Example of React Native Navigation Drawer with Latest Navigation V. 4+

by Snehal Agrawal

This is an Example of React Native Navigation Drawer for Android and IOS. We will use react-navigation to make a navigation drawer in this example. React Native Navigation Drawer is a very popular component in app development. It provides you to manage the number of app options in a very easy manner. A user can navigate from one screen to another screen very easily by just pulling out the drawer. Here is an example of a navigation drawer.

Make React Native Navigation Drawer Using

const DrawerNavigatorExample = createDrawerNavigator({
  //Drawer Optons and indexing
  Screen1: { //Title
    screen: FirstActivity_StackNavigator,
    navigationOptions: {
      drawerLabel: "Demo Screen 1"
    }
  },
  Screen2: {//Title
    screen: Screen2_StackNavigator,
    navigationOptions: {
      drawerLabel: "Demo Screen 2"
    }
  },
  Screen3: {//Title
    screen: Screen3_StackNavigator,
    navigationOptions: {
      drawerLabel: "Demo Screen 3"
    }
  },
});
export default createAppContainer(DrawerNavigatorExample);

const DrawerNavigatorExample = createDrawerNavigator({

//Drawer Optons and indexing

Screen1: { //Title

screen: FirstActivity_StackNavigator,

navigationOptions: {

drawerLabel: "Demo Screen 1"

}

Screen2: {//Title

screen: Screen2_StackNavigator,

navigationOptions: {

drawerLabel: "Demo Screen 2"

}

Screen3: {//Title

screen: Screen3_StackNavigator,

navigationOptions: {

drawerLabel: "Demo Screen 3"

}

});

export default createAppContainer(DrawerNavigatorExample);

In this example, we will make a navigation drawer with Three screens. So let’s get started.

This example is updated for the React Navigation 4.0+. For more about React Navigation 4 please have a look at Using React Navigation 4.0 in React Native apps.

To Make a React Native App

Getting started with React Native will help you to know more about the way you can make a React Native project. We are going to use react-native init to make our React Native App. Assuming that you have node installed, you can use npm to install the react-native-cli command line utility. Open the terminal and go to the workspace and run

npm install -g react-native-cli

Run the following commands to create a new React Native project

react-native init ProjectName

If you want to start a new project with a specific React Native version, you can use the --version argument:

react-native init ProjectName --version X.XX.X

react-native init ProjectName --version react-native@next

This will make a project structure with an index file named App.js in your project directory.

Installation of Dependencies

To install the dependencies open the terminal and jump into your project

cd ProjectName

1	cd ProjectName

1. Install react-navigation dependency to import createAppContainer

npm install react-navigation --save

1	npm install react-navigation --save

2. Install react-native-gesture-handler dependency to support gesture navigation

npm install react-native-gesture-handler --save

1	npm install react-native-gesture-handler --save

3. Install react-navigation-drawer to import createDrawerNavigator

npm install react-navigation-drawer --save

1	npm install react-navigation-drawer --save

4. Install react-native-reanimated for the drawer animation (Used internally by react-navigation-drawer)

npm install react-native-reanimated --save

1	npm install react-native-reanimated --save

These steps are enough for the drawer navigation but in this example we are also using createStackNavigator to switch screeens, so please follow the next step also

5. Install react-navigation-stack to import createStackNavigator

npm install react-navigation-stack --save

1	npm install react-navigation-stack --save

These commands will copy all the dependencies into your node_module directory.

CocoaPods Installation

After the updation of React Native 0.60, they have introduced autolinking so we do not require to link the libraries but need to install pods.

In this example we need to install the pods for react-native-gesture-handler and react-native-reanimated.

Please use the following command to install CocoaPods

cd ios && pod install && cd ..

1	cd ios && pod install && cd ..

Project Structure

To start with this Example you need to create a directory named pages in your project and create three files Screen1.js, Screen2.js, and Screen3.js in it.

To have the drawer Icon in Action Bar you have to make an image directory in your project and have to copy any drawer image with name drawer.png (For this example. You can change if you want but you need to change the file name in code too).

Here is the drawer.png if you want to download.

Now Open App.js in any code editor and replace the code with the following code.

