I'm trying to used react-navigation but I can not get it to work when I move each screens' components into multiple files. I always get this error: "The component for route 'Home' must be a React component". This error doesn't happen if I move all of the code into one file, so I'm not sure what the difference is.
Here is my App.js:
import React from 'react';
import { StackNavigator } from 'react-navigation';
import { AppRegistry, StyleSheet, Text, View, TouchableHighlight } from 'react-native';
import { HomeScreen } from './screens/HomeScreen';
import { JoinScreen from './screens/JoinScreen';
import { HostScreen } from './screens/HostScreen';
const Root = StackNavigator(
{
Home: {
screen: HomeScreen,
},
Details: {
screen: JoinScreen,
}
},
{
initialRouteName: 'Home',
headerMode: 'none',
}
);
export default class App extends React.Component {
render() {
return (
<Root />
)
}
}
And here is my .screens/HomeScreen.js
import React from 'react';
import { StyleSheet, Text, View } from 'react-native';
export default class HomeScreen extends React.Component {
render() {
const { navigate } = this.props.navigation;
return (
<View style={styles.container}>
<Text style={styles.title}>Hello World</Text>
</View>
);
}
}
const styles = StyleSheet.create({
container: {
flex: 1,
backgroundColor: '#fff',
alignItems: 'center',
justifyContent: 'space-around',
}
});
I think that if you change this line:
import { HomeScreen } from './screens/HomeScreen';
to:
import HomeScreen from './screens/HomeScreen';
(i.e. removing the braces around HomeScreen
) then it will work. Because you used export default
in the HomeScreen
component's source file, you don't need the destructuring on the import
. This is attempting to access a variable called HomeScreen
on the component, which is resolving to undefined
and causes the error you saw.
Alternatively, you can remove the default
from export default
and keep the import
the same. I personally prefer removing the braces as the code looks cleaner.
There's also a missing closing brace on this line:
import { JoinScreen from './screens/JoinScreen';
But I assumed that was a typo ;)
I think that react is having a problem figuring out what to import
Since you're exporting one thing by default
You should replace
import { HomeScreen } from './screens/HomeScreen';
with
import HomeScreen from './screens/HomeScreen';
Try with:
Home: {
screen: () => <HomeScreen/>,
},
It also happens if you do not export your class.
export default class HomeScreen extends React.Component {
render() {
return (
<View style={{ flex: 1, alignItems: 'center', justifyContent: 'center' }}>
<Text>Home Screen</Text>
<Button
title="Go to Details"
onPress={() => this.props.navigation.navigate('Details')}
/>
</View>
);
}
}
Add this to your js file at the bottom add this Line
export default MainActivity;
import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { createStackNavigator } from 'react-navigation-stack';
class MainActivity extends Component{
...
}
export default MainActivity;
Keep the braces intact for your external screen files imports. Just do the following and it should run on both Android and iOS simulators regardless
// HomeScreen.js
... all imports
export class HomeScreen extends React.Component {
...
This fixed the issue for me in both platforms.