React Native Project Template with React Navigation (bottom tabs)

The last few days have been spent digging into React Native and the different navigation libraries available. First, I tried react-native-navigation V2. I ran into many issues with version conflicts and the installation for android was extremely tedious (documentation here). I ran through these instructions multiple times and still messed up somehow, so I ended up switching to react-navigation, where the install process was much quicker for both android and ios. Even then, I ran into some issues with missing dependencies.

Eventually, I finally got an example app running with bottom tabs navigation:

• React native version: 0.59.3
• React navigation version: 3.x

Github Link:

I shared the template on github here, in hopes it can be used to help you get your react native application up and running without going through the pain I did. Enjoy! :)