App.js

//This is an example code for NavigationDrawer//
import React, { Component } from 'react';
//import react in our code.
import { View, Image, TouchableOpacity } from 'react-native';
// import all basic components

//For React Navigation 3+
//import {
//  createStackNavigator,
//  createDrawerNavigator,
//  createAppContainer,
//} from 'react-navigation';

//For React Navigation 4+
import {createAppContainer} from 'react-navigation';
import {createDrawerNavigator} from 'react-navigation-drawer';
import {createStackNavigator} from 'react-navigation-stack';
import Screen1 from './pages/Screen1';
import Screen2 from './pages/Screen2';
import Screen3 from './pages/Screen3';

class NavigationDrawerStructure extends Component {
  //Structure for the navigatin Drawer
  toggleDrawer = () => {
    //Props to open/close the drawer
    this.props.navigationProps.toggleDrawer();
  };
  render() {
    return (
      <View style={{ flexDirection: 'row' }}>
        <TouchableOpacity onPress={this.toggleDrawer.bind(this)}>
          {/*Donute Button Image */}
          <Image
            source={require('./image/drawer.png')}
            style={{ width: 25, height: 25, marginLeft: 5 }}
          />
        </TouchableOpacity>
      </View>
    );
  }
}

const FirstActivity_StackNavigator = createStackNavigator({
  //All the screen from the Screen1 will be indexed here
  First: {
    screen: Screen1,
    navigationOptions: ({ navigation }) => ({
      title: 'Demo Screen 1',
      headerLeft: <NavigationDrawerStructure navigationProps={navigation} />,
      headerStyle: {
        backgroundColor: '#FF9800',
      },
      headerTintColor: '#fff',
    }),
  },
});

const Screen2_StackNavigator = createStackNavigator({
  //All the screen from the Screen2 will be indexed here
  Second: {
    screen: Screen2,
    navigationOptions: ({ navigation }) => ({
      title: 'Demo Screen 2',
      headerLeft: <NavigationDrawerStructure navigationProps={navigation} />,
      headerStyle: {
        backgroundColor: '#FF9800',
      },
      headerTintColor: '#fff',
    }),
  },
});

const Screen3_StackNavigator = createStackNavigator({
  //All the screen from the Screen3 will be indexed here
  Third: {
    screen: Screen3,
    navigationOptions: ({ navigation }) => ({
      title: 'Demo Screen 3',
      headerLeft: <NavigationDrawerStructure navigationProps={navigation} />,
      headerStyle: {
        backgroundColor: '#FF9800',
      },
      headerTintColor: '#fff',
    }),
  },
});

const DrawerNavigatorExample = createDrawerNavigator({
  //Drawer Optons and indexing
  Screen1: {
    //Title
    screen: FirstActivity_StackNavigator,
    navigationOptions: {
      drawerLabel: 'Demo Screen 1',
    },
  },
  Screen2: {
    //Title
    screen: Screen2_StackNavigator,
    navigationOptions: {
      drawerLabel: 'Demo Screen 2',
    },
  },
  Screen3: {
    //Title
    screen: Screen3_StackNavigator,
    navigationOptions: {
      drawerLabel: 'Demo Screen 3',
    },
  },
});

export default createAppContainer(DrawerNavigatorExample);

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//This is an example code for NavigationDrawer//

import React, { Component } from 'react';

//import react in our code.

import { View, Image, TouchableOpacity } from 'react-native';

// import all basic components

//For React Navigation 3+

//import {

// createStackNavigator,

// createDrawerNavigator,

// createAppContainer,

//} from 'react-navigation';

//For React Navigation 4+

import {createAppContainer} from 'react-navigation';

import {createDrawerNavigator} from 'react-navigation-drawer';

import {createStackNavigator} from 'react-navigation-stack';

import Screen1 from './pages/Screen1';

import Screen2 from './pages/Screen2';

import Screen3 from './pages/Screen3';

class NavigationDrawerStructure extends Component {

//Structure for the navigatin Drawer

toggleDrawer = () => {

//Props to open/close the drawer

this.props.navigationProps.toggleDrawer();

};

render() {

return (

{/*Donute Button Image */}

<Image

source={require('./image/drawer.png')}

style={{ width: 25, height: 25, marginLeft: 5 }}

</TouchableOpacity>

</View>

);

