Action to reload a screen maybe about rfcs

[satya164]

What do you mean by reloading a screen?

[FiberJW]

Loading a screen as a new/fresh component which causes it to call its lifecycle methods again @satya164

[satya164]

Why would you need support for this in navigation library? You can manage it yourself by extracting your component and rendering with a special key, or call the methods you want to be called again.

[FiberJW]

Unless it becomes a highly-requested functionality, I don't think that it would need to become a named feature in the react-navigation API. For now, maybe a small note/guide in the docs explaining this potential use case and solutions for it would be most effective if users are to run into this need again.

[satya164]

Closing this since it isn't very react-y to "reload" a component. If someone really really needs it, replace does the job fine, or by extracting the component and rendering with a new key.

With React Navigation 5 replace is available on all navigators, not just stack.