React Native Tab Bar Routing with Expo Router 

I can't thank you enough for this! I was going on looking for all possible info on the net about how exactly to do what you are explaining here, and I just couldn't find the right info. It was a bit frustrating to say the least. But you've successfully explained it in just 10 minutes!! That's just awesome! Thank you again.

BROOOOOOOOOOOO. YOU HAVE NO IDEA!!! BRO, I WAS FAILING TO REMOVE THE BOTTOM TAB!!! Man God bless you hahaha. Like you have no idea how frustrating it is. I prayed last night and was like Lord, this thing has me down and I am starting to avoid the project. (It's literally my first app because I am a UI UX designer). I said to Him please don't let this be one of those things i start that ends up being a bygone I never pursued. And right now after sitting down to do it, I felt 'search using your phone'. I was at my laptop by the way. And then I searched using my phone, and your video was the first on my suggestions and it was a RU-vid video. Do you know how many searches I had done prior on my laptop? MANY. There was not much to indicate that this video is for this specific issue I am facing, but I just knew it was the video to watch among the other videos and bam! If you don't believe in the Holy Spirit, y'all need to seek Him out.

This is exactly what I was looking for, thanks a lot. I think if you need to say home/index when you don’t have the layout file and that’s why you were getting a warning.

At 3:14, if you define a React component as an anonymous function, i.e. `export default () => `, then React Refresh won't be able to restore the state inside that component correctly. This is because the function name is used as a restoration ID for components.

The contents in this channel is very infomative,it really helps me understand react native and able to go on. and I like how you explain in each part which important but most tutorial i found don't have.

Great stuff. It actually helped me to understand how using Stack works - godsend!!

You speak and do thing fast, love it !!!

You did a much better job than the docs and example repos. I spent a few hours on this as it’s completely counter intuitive to do things this way. I wouldn’t say Expo Router is anywhere near being ready for production especially given the state of the docs. It’s far simpler to just use React Navigation directly right now.

Thank you, Simon! This was a nice introduction. I am still wondering how you use the you use the React Native Functional Export Component to autogenerate some boiler plate code for new screens. Do you have to install an npm package to use that 'rnfe' command or to use the export component in general?

Thank you very much for the video, really clarifying. I have 3 questions, I am doing the migration in a medium-sized project, with a mixed navigation of Tabs with Stack in each Tab.Screen. 1 - What is the best way to do this on the Expo router? I've seen several videos, docs and tutorials and I'm skating. I'm having a lot of difficulty. 2 - Can I point out the Expo Router Stacks while keeping the screen files in the src/screens folder? 3 - How to reuse the same screen in 2 different stacks? I have a screen that repeats in 2 stacks. Could you make a video about this, I believe that most React Navigation projects have these characteristics that I am having difficulty with.

Dude you just saved my bacon, thank you so much for this vid!

Thanks dear for helping me to digest cool stuff easily.

This was very helpful, thank you! I am trying to do somethign similar to this with one exception. Is there a way to navigate from a tab directly to a screen with a hidden tab bar? For instance, your 'list' tab navigated to a screen that linked to a 'New One' screen which did not have that tab bar. Is there a way to skip the middle screen and have the 'New One' screen be represented in the tab bar? Think of the 'new post' button in Instagram's tab bar. When the user presses on 'new post' it navigates to directly to a screen without the tab bar.

Hey Simon great video. I want to ask, if I have certain state in my "HomeScreen" page, and I want to make a new page with details with the info of my state of the HomeScreen, I need to use the useContext in the root layout.tsx of the Expo-router thing in order to do that? Sorry if this question is a dummy question, I'm a newbie with React actually.

i was getting crazy trying to create nested routes inside tabs, every time i created a new route it was creating a new tab... the point is the use of _layout.tsx inside my tab screen folder (like your /home/_layout.tsx)... thank you!!!!!!! i must to say that i've searching for a solution even the IA and even that can't help me until now!! hahahahha ty again!