}

const FirstActivity_StackNavigator = createStackNavigator({

//All the screen from the Screen1 will be indexed here

First: {

screen: Screen1,

navigationOptions: ({ navigation }) => ({

title: 'Demo Screen 1',

headerLeft: <NavigationDrawerStructure navigationProps={navigation} />,

headerStyle: {

backgroundColor: '#FF9800',

headerTintColor: '#fff',

}),

});

const Screen2_StackNavigator = createStackNavigator({

//All the screen from the Screen2 will be indexed here

Second: {

screen: Screen2,

navigationOptions: ({ navigation }) => ({

title: 'Demo Screen 2',

headerLeft: <NavigationDrawerStructure navigationProps={navigation} />,

headerStyle: {

backgroundColor: '#FF9800',

headerTintColor: '#fff',

}),

});

const Screen3_StackNavigator = createStackNavigator({

//All the screen from the Screen3 will be indexed here

Third: {

screen: Screen3,

navigationOptions: ({ navigation }) => ({

title: 'Demo Screen 3',

headerLeft: <NavigationDrawerStructure navigationProps={navigation} />,

headerStyle: {

backgroundColor: '#FF9800',

headerTintColor: '#fff',

}),

});

const DrawerNavigatorExample = createDrawerNavigator({

//Drawer Optons and indexing

Screen1: {

//Title

screen: FirstActivity_StackNavigator,

navigationOptions: {

drawerLabel: 'Demo Screen 1',

Screen2: {

//Title

screen: Screen2_StackNavigator,

navigationOptions: {

drawerLabel: 'Demo Screen 2',

Screen3: {

//Title

screen: Screen3_StackNavigator,

navigationOptions: {

drawerLabel: 'Demo Screen 3',

});

export default createAppContainer(DrawerNavigatorExample);

Open pages/Screen1.js in any code editor and the Replace the code with the following code.

Screen1.js

//This is an example code for NavigationDrawer//
import React, { Component } from 'react';
//import react in our code.
import { StyleSheet, View, Text } from 'react-native';
// import all basic components

export default class Screen1 extends Component {
  //Screen1 Component
  render() {
    return (
      <View style={styles.MainContainer}>
        <Text style={{ fontSize: 23 }}> Screen 1 </Text>
      </View>
    );
  }
}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  MainContainer: {
    flex: 1,
    paddingTop: 20,
    alignItems: 'center',
    marginTop: 50,
    justifyContent: 'center',
  },
});

//This is an example code for NavigationDrawer//

import React, { Component } from 'react';

//import react in our code.

import { StyleSheet, View, Text } from 'react-native';

// import all basic components

export default class Screen1 extends Component {

//Screen1 Component

render() {

return (

<Text style={{ fontSize: 23 }}> Screen 1 </Text>

</View>

);

}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({

MainContainer: {

flex: 1,

paddingTop: 20,

alignItems: 'center',

marginTop: 50,

justifyContent: 'center',

});

Open pages/Screen2.js in any code editor and the Replace the code with the following code.

Screen2.js

//This is an example code for NavigationDrawer//
import React, { Component } from 'react';
//import react in our code.
import { StyleSheet, View, Text } from 'react-native';
// import all basic components

export default class Screen2 extends Component {
  //Screen2 Component
  render() {
    return (
      <View style={styles.MainContainer}>
        <Text style={{ fontSize: 23 }}> Screen 2 </Text>
      </View>
    );
  }
}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  MainContainer: {
    flex: 1,
    paddingTop: 20,
    alignItems: 'center',
    marginTop: 50,
    justifyContent: 'center',
  },
});

//This is an example code for NavigationDrawer//

import React, { Component } from 'react';

//import react in our code.

import { StyleSheet, View, Text } from 'react-native';

// import all basic components

export default class Screen2 extends Component {

//Screen2 Component

render() {

return (

<Text style={{ fontSize: 23 }}> Screen 2 </Text>

</View>

);

}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({

MainContainer: {

flex: 1,

paddingTop: 20,

alignItems: 'center',

marginTop: 50,

justifyContent: 'center',

});

Open pages/Screen3.js in any code editor and the Replace the code with the following code.

