react-navigation / react-navigation/react-navigation
Drawer snacks broken
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package:drawer
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Description
Current Behavior
A snack crash (blue screen).

Expected Behavior
A white screen.
How to reproduce
Run the snack.
Snack: https://snack.expo.io/7mVy0cdir
The code does a simple import.
import { createDrawerNavigator } from '@react-navigation/drawer';
Your Environment
| software | version |
|---|---|
| Android | 8.1.0 |
| @react-navigation/native | 5.7.3 |
| @react-navigation/drawer | ^5.9.0 |
| react-native-reanimated | ^1.7.0 |
| react-native-gesture-handler | none |
| react-native-safe-area-context | ^3.0.2 |
| react-native-screens | ^2.9.0 |
| react-native | snack's version, I don't know how to get it |
| expo | snack's version, I don't know how to get it |
| node | snack's version, I don't know how to get it |
| npm or yarn | snack's version, I don't know how to get it |
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the linked Snack and reproduce the failure at the simple @react-navigation/drawer import on Android 8.1.0. Investigate why the Snack shows a blue screen instead of the reported white screen, then verify that the same import no longer crashes in the Snack environment.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, react-native
- Domain
- mobile
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100