Exact Video, I needed!! Thanks Man

This is a really helpful intro. Many many thanks.

i never work with mobile development. Do you think that is a good idea start by expo? Or should I learn react-native concepts first? I only choose expo, because seems to be a new react-native patterns (something similiar to CRA in react web dev)

Thank you ☝😉... make a video on expo router authentication implementation with ... i dont know... appwrite or firebase ?

This was really helpful It's saved my Job Thanks a lot

Thank you so much, Simon, for your great content. I am facing some issues with nested routes. In my case, the parent layout is a Tab (Tab 1, Tab 2, Tab 3). I have a nested stack layout inside each tab. Suppose I am on Tab 1 and there is a link that routes to Tab 2 > Screen 3 (not the initial route). Now, on Tab 2, I can't go back to the main screen of Tab 2. It gets stuck on Screen 3 (clicking on Tab 2 does not route me to the main screen of the Tab 2). It would be great if you could give me a solution or make a short video about that. Thank you so much! 💖💖

Somehow the articles i followed excluded the index file which constantly gave me unmatched routes :/ Thank you for saving me and making me learn some more about expo routs!

I am getting "Unmatched Route" error, even though i just copied everything you did. I think there is some diff b/n JS and TS about routing. How to make this work on JS project, without TS?

Very useful and saved me time. Thank you.

I was looking for this! Thanks

Great video Simon! I like how you explain everything, most tutorials feel slow for people that are already familiar with React

Thanks mate really helpful stuff 👍

This sample as is didn't work for me. anywhere i can find the code? not sure what i am missing.

thank you very much i was lot confused about the index gile

Hey thanks for your awesome video! Tell me, please, how can I connect redux in such a breakdown into files and such an architecture. I mean, exactly where should I use to push state to each page

Great video, and good explanation

Congratulations 👏. Can you make a series of clean architecture in React Native projects, cover pattern like atomic design and how to apply it in React Native Projects. I have been thinking build an app for authentication I wanna use third services such firebase auth or clerk, and maybe later change to another provider, with good practices to avoid accomplishment with one specific provider follow strategy pattern or other one for a particular case Also build from scratch or use one of your existent project to convert into PWA using expo.

That looks cool. Is it ready for production yet?

thanks for your efforts , but how to make the tab bar shows in all pages of react native expo mobile app even the page is not shown in shortcuts of tab bar?

for some reason when i use the (tabs) in the app/layout i am getting the default project example screen with the default tabs and none of my files in the (tabs) folder are being seen

Hi Simon, nice video! I was wondering if its possible to navigate between two tabs programatically without the user clicking the tab at the bottom. Say there is a button in the home tab which when the user clicks it brings the list tab into view?

that was exaactly what i was looking for ty man

very helpful. thank you man

Thats great tutorial! I have a question, Is it possible to combine Tab Bar Nav with Drawer in Expo, as I spent hours to do so unsuccessfully. I would like the bottom menu to be Tab Bar Nav, and also have the option to call Drawer Nav for example as an app settings menu. Thanks in Advance!

Thanks. This helped me a great deal.

Great video! Did anyone manage to replace (tabs) in the header when navigating backwards to say something else like the name of the page you came from or using the word "Back"?

File based router is great. But there is an issue to organise my code. For example, I screens, utils, components folder inside my app folder like usual RN project. But I don't want utils, components appears in the router and for screens, I only want the contents appeared in router. I know I can use [screens] for this purpose. But how to disable components, utils folders appeared in router?