Screen3.js

//This is an example code for NavigationDrawer//
import React, { Component } from 'react';
//import react in our code.
import { StyleSheet, View, Text } from 'react-native';
// import all basic components

export default class Screen3 extends Component {
  //Screen3 Component
  render() {
    return (
      <View style={styles.MainContainer}>
        <Text style={{ fontSize: 23 }}> Screen 3 </Text>
      </View>
    );
  }
}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  MainContainer: {
    flex: 1,
    paddingTop: 20,
    alignItems: 'center',
    marginTop: 50,
    justifyContent: 'center',
  },
});

//This is an example code for NavigationDrawer//

import React, { Component } from 'react';

//import react in our code.

import { StyleSheet, View, Text } from 'react-native';

// import all basic components

export default class Screen3 extends Component {

//Screen3 Component

render() {

return (

<Text style={{ fontSize: 23 }}> Screen 3 </Text>

</View>

);

}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({

MainContainer: {

flex: 1,

paddingTop: 20,

alignItems: 'center',

marginTop: 50,

justifyContent: 'center',

});

To Run the React Native App

Open the terminal again and jump into your project using.

cd ProjectName

To run the project on an Android Virtual Device or on real debugging device

react-native run-android

or on the iOS Simulator by running

react-native run-ios (macOS only).

IOS

ANDROID

That was the React Native Navigation Drawer. If you have any doubt or you want to share something about the topic you can comment below or contact us here. There will be more posts coming soon. Stay tuned!

Hope you liked it. 🙂

93 thoughts on “Example of React Native Navigation Drawer with Latest Navigation V. 4+”

