NavigatorProvider Edit

The NavigatorProvider component allows rendering nested views/panels/menus (via the NavigatorScreen component) and navigate between these different states (via the NavigatorButton and NavigatorBackButton components or the useNavigator hook). The Global Styles sidebar is an example of this.

import {
  __experimentalNavigatorProvider as NavigatorProvider,
  __experimentalNavigatorScreen as NavigatorScreen,
  __experimentalNavigatorButton as NavigatorButton,
  __experimentalNavigatorBackButton as NavigatorBackButton,
} from '@wordpress/components';

const MyNavigation = () => (
  <NavigatorProvider initialPath="/">
    <NavigatorScreen path="/">
      <p>This is the home screen.</p>
       <NavigatorButton path="/child">
         Navigate to child screen.
      </NavigatorButton>
    </NavigatorScreen>

    <NavigatorScreen path="/child">
      <p>This is the child screen.</p>
      <NavigatorBackButton>
        Go back
      </NavigatorBackButton>
    </NavigatorScreen>
  </NavigatorProvider>
);

The component accepts the following props:

The initial active path.

• Required: No

You can retrieve a navigator instance by using the useNavigator hook.

The navigator instance has a few properties:

The goTo function allows navigating to a given path. The second argument can augment the navigation operations with different options.

The available options are:

• focusTargetSelector: string. An optional property used to specify the CSS selector used to restore focus on the matching element when navigating back.

The goBack function allows navigating to the previous path.

The location object represent the current location, and has a few properties:

• path: string. The path associated to the location.
• isBack: boolean. A flag that is true when the current location was reached by navigating backwards in the location stack.
• isInitial: boolean. A flag that is true only for the first (root) location in the location stack.