React Native Firebase starter and React Navigation - react-native

Question

I want to use the react native firebase starter template and add react navigation.
I have got the react-native-firebase-starter project up and running and have linked it to firebase. But now when I follow the steps to add react-navigation I come into problems with react-native link react-native-gesture-handler.
I guessed because the project uses cocoa pods and this command adds a line to the Podfile, that I should cd ios and run pod install.
The problem then is that I get an error: [!] React has been deprecated and the project won't build.
Has anyone successfully used this starter project and added react-navigation to it?
Please tell me what I'm doing wrong or what to do to get it sorted.

Answer 1

I figured this out.
You need to add these lines into your app target in the Podfile...
pod 'React', :path => '../node_modules/react-native'
pod 'yoga', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/ReactCommon/yoga'
And then at the very bottom of the Podfile you need to add the following...
post_install do |installer|
installer.pods_project.targets.each do |target|
targets_to_ignore = %w(React yoga)
if targets_to_ignore.include? target.name
target.remove_from_project
end
end
end
This removes React & Yoga from the Pods project, as it is already included in the main project.