Introduction

React Navigation

React Navigation is the most widely used navigation library for React Native. It provides a set of navigators — Stack, Tab, and Drawer — that handle screen transitions, gestures, and animations while matching the native behavior your users expect on iOS and Android.

This course covers React Navigation v7, the latest major version. v7 improves TypeScript support, simplifies the API, and uses @react-navigation/native-stack as the recommended stack navigator — which delegates to native platform APIs (UINavigationController on iOS, Fragment on Android) for better performance and smaller memory footprint.

What You'll Build

By the end of this course you'll be able to build any navigation structure a production React Native app needs. We'll work through hands-on examples for every navigator type, combine them together, and apply the patterns you see in real apps — authentication flows, modals, deep linking, and more.

Course Structure

The course is organized into four parts:

Getting Started — project setup with Expo and installing React Navigation dependencies
Navigator Types — Stack, Tab, and Drawer navigators with customization for each
Combining & Patterns — nesting navigators, authentication flows, modals, and deep linking
Capstone — building a complete multi-navigator app that ties everything together

Each lesson includes working code examples you can run directly in an Expo project.

What You'll Learn

Set up React Navigation v7 in an Expo project
Build navigation flows with Stack, Tab, and Drawer navigators
Customize headers, tab bars, and drawer content
Combine multiple navigator types into a single app
Implement authentication flows with conditional screens
Present screens as modals
Configure deep linking to navigate from URLs into specific screens
Type your navigation with TypeScript for safety and autocompletion

Prerequisites

You should be comfortable with JavaScript, React basics (components, state, props), and have some exposure to React Native. You don't need any prior experience with navigation libraries — this course starts from scratch.