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[Due for payment 2025-07-22] [Due for payment 2025-07-15] Bump react-native-screens and react-navigation to newer versions #62850
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The react-navigation 6 we use right now utilises react-native-screens 3, which will be deprecated soon. We also have patches for react-navigation that could be removed by updating to version 7. This will reduce the maintenance overhead.
Solution
- Update to
react-navigation7 which will require bumping thereact-native-screenstoo - Remove App patches that are included in the react-navigation 7 updates
- by updating to newer version we will move to use
usePreventRemoveinstead of UNSTABLE_usePreventRemove - stable version coming in the new version - Investigate preloading to improve the perceived performance of the app
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melvin-bot commentedon May 27, 2025
Triggered auto assignment to @abekkala (
Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details. Please add this bug to a GH project, as outlined in the SO.mountiny commentedon May 27, 2025
@staszekscp Could you please list out the patches that can be removed
[-]bump react-native-screens and react-navigation to newer versions[/-][+]Bump react-native-screens and react-navigation to newer versions[/+]staszekscp commentedon May 27, 2025
These are the patches that are currently related to
react-navigationandreact-native-screens. I can't promise that we'll get rid of all of them, but we'll see what we can do!mountiny commentedon May 27, 2025
I think we have some custom react- navigation changes we cannot easily remove but even if we can get rid of some of them its beneficial
melvin-bot commentedon Jun 2, 2025
@staszekscp Huh... This is 4 days overdue. Who can take care of this?
mountiny commentedon Jun 2, 2025
Full proposal will be posted later
mountiny commentedon Jun 2, 2025
Proposal posted here
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abekkala commentedon Jul 15, 2025
@allgandalf bumping this from above:
it's unclear to me which PR is linked for this issue payout:
I initially thought it was #65840 but that one is showing Vit as the Reviewer.
allgandalf commentedon Jul 16, 2025
sorry for missing the bump @abekkala , here's the list of PR's i reviewed:
@react-navigationandreact-native-screensto the newest versions #64155getStateFromPathpatch #65072NAVIGATE_DEPRECATEDand usePOP_TOinstead #65258allgandalf commentedon Jul 16, 2025
No special regression tests here, regular regression testing should already be in place for this one!
mountiny commentedon Jul 16, 2025
$750 to @allgandalf
abekkala commentedon Jul 18, 2025
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allgandalf commentedon Jul 18, 2025
Accepted 👍
melvin-bot commentedon Jul 21, 2025
@abekkala Whoops! This issue is 2 days overdue. Let's get this updated quick!
melvin-bot commentedon Jul 22, 2025
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abekkala commentedon Jul 23, 2025
@allgandalf payment sent and contract ended - thank you! 🎉
melvin-bot commentedon Oct 15, 2026
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