Passing params to tab navigator React Navigation 5

Question

I’m using materialTopTabs and it seems like this loads all the screens in the navigator once its mounted. I have a screen List and inside it a

Answer 1

Pass params to the navigator and then expose it to the tabs using React Context.

Create a context in a separate file which you can import in both your navigator and screens:

export const NetworkContext = React.createContext();

Then provide the params in the context:

const PostsTabNav = createMaterialTopTabNavigator();

const PostsMainNav = ({ route }) => {
  return (
    <NetworkContext.Provider value={route.params.network}>
      <PostsTabNav.Navigator>
        <PostsTabNav.Screen name="NetworkPosts" component={NetworkPostsScreen} />
        <PostsTabNav.Screen name="NetworkUsers" component={NetworkUsersScreen} />
      </PostsTabNav.Navigator>
    </NetworkContext.Provider>
  );
};

In your screen component, use the context:

const network = React.useContext(NetworkContext);

Also see https://reactnavigation.org/docs/hello-react-navigation#passing-additional-props