mani
January 22, 2019 at 1:31 pm | Reply
This code is not work in expo environment
- Snehal Agrawal
  January 22, 2019 at 1:47 pm | Reply
  React Navigation has updated to 3.+ please wait we will update it today only.
  - manikandan
    January 23, 2019 at 10:11 am | Reply
    Did you update?
  - manikandan
    January 23, 2019 at 10:13 am | Reply
    Did you update
    - Snehal Agrawal
      February 2, 2019 at 11:24 pm | Reply
      Updated For React navigation 3.+.
  - MUHAMMAD BILAL
    December 19, 2019 at 2:07 am | Reply
    sir i hava some problem here pleas tell me what i do next
    this navigator has both navigation and container props so it is unclear if it should own state.Remove props “init names” if the navigator should get its state from the navigation propsr if the navigator should maintain its own state ,do not pass the navigaion props
    - Snehal Agrawal
      December 21, 2019 at 10:15 pm | Reply
      Sorry, I am not clear about the question. Can you please ask again?
mani
January 23, 2019 at 10:12 am | Reply
Did you update?
- Snehal Agrawal
  February 2, 2019 at 11:24 pm | Reply
  Updated For React navigation 3.+.
Deepti
March 9, 2019 at 1:10 pm | Reply
Showing the error: undefined is not a function (evaluating ‘_this.props.navigationProps.toggleDrawer()’)
toggleDrawer
Can you please check this issue?
- Snehal Agrawal
  March 9, 2019 at 11:32 pm | Reply
  Hi Deepti,
  Can you please check the react-navigation version as this issue is very old and generally comes while using react-navigation 2.0. This Example is updated for the react-navigation 3.+.
  - Deepti
    March 13, 2019 at 12:10 am | Reply
    Thank you for your response.
    It was some issue in my route configuration. Now working fine.
    - Deepti
      March 13, 2019 at 12:28 am | Reply
      Do you have any article for showing the (Logo) image above the drawer navigation?
      - Snehal Agrawal
        March 13, 2019 at 12:31 am
        Hello Deepti,
        Happy to see you soon.
        You can visit 3 Ways to Add Image Icon Inside Navigation Bar in React Native (https://aboutreact.com/react-native-image-icon-inside-navigation-bar/)
        And for the Icon inside the Navigation Bar in React Native
        you can use the same navigation drawer(https://aboutreact.com/react-native-navigation-drawer/)
        If you want to add anything or you want to modify navigation header you can modify NavigationDrawerStructure something like this
        https://gm1.ggpht.com/f_9W2DQQyS4rxVw59LUGkgmRM8DG2s3jYRmG2IdJ5acoGwk18YyVttaDCxw5szaQCwol8zFX4uOO0HRRZymsT0CP4qqmEX33lXEU5Kq4nfdCKdJo92YU93pkXB9U94yE3daVaGiXuQLrW1RwDHRBlDX2ij-fOppw0ScfHM-8d3a_uuVVWXDG0JVejUTdOSRUkq7KU4kUt59TWRiGFktjPp2HCy2TpRQR0WcG4eXQKTq7JIj-sL0zxIBndtmQR8Zk7yu1LOKxVz8KMeNfWDSq0MsqpLeZr1050avxRLEnucPt3NaGfj7_i0MbB54m8iofbHC6VFQpjjyOt1NMfQu5h3mLSkf_zBhBxRIfJWiXrG0RsI12ZgcX5B4hcdsqHmBAVaLXbdmhtFjYtPELtA_IK33uwGtFoB5GVTXkANlPjlY2vS44MxS6AtpPTaLLqNGhbihJcO0cF-7g9PQcp27sAYeUJTnOvWsc_7HfBGyB_tp1TTTorFpVNG0vqwBCyXh5S0MLIZuziyBr3UcfIAd9896ugBRf70W5tdHavIIB7UwIgAmJAv0Ml1huVpcJwipsdW2CYHO6XQDwzwNr–HlRgmw8XIP35sww9O2tBCIVrmwEBSp0VYKOU3krwLm3rFom6IRGc35E2eNbpIaL-765RkUH0tCdp8YHjdnoIdSzDeFYwB7XKlbUebu4tda47FgNb5VXTtN7jTi2e768idMRGmTsH38vX4aNRcKMA=s0-l75-ft-l75-ft
        class NavigationDrawerStructure extends Component {
        //Structure for the navigatin Drawer
        toggleDrawer = () => {
        //Props to open/close the drawer
        this.props.navigationProps.toggleDrawer();
        };
        render() {
        return (
        <View style={{ flexDirection: ‘row’ }}>
        <TouchableOpacity onPress={this.toggleDrawer.bind(this)}>
        {/*Donute Button Image */}
        <Image
        source={require(‘./image/drawer.png’)}
        style={{ width: 25, height: 25, marginLeft: 5 }}
        />
        </TouchableOpacity>
        {/*You can put your images here or can customize anything from here*/}
        <Image
        source={{uri:’https://aboutreact.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/logosmalltransparen.png’,}}
        style={{ width: 25, height: 25, marginLeft: 5 }}
        />
        </View>
        );
        }
        }
    - Max
      March 20, 2019 at 6:14 pm | Reply
      Deepti, I have the same problem. Can you share what the issue with your route configuration was?
- Max
  March 20, 2019 at 6:23 pm | Reply
  I had to change to this.props.navigationProps.navigation.toggleDrawer() to make it work.
  - Snehal Agrawal
    March 21, 2019 at 9:13 am | Reply
    Hello Max,
    Good to hear that it works for you. Can you please confirm the React Navigation version you are using? as I always use this.props.navigationProps.toggleDrawer(); and it is working properly. Why you are facing the issue?
    I had a conversation with Dipti and she had the problem of configuration not with the toggle drawer.
Javier C
