react-navigation-current-route

react-navigation-current-route

Get the current route name for an application which is using react-navigation

Installation:

npm install react-navigation-current-route --save

Usage:

Pass the

• Get the navigation state, as in redux store -> navigationState
• Pass navigationState to the method exported from react-navigation-current-route
• The method returns the current route name :sunglasses:

/* Get current route in a container */

import {connect} from 'react-redux';
import result from 'lodash/result';
import getCurrentRouteName from 'react-navigation-current-route';
...
// Pass the current navigation state object
const currentRoute = getCurrentRouteName(this.props.navigationState)

...
// Get the current navigation state from the redux store
export const mapStateToProps = (state) => ({
  navigationState: result(state, 'nav', {}),
});

export default connect(mapStateToProps, null)(/* component-name*/);

/* Get current route in a middleware like saga */

import {call,select} from 'redux-saga/effects';
import result from 'lodash/result';
import getCurrentRouteName from 'react-navigation-current-route';

// Get the current navigation state from the redux store
export const getNavigationState = (state) => result(state, 'nav', null);

export function* someSaga () {
    const navigationState = yield select(getNavigationState);
    // Pass the current navigation state object
    const currentRoute = yield call(getCurrentRouteName, navigationState);
    // currentRoute would then have the current route name  
}

References:

• react-navigation