Recently, I’ve been building out a React Native app and it’s really crazy how easy it is to transition from React to React Native. At a surface level it’s almost as simple as using a UI library on React. But one of the differences is obviously going to be Routing vs Navigation. While we had URLs on the web, on apps it’s a different concept. With that, let’s talk about React-Navigation.

Because URLs aren’t a thing, you no longer have RESTful routes that you can use. Instead, because on the web, history was such an integral part of development we had back buttons and a full history of…