March 17, 2019 at 3:05 am | Reply
Excellent example/tutorial. Thanks a lot.
- Snehal Agrawal
  March 17, 2019 at 9:59 am | Reply
  Welcome 🙂
  Thank you for your appreciation your words matter a lot.
HICHAM
March 21, 2019 at 3:02 pm | Reply
I would like to pass a value from one class in a .js file to another class in another .js file.
- Snehal Agrawal
  March 21, 2019 at 4:04 pm | Reply
  You can see the following example and can use according to your need:
  1. Passing a value from one screen to another using react navigation.
  https://aboutreact.com/react-native-pass-value-from-one-screen-to-another-using-react-navigation/
  2. Global Scope Variable which can be accessed from anywhere once created
  https://aboutreact.com/react-native-global-scope-variables/
  3. You can also call the function of another class
  https://aboutreact.com/example-to-call-functions-of-other-class-from-current-class-in-react-native/
  You can use any of the solutions according to your need.
Lê Bá Đạt
April 25, 2019 at 1:07 pm | Reply
This text is goods. It’s help me a lot. Thanks you.
- Snehal Agrawal
  April 25, 2019 at 4:26 pm | Reply
  Welcome 🙂
AJ
April 28, 2019 at 12:16 pm | Reply
Thank you sooooooooooooooooooooooooo much you really help me alot
im subscribing right now im very happy
ruwan
April 30, 2019 at 6:10 pm | Reply
Thank you so much. Excellent and working properly.Thanks again.
- Snehal Agrawal
  April 30, 2019 at 6:23 pm | Reply
  Happy to help you 😊
nilesh
May 18, 2019 at 11:28 am | Reply
undefined is not a function (evaluating ‘(0, _reactNavigation.createStackNavigator)’)
react 3
- Snehal Agrawal
  May 19, 2019 at 9:13 am | Reply
  Hello nilesh,
  Can you please cross check the react navigation version and have you linked the project correctly??
Ayodele Darda
May 31, 2019 at 4:46 am | Reply
Hi, can I hide a screen from the drawer?
- Snehal Agrawal
  May 31, 2019 at 7:37 am | Reply
  Here is the example https://aboutreact.com/how-to-hide-navigation-drawer-sidebar-option/
Ayodele Darda
June 3, 2019 at 4:20 am | Reply
Hello, I have this issues when trying to pass params to another screen, e.g. passing email from users list to user detail screen….
TypeError: TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating ‘this.props.navigation.state.params.JSON_ListView_Clicked_Item’)
- Snehal Agrawal
  June 3, 2019 at 1:11 pm | Reply
  Have you properly seen the example?
  This error comes when you are not passing any value from 1st screen and try to get the value in the 2nd one..
  - Ayodele Darda
    June 4, 2019 at 1:37 am | Reply
    Actually I am. on the users list screen I have…..
    this.props.navigation.navigate(‘Profiles’, { Emailsss: item.email })} > {item.first_name} {item.last_name}
    and I get this error…
    TypeError: TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating ‘this.props.navigation.state.params.Emailsss’)
    I had to change from JSON_ListView_Clicked_Item to Emailsss to try fixing, but still not working.
    It Started happening since I implemented Drawer navigation.
Ayodele Darda
June 3, 2019 at 5:00 pm | Reply
Actually I am. on the users list screen I have…..
this.props.navigation.navigate(‘Profiles’, { Emailsss: item.email })} > {item.first_name} {item.last_name}
and I get this error…
TypeError: TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating ‘this.props.navigation.state.params.Emailsss’)
I had to change from JSON_ListView_Clicked_Item to Emailsss to try fixing, but still not working.
- Ayodele Darda
  June 3, 2019 at 5:02 pm | Reply
  It Started happening since I implemented Drawer navigation.
  - Snehal Agrawal
    June 5, 2019 at 11:58 pm | Reply
    Hello Ayodele,
    Can you please share your code on hello@aboutreact.com or aboutreact11@gmail.com so that I can see it.
nileshmean
June 12, 2019 at 11:09 am | Reply
How can i remove the header from inside pages like
Screen1 List -> Screen Details is page where i need back button how i can achieve this also change the header title.
- Snehal Agrawal
  July 20, 2019 at 3:49 pm | Reply
  You can follow this example https://aboutreact.com/switch-screen-out-of-the-navigation-drawer-in-react-native/
Rakshith
June 13, 2019 at 1:06 pm | Reply
showing blank white screen
- Snehal Agrawal
  July 20, 2019 at 3:47 pm | Reply
  Can you please share the code and the screenshot on aboutreact11@gmail.com?
Rakshith
June 13, 2019 at 1:12 pm | Reply
showing some blank white screen
- Snehal Agrawal
  July 20, 2019 at 3:47 pm | Reply
  Can you please share the code and the screenshot on aboutreact11@gmail.com?
dendhi
July 3, 2019 at 2:31 pm | Reply
I already update react native navigation into 3+ but i also get error : undefined is not and object : this.props.navigationProps.toggleDrawer. please help
- Snehal Agrawal
  July 15, 2019 at 1:21 am | Reply
  Can you please check whether the installation of the library didn’t give you any error and linking of the library was fine.
