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ERROR The action 'NAVIGATE' with payload {"name":"Home"} was not handled by any navigator – React native

I am building an app with React Native and Expo and i am trying to implement authentication in the app but i am getting this error and i can’t find a solution.

Basically i have 2 navigation stacks AppStack & AuthStack in my App.js. AppStack will be shown if the user is authenticated and if the user is not authenticated then AuthStack will be shown to the user.

So i am conditionally rendering the stacks with ternary operator as you can see in the App.js code below. The stacks are working fine i mean if user is authenticated then AppStack is shown and if not then AuthStack is shown.

Now the Signin screen is present in AuthStack and when a user logs in successfully he should be navigated to Home screen navigation.navigate("Home") which is present in AppStack. But when a user logs in it throws me this error.

ERROR  The action 'NAVIGATE' with payload {"name":"Home"} was not handled by any navigator.                                                                                    
Do you have a screen named 'Home'?                                                      
If you're trying to navigate to a screen in a nested navigator, see https://reactnavigation.org/docs/nesting-navigators#navigating-to-a-screen-in-a-nested-navigator.

This is a development-only warning and won't be shown in production

Here is the App.js code:

const AppStack = () => {
    return (
      <>
      <Stack.Navigator>
        <Stack.Screen name="Home" component={Home} options={{headerStyle: {backgroundColor: "#000"}, headerTintColor: "white"}} />
        <Stack.Screen name="Forgot Password" component={ForgotPwd} options={{headerStyle: {backgroundColor: "#2a454e"}, headerTintColor: "white"}} />
        <Stack.Screen name="Check Your Inbox" component={ForgotPwdNext} options={{headerStyle: {backgroundColor: "#00dfc0"}, headerTintColor: "#3a5864"}} /> 
        <Stack.Screen name="Change Password" component={ChangePwd} options={{headerStyle: {backgroundColor: "#e5322b"}, headerTintColor: "white"}} />
      </Stack.Navigator>
    </>  
      )
  }
  
  const AuthStack = () => {
    return (
      <>
        <Stack.Navigator>
          <Stack.Screen name="Welcome" component={Welcome} options={{headerStyle: {backgroundColor: "#1b4152"}, headerTintColor: "white"}} /> 
          <Stack.Screen name="Signin" component={Signin} options={{headerStyle: {backgroundColor: "#5549ab"}, headerTintColor: "white"}} />
          <Stack.Screen name="Signup" component={Signup} options={{headerStyle: {backgroundColor: "#26dec0"}, headerTintColor: "#35474f"}} /> 
          <Stack.Screen name="Verify Phone Number" component={VerifyPhone} options={{headerStyle: {backgroundColor: "#d268cc"}, headerTintColor: "white"}} />
          <Stack.Screen name="Logged Out" component={LoggedOut} options={{headerStyle: {backgroundColor: "#5a6e7f"}, headerTintColor: "white"}} />
       </Stack.Navigator> 
      </>
      )
  }
  
  return (
    <NavigationContainer style={styles.root}>
      <StatusBar style="light" />
      {isAuthenticated ? <AppStack /> : <AuthStack />}
    </NavigationContainer>
  ) 
}
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  1. Chosen as BEST ANSWER
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    somehow managed to solve the error by registering AppStack as a screen in AuthStack and also registering AuthStack as screen in AppStack like this:

    const AppStack = () => {
    return (
      <>
      <Stack.Navigator>
        <Stack.Screen name="Home" component={Home} options={{headerStyle: {backgroundColor: "#000"}, headerTintColor: "white"}} />
        <Stack.Screen name="Forgot Password" component={ForgotPwd} options={{headerStyle: {backgroundColor: "#2a454e"}, headerTintColor: "white"}} />
        <Stack.Screen name="Check Your Inbox" component={ForgotPwdNext} options={{headerStyle: {backgroundColor: "#00dfc0"}, headerTintColor: "#3a5864"}} /> 
        <Stack.Screen name="Change Password" component={ChangePwd} options={{headerStyle: {backgroundColor: "#e5322b"}, headerTintColor: "white"}} />
        <Stack.Screen name="AuthStack" component={AuthStack} />
      </Stack.Navigator>
    </>  
      )
  }

    NOTE THE LAST SCREEN IN AppStack ABOVE

    And same with the AppStack

    const AuthStack = () => {
    return (
      <>
        <Stack.Navigator>
          <Stack.Screen name="Welcome" component={Welcome} options={{headerStyle: {backgroundColor: "#1b4152"}, headerTintColor: "white"}} /> 
          <Stack.Screen name="Signin" component={Signin} options={{headerStyle: {backgroundColor: "#5549ab"}, headerTintColor: "white"}} />
          <Stack.Screen name="Signup" component={Signup} options={{headerStyle: {backgroundColor: "#26dec0"}, headerTintColor: "#35474f"}} /> 
          <Stack.Screen name="Verify Phone Number" component={VerifyPhone} options={{headerStyle: {backgroundColor: "#d268cc"}, headerTintColor: "white"}} />
          <Stack.Screen name="Logged Out" component={LoggedOut} options={{headerStyle: {backgroundColor: "#5a6e7f"}, headerTintColor: "white"}} />
          <Stack.Screen name="AppStack" component={AppStack} />
       </Stack.Navigator> 
      </>
      )
  }

    But now the problem is i am getting 2 navigation headers When i switch between screens which are in different stacks i mean if i go from one screen to another which are both in same stack then 2 headers doesn't appear, 2 headers only appear when i go from a screen which is in suppose Stack-A to Stack-B


  2. 0

    You cannot navigate from Signin to Home. You can only navigate between screens that share a parent navigator or grandfather if you have nested navigators. Here is a quote from the doc talking about this specific navigator they created:

    Said another way, we can only navigate to routes that have been defined on our navigator — we cannot navigate to an arbitrary component

    The common way is to have a way to change isAuthenticated to true in Signin instead of navigating, and the below condition in App.js will do the job. For that you can pass a state setter from App to Signin using a context for example.

    {isAuthenticated ? <AppStack /> : <AuthStack />}
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  3. 0

    This exact problem is addressed here.

    Your AuthStack doesn’t know anything about AppStack and vice versa. Hence navigation.navigate("Home") from AuthStack will fail.

    When isAuthenticated is changed React Navigation will automatically navigate to correct screen. This is possible when isAuthenticated state is managed globally using React Context (or by using any state management library like Redux, Zustand etc).

    Check this official example which more or less resembles your authentication flow.

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