIntercept.register({
response: (response) => {
if (response.status === 401) {
// Unverified subscription
RootNavigation.reset({ index: 0, routes: [{ name: 'Intercept' }] });
}
return response;
},
});
{ ... }
const InterceptNavigator = createStackNavigator(
{
Application: {
screen: ApplicationScreen,
},
Intercept: {
screen: SubscriptionInterceptScreen,
},
},
{
initialRouteKey: 'Application',
},
);
const App = createAppContainer(InterceptNavigator);
export default () => {
React.useEffect(() => {
RootNavigation.isMountedRef.current = true;
return () => { RootNavigation.isMountedRef.current = false; };
}, []);
return (
<NavigationContainer ref={RootNavigation.navigationRef}>
<App />
</NavigationContainer>
);
};
RootNavigation.js:
import * as React from 'react';
export const isMountedRef = React.createRef();
export const navigationRef = React.createRef();
export function navigate(name, params) {
if (isMountedRef.current && navigationRef.current) {
navigationRef.current.navigate(name, params);
}
}
export function reset(options) {
if (isMountedRef.current && navigationRef.current) {
navigationRef.current.reset(options);
}
}
I also inserted a number of console logs throughout and all of them showed that the app is loaded, that the navigationRef is current, and that the isMountedRef is also current before the app tries to navigate

Answer 1

Try .resetRoot() instead of .reset(). I think .reset() needs a state as an argument.

Answer 2

Found the solution. The issue is that I had a mixture of version 4 and version 5 code (and was referring to mixed documentation).
To fix the issue I removed references to version 5 code and then followed the steps on this page to get the navigator working: https://reactnavigation.org/docs/4.x/navigating-without-navigation-prop/