Vishal Senjaliya
July 15, 2019 at 7:24 pm | Reply
How to access drawer in swipe gestures??
- Snehal Agrawal
  July 16, 2019 at 8:01 am | Reply
  It is already there. Just swipe left to right and you will see the drawer coming out.
Luís Lança
July 15, 2019 at 10:44 pm | Reply
null is not an object ( evaluating ‘RNGestureHandlerModule.Direction’)
My app:
“dependencies”: {
“react”: “16.8.6”,
“react-native”: “0.60.3”,
“react-native-gesture-handler”: “^1.3.0”,
“react-navigation”: “^3.11.1”
}
- Snehal Agrawal
  July 16, 2019 at 8:02 am | Reply
  Have you liked the library? This often comes when you install the library but haven’t installed it properly.
Lokesh kumar
July 16, 2019 at 12:00 pm | Reply
By default there is a back arrow above the navigation header. How to disable it?
- Snehal Agrawal
  July 18, 2019 at 10:12 pm | Reply
  While working with Navigator it shows the back arrow on the screen automatically if any of the previous screen is in the stack. So there are two solutions for that.
  1. Hide the default header https://aboutreact.com/react-native-hide-navigation-bar-and-make-screen-full-screen/
  and make your own custom header https://aboutreact.com/custom-header-using-navigation-options-in-react-native/
  2. If you don’t want to go to the previous screen as we do in case of Splash/Introduction screen then instead of Stack Navigator you can use Switch Navigator https://aboutreact.com/react-native-finish-current-screen-while-navigating-to-next-screen/
Rod
July 20, 2019 at 7:01 pm | Reply
Hi, very nice and clear.
Do you guys have an account where we can clone the code from? a github repo?
Thanks!
- Snehal Agrawal
  July 20, 2019 at 10:24 pm | Reply
  Hi Rod,
  Not yet as React Native versions are changing very frequently almost in a month so we think the code base will expire over a time but still We are planning for that with some solution of this frequent changes.
hugo
July 30, 2019 at 2:45 pm | Reply
Thanks a lot, I was struggling to make it work. I was not sure if I had linked rn gesture handler correctly, but apparently I did. Just my code was not working but yours does so thanks a lot!
- Snehal Agrawal
  July 30, 2019 at 6:08 pm | Reply
  It is nice to hear that. 🙂
  Can you please share what is the problem you are facing in your code? Maybe I can help you.
Anbu Selvan
August 6, 2019 at 6:22 pm | Reply
Thanks a lot excellent tutorial.I have a small doubt in my example i have created a custom drawer menu where top area will be occupied by main app icon and below will my drawer menu like home,about,settings… etc so my question is on press of the main icon i want to close the drawer menu and update the state of the home screen.
- Snehal Agrawal
  August 6, 2019 at 11:09 pm | Reply
  To close the drawer menu you can use this.props.navigationProps.toggleDrawer(); and for the 2nd point you can take the reference from Custom Navigation Drawer / Sidebar with Image and Icon in Menu Options
Sevag
August 6, 2019 at 10:41 pm | Reply
Hello Snehal,
Thank you for the snippet.
I tried to add multple indexes in a stackNavigator but there wasn’t any changes.
Could you explain the utility to do that (if there is) and what should be the result.
- Snehal Agrawal
  August 6, 2019 at 11:22 pm | Reply
  Hello Sevag, If you talk about the stack navigator then they are related to the single screen. In a single line, drawer navigation contains multiple stack navigator where each index of drawer navigator is a sidebar option and each index of the stack navigator is the multiple screens in the single option.
  If we have option1 with screen11, screen12, screen13, option2 with screen21, screen22, and option3 with screen31 then option1, option2, and option3 will be the drawer options and will come in drawer navigator but in the form of stack navigator with the same screen in a single option.
JNBDC
August 15, 2019 at 11:37 am | Reply
how can i add a logo or image background inside the drawer?
- Snehal Agrawal
  August 17, 2019 at 11:46 am | Reply
  For this please follow Custom Navigation Drawer / Sidebar with Image and Icon in Menu Options
jasneet
August 20, 2019 at 9:06 pm | Reply
Thanks alot Sir, great job done please share more example for the beginners… must appreciated…
- Snehal Agrawal
  August 20, 2019 at 10:59 pm | Reply
  Thank you for appreciation 🙂
Latha
August 24, 2019 at 5:04 pm | Reply
null is not an object ( evaluating ‘RNGestureHandlerModule.Direction’)
App Dependencies
“dependencies”: {
“react”: “16.8.6”,
“react-native”: “0.60.5”,
“react-native-gesture-handler”: “^1.4.1”,
“react-navigation”: “^3.12.0”
},
- Snehal Agrawal
  August 24, 2019 at 5:30 pm | Reply
  Have you done the cocoa pods installation? Please follow all the steps it is working fine from my side.
Yeshwant Kumar Gupta
August 27, 2019 at 10:54 am | Reply
Thank you very much Snehal Agrawal
