how to solve Property 'navigation' does not exist on type 'Readonly<{}> &

Question

I have the following two pieces of code:

CustomHeader.tsx

import { View, StyleSheet, Button } from 'react-native';
import { NavigationScreenProps } from 'react-navigation';
import Icon from 'react-native-vector-icons/Ionicons';


export  const CustomHeader = ({ navigation }: NavigationScreenProps) => (
    <View style={[styles.container]}>
      <Icon
        name="md-menu"
        size={32}
        color="black"
        style={{ marginLeft: 10 }}
        onPress={() => navigation.openDrawer()}
      />
    </View>
  );

  const styles = StyleSheet.create({
    container: {
      borderBottomWidth: 2,
      height: 70,
      paddingTop: 20,
    },
  });

DetailScreen.tsx

import React from 'react';
import { Text, View, Button, Alert } from 'react-native';
import { NavigationScreenProps } from "react-navigation";
import { CustomHeader } from '../components/Header';

export class ChangeAccountDetailScreen extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <View style={{ flex: 1 }}>
        <CustomHeader navigation={this.props.navigation} />
        <Text style={{ fontSize: 20 }}>Profile Screen</Text>
      </View>
    );
  }
}

In detailscreen i get the following error:

Property 'navigation' does not exist on type 'Readonly<{}> & Readonly<{ children?: ReactNode; }>'.

I searched for the issue and i understand it has something the fact that i am not declaring a type in my CustomHeader. However i do not know how to solve this. I am kinda new to typescript. Could someone explain to me how to fix this type issue?

Answer 1

Another way to solve this is to import ReactNode from react and tell the component it's type as ReactNode.

import React,{ReactNode} from 'react'

const GetStarted:ReactNode = ({navigation})=>{
return(
   <View> </View>
)
}

Answer 2

More modern answer is to use useNavigation as explained in https://reactnavigation.org/docs/connecting-navigation-prop/

import * as React from 'react';
import { Button } from 'react-native';
import { useNavigation } from '@react-navigation/native';

function GoToButton({ screenName }) {
  const navigation = useNavigation();

  return (
    <Button
      title={`Go to ${screenName}`}
      onPress={() => navigation.navigate(screenName)}
    />
  );
}