Thanks This is what I did to solve it. I was wondering if there was a better way 😅

If you want to use a context. where is the best place to warp the context provider? i have my index on the same level as my login and register screens/components

After i do the redirect with replace to a page that is inside the file (tabs) it shows this error " The action 'REPLACE' with payload {"name":"agenda"} was not handled by any navigator. Do you have a screen named 'agenda'? Do you know what could be happening?

it's really helpful and easy understand for the tab bar in expo-route. can you do one thing simon can we do the live talk for more about expo route so you and we can share the ideas each other. I think sound go. what do you think @simon

I'm really new to this concept of file based navigation, if every file is route and so do folders are, how does one organizes these files and folders? For instance i usually have screens on its own folder and sometimes within this folder i also have a components folder with ui speficic componentes to this screen as well as a styles file. How can you ignore files and folders with this system? I'd like to ignore this components folder (including all the files inside it) as well as any .tsx file of my desire, thank you before hand if you know how!

Hi may I ask what extensions you used for code completion when you type ‘rnf…’

Please make a tutorial on how to customize and change theme in tamagui

Simply, Thanks

Thanks perfect tutorial.

Hi there Simon, thanks a lot for the tutorial. There one thing I'm a little confused about, you showed how to use a tab screen as your first screen and How can we make a first screen with no tabbar and the second screen we navigate with a tabbar?

Is it possible to implement a home/splash screen without all those tab bars and headers? I need to create a home screen with a button. This button navigates to the tab bar home screen. In React Navigation it's easy. I hope you know what I mean. best regards

does expo router is used for real projects, like react navigation library? thanks

What is the safest way to send firebase data in ionic?

Hi Simon and thanks for your video. Can you make a video where you make an application with a drawer menu and with top swiper tabs in expo-router? Please

so you have to keep duplicating the same layout file if you want to nest routes within the tab bar and still show the tab bar? That doesn't seem right, I hope I am misunderstanding

How can we keep the bottom tab bar after the push ?

Thanks😊

5:15 What are you meaning with this? I have replayed and I have no idea what you mean

It would be helpfull, you make a video, about pass API-data from one tab to another tab, with TS an expo-router.🙏

why do we need 2 lists ? one inside the tab one under the root folder why not just one

This works but the route outside the tabs is mounted twice and the animation also plays twice I think I'm gonna just refactor the whole app to use react navigation directly I've wasted like 6-7 hours trying to fix it

Why don' t you do drawer-navigation with dynamic routes on expo ?

good stuff! thank you

Can a person use Expo Router with Javascript file sinstead of TypeScript? I prefer JS and would just like to know.

at 7:13 how we remove "< (tabs)" ? thnk you

We need a run through of a top tab with expo router

Is it possible to transfer the tab bar from the bottom to the top of screen?

How do you implement drawer in here? is it a folder like (drawer) ?

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The background in tab is not working please help

I am getting Attempted to navigate before mounting RootLayout Component

This video is amazing!

Hi. Can you please ask your buddies @expo how to hide a tab bar within a nested stack inside a tabbar thanks 😅

If i want to hide my tab bar from One of the screens using expo router. How to do that in my react native app?

thank you man

Hey can anyone help I want to add more than 2 tabs is it possible

How did you do that 'rnfe' TAB short cut to create the index.js component?

test, headerTitle: "title", headerTitleAlign: "center", headerTitleStyle: { fontSize: 25, fontWeight: 'bold', color: 'red' }, headerStyle: { backgroundColor: 'orange', } }} /> Error -> The `redirect` prop on is deprecated and will be removed. Please use `router.redirect` instead what is problem and how to fix

what about navigation

Awesome

better than docs wow, any source code for that ?

Why is my (tabs) constantly displayed on the screen?

Gracias hermano

react navigation library was more easy and understandable

❤

Expo Router seems very messed up, it’s hard to understand, the docs are awful/useless and theres no big advantage on using it

Still don't know how to actually customize each tab

Good info.. but who are you racing? Lol. I never understand why people put out tutorials and then talk and work as fast as humanly possible. I’m trying to wrap my head around these dynamic routes. With an image modal

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You jump around so much, you click off the file browser so we can't see folder structure and have to pause and rewind to see it, you move your mouse so erratically and constantly stopping what you're saying to start another sentence. It's so hard to follow

How can we have transition between tabs when navigating?