React Navigation vs. React Native Navigation: Which One Should You Use?
Both React Navigation and React Native Navigation are popular libraries for handling navigation in React Native apps, but they have key differences in how they work and their underlying architecture.
- Type: JavaScript-based navigation
- Performance: Runs on React Native's JavaScript thread (can be slightly less performant for complex animations)
- Customization: Highly customizable with a wide variety of navigation patterns (stack, tab, drawer, etc.)
- Ease of Use: Simple API and easier to integrate
- Community Support: Officially recommended by React Native and widely used
- Type: Fully native navigation
- Performance: Uses native views and transitions, making it smoother and more performant, especially for large-scale apps
- Customization: Less flexible in terms of customization compared to React Navigation
- Ease of Use: More complex to set up and requires linking native dependencies
- Community Support: Maintained by Wix, used in large-scale apps needing native performance
- If you want a quick and easy solution → React Navigation
- If you need high-performance, native-like transitions → React Native Navigation