React native Stack navigation how to use 'replace' in Stack action

Question

I want to use the replace method in Stack Actions in react navigation v2, but I'm not quite sure how I've looked at the specification here, https://reactnavigation.org/docs/en/stack-actions.html but I can't get it to work.

import { StackActions, NavigationActions } from 'react-navigation';

const resetAction = StackActions.reset({

key:,
newKey:
routeName:

});
this.props.navigation.dispatch(resetAction);

I guess it's gotta be in some above format, but i'm not sure what has to go in to the parameters. Can anyone give me a working example?

Answer 1

Are you trying to reset or to replace?

• Use "Reset" when you want to erase all stack and create a new one. for example when deep linking to a certain path.
• Use "Replace" when you want to replace a specific element in the stack. for example you want to this.props.navigation.goBack() and navigate to a different route than where you came from