I was suffered a lot for this, finally I got a solution by your code.
- Snehal Agrawal
  August 27, 2019 at 11:12 pm | Reply
  Nice to see that. 🙂
Akshar Patel
September 6, 2019 at 6:26 pm | Reply
undefined is not an object (evaluating ‘_core.ThemeColors.Lights’)
how can i solve this problem help me
- Snehal Agrawal
  September 6, 2019 at 11:56 pm | Reply
  if you’re using 3.x then make sure its on the latest version, and as @MoOx suggested, delete your lockfile and delete node_modules.
  Please follow this thread https://github.com/react-navigation/react-navigation/issues/6249
Miska
September 9, 2019 at 6:45 pm | Reply
Great tutorial!! You helped me a lot!! 🙂 I spend so much time to find out how to make proper navigation drawer, any tutorial was working but yours finally did the job 😀 Thank you so much.
- Snehal Agrawal
  September 9, 2019 at 10:03 pm | Reply
  Glad to hear that. 🙂
Jhoejhoe
September 14, 2019 at 4:45 pm | Reply
How to reset the the stack navigator to it’s initial route when clicking the Drawer Items.
- Snehal Agrawal
  September 19, 2019 at 12:53 am | Reply
  Can you please follow the following thread
  https://github.com/react-navigation/react-navigation/issues/725
Vinayak
September 23, 2019 at 7:29 pm | Reply
i want to add a logout button inside the drawer and also add another drawer inside a screen how to do that?
- Snehal Agrawal
  September 23, 2019 at 11:05 pm | Reply
  Can you please try this example
  - Vinayak
    September 24, 2019 at 11:08 am | Reply
    i followed this only but i don’t want a logout page just need a button. So where should i add the function and the button?
- Vinayak
  September 25, 2019 at 5:08 pm | Reply
  I couldn’t navigate from home page to login page after logout it shows ” Cannot read property ‘navigation’ of undefined” when i console log this.props.navigation it shows undefined
  - Snehal Agrawal
    September 26, 2019 at 10:27 pm | Reply
    Please check your inbox.
senthilkumar
October 10, 2019 at 8:22 am | Reply
Hi Snehal Agrawal,
It’s very help to me to learn react native.
I have a question how to close side menu when clicking outside of side menu part link other screen?
it’s working when clicking on other screen on side menu but i need to close when open side menu then click out side of side menu want to close.
- Snehal Agrawal
  October 10, 2019 at 10:44 pm | Reply
  Can you please look into it https://aboutreact.com/swipe-gestures-not-working-in-android/
Happy
November 21, 2019 at 11:37 pm | Reply
I swear to god i looked for around 12 hrs trying to do this and none of the blogs helped me like this one. A big thanks to whoever wrote this post . Keep coding
- Snehal Agrawal
  November 21, 2019 at 11:53 pm | Reply
  Thanks 🙂
Gokila
November 23, 2019 at 12:55 pm | Reply
Hi Snehal,
Two days i was hardly trying to configure am getting the error as toggle drawer is not a function.Am not getting toggleDrawer or openDrawer or closeDrawer in my navigation props.Anything i did wrong ?Please help me to solve this issue
- Snehal Agrawal
  November 25, 2019 at 8:42 pm | Reply
  Can you please share the react-navigation version from your package.json?
Vignesh S Kannan
December 4, 2019 at 6:02 pm | Reply
Awesome post. Thank you !!!
- Snehal Agrawal
  December 5, 2019 at 8:34 pm | Reply
  Welcome 🙂
Ramya
December 10, 2019 at 5:35 pm | Reply
Hi,
Can you post the code with createTopNavigationTabs and NavigationDrawer?
- Snehal Agrawal
  December 10, 2019 at 9:08 pm | Reply
  You can look it here https://aboutreact.com/tab-view-inside-navigation-drawer-sidebar-with-react-navigation/
Yuslianto
January 6, 2020 at 3:19 pm | Reply
I get blank white screen after do something in another screen in drawer orders and back to first screen in drawer products
Kumar saurav
January 16, 2020 at 4:01 pm | Reply
error: bundling failed: Error: Unable to resolve module @react-native-community/masked-view from node_modules\react-navigation-stack\lib\module\vendor\views\MaskedView.js: @react-native-community/masked-view could not be found within the project.
how to solve this sir?
- Snehal Agrawal
  January 18, 2020 at 4:30 pm | Reply
  Sorry but it is related to masked-view https://www.npmjs.com/package/@react-native-community/masked-view not related to this.
  But for the trial you can remove node_module and run npm install to create it again after that try to link you library again.
manisha
January 17, 2020 at 6:30 pm | Reply
drawer not closed when clicking outside drawer in react native.
Can you help me please.
- Snehal Agrawal
  January 18, 2020 at 4:19 pm | Reply
  Have a look at this solution https://aboutreact.com/swipe-gestures-not-working-in-android/
Jordan
January 21, 2020 at 3:31 pm | Reply
Hello Sir, thanks for this guide… But may I want to navigate on this from the Log in page… can you help me?

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