I want to reset the state (back to initial state) in a functional component when navigated via navigation.navigate()
.
Say a user navigates to an A
screen and some state is set, then they click a button on that screen and navigate to a B
screen via navigation.navigate('B
);`
The problem Im having appears when the user clicks another button to go back to the A
screen (again via navigation.navigate('A');
). The A
component at this point is still holding all the state from its initial mount. I want the state to be reset to the initial state for the A
component so users have to start whatever process over again from the beginning.
Is there a way to accomplish this? I attempted some half measure of listening for that navigation back and resetting the state with a bunch of set
hooks, but it feels wrong and does not work very well.
Edit:
Someone asked for a code sample, so a quick example is below. The problem is; if someone navigates to component A
and clicks the button that calls setInput
which makes text appear above the buttons, they then click the other button labeled Go To B
which react navigation takes them to component B
. If they then proceed and click Go To A
and are then navigated back to component A
, component A
will still have the input
state equal to Hello
. I want it to be reset back to an empty string (hopefully without having to call setInput("")
.
import React, { useState } from "react";import {Center, Button, Text} from "native-base";const A = ({ route, navigation }) => { const [input, setInput] = useState(""); return (<Center><Text>{input}</Text><Button onPress=(() => { setInput("Hello") })>Click Me For Words</Button><Button onPress=(() => { navigation.navigate("B") })>Go To B</Button></Center> );};const B = ({ route, navigation }) => { return (<Center><Button onPress=(() => { navigation.navigate("A") })>Go To A</Button></Center> );};