In this clip from our livestream we discuss the pros and cons of tree-based and stack-based navigation. For tree-based navigation:

• Pros:

  • Concise way of describing navigation

  • Can describe the finite number of paths in your app

  • Feature modules are fully self-contained

  • Easy to test integration

  • Unifies all types of navigation APIs

• Cons:

  • Can’t express complex or recursive navigation paths

  • Couples destinations together

  • Still very buggy in iOS 16

For stack-based navigation:

• Pros:

  • Can handle complex and recursive navigation paths

  • Each screen in the stack can be fully decoupled from the other screens in the stack

  • Way fewer bugs in the iOS 16 APIs

• Cons

  • It is not concise and allows for potentially non-sensical navigation paths.

  • Feature modules become mostly inert when run in isolation since they cannot navigate anywhere else.

  • It is more difficult to integrate features together and test.