Out of curiosity, which library are you referring to?
Few issues:
- Tons of bugs (see next point)
- Bigger error/bug surface, 3 languages compared to 1.
- Poor documentation
- Stopped accepting PRs for 1.0 when they decided 2.0 is the way to go (randomly, 2.0 wasn't nearly ready)
- Closing issues without any response (bot that closes them, wtf?)
Check Twitter, Google or whatever and people will mostly say positive stuff about it how they are excited and how fun it is for their TODO List app. We tried building something more sophisticated and it's insane how many things don't work as documented.
Note: react-navigation is also pretty bad, it improved in last year, but there is nothing better in the react-native ecosystem (there used to be something but during my months of inactivity it was removed from the RN itself).
Can probably compile a list of high profile libraries that suck if anyone is interested...
Please do!
I agree with your stance on react-native navigation, but I'm not having too many problems with react-navigation. What's your issue with it?
react-navigation is pretty good actually, haven't had any big issues this time. At the beginning when I first evaluated it they had breaking changes way too often, things were buggy, all in all, it wasn't ready for production. Today it feels different, but I can't write a blog post about it yet as I haven't been using it for long enough.
I'm still not sure how to get previous functionality from 2.0 (app wide background image) working in 3.0, considering that now my root component has to be provided by React-Navigation.
<ImageBackground> <RootNavigator/> </ImageBackground>
There can be only 1 navigator rendered at a time, but it does not have to be the root of your application. Otherwise there wouldn't be any redux, either.
Arguably you should pick native over RN if you care that the VoiceOver back gesture works and Picture in Picture views on iPad are positioned correctly below the navigation bar but react-native-navigation is doing a valuable and difficult thing that no one else is attempting.