react native router-flux multiple sub scenes

Question

I am trying to understand how to use router-flux and have multiple scenes/sub scenes similar to having multiple story boards, so that I can have a scene for the user sign up process, and then a scene for once the user is sign up and logged in.

At present I am doing this but it isn't given me the desired result

class NavigationRouter extends Component {
  render () {
    return (
      <Router>
        <Scene key='drawer' component={NavigationDrawer} open={false}>
          <Scene key='root' tabs={true}>
            <Scene key='account' hideNavBar={true} >
              <Scene initial key='Login' component={Login} title='Login' />
              <Scene key='SignUp' component={SignUp} title='SignUp' />
              <Scene key='Account' component={Account} title='Account' />
              <Scene key='Venue' component={Venue} title='Venue' />
            </Scene>
            <Scene key='auth' renderLeftButton={NavItems.hamburgerButton} navigationBarStyle={Styles.navBar} titleStyle={Styles.title} leftButtonIconStyle={Styles.leftButton} rightButtonTextStyle={Styles.rightButton} >
              <Scene key='MenuItems' component={MenuItems} title='Your Menu' />
              <Scene key='Orders' component={Orders} title='Orders' />
            </Scene>
          </Scene>
        </Scene>
      </Router>
    )
  }
}

The first part of the login/signup journey should not display the nav bar and allow the user to go back to the past step.

The second part should allow the logged in user to access the nav bar and side draw for the items which are defined in it

Answer 1

Even though grouping scenes with another scene looks more readable and correct, it makes Action not to work as expected, since Actions.SCENE() can only navigate within its siblings. In other words, two scenes should have the same parent.

Here's a modified version of your navigator tree. For example, you can start with Login scene, and route directly to tab1 by calling Actions.tabbar(). In your tabbar scene, there will be two subcomponents. User can manually navigate between tabs, or you can again call Actions.tab2(), since they're siblings too.

I prefer putting every scene sibling to another since it takes two chained actions. It looks a bit messy, but using spaces and comments help.

class NavigationRouter extends Component {
  render () {
    return (
      <Router>
        <Scene key='drawer' component={NavigationDrawer} open={false}>
          <Scene key='root'>

            {/* Authentications */}
            <Scene initial key='Login' component={Login} title='Login' />
            <Scene key='SignUp' component={SignUp} title='SignUp' />
            <Scene key='Account' component={Account} title='Account' />

            {/* Main */}
            <Scene key='Venue' component={Venue} title='Venue' />

            {/* Tabs... */}
            <Scene key='tabbar' tabs={true} renderLeftButton={NavItems.hamburgerButton} navigationBarStyle={Styles.navBar} titleStyle={Styles.title} leftButtonIconStyle={Styles.leftButton} rightButtonTextStyle={Styles.rightButton} >
              <Scene icon={Icon1} key='tab1' component={MenuItems} title='Your Menu' />
              <Scene icon={Icon2} key='tab2' component={Orders} title='Orders' />
            </Scene>

          </Scene>
        </Scene>
      </Router>
    )
  }
}

If you want to jump directly to the sub-scene of a sibling, say tabbar1, combine two actions:

Actions.callback({key:'tabbar',type:'push'});
Actions.callback({key:'tab1',type:'jump'});

The ugliest part of the tree above is styling multiple scenes at once. Such as removing navbar from 5 siblings. And there you can define an object of props and add them into corresponding sub-scenes {...customProps}

Better way of organizing: Split your scenes to smaller parts if needed.