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title: "Building a Modern Navigation Library: The Hard Parts"
description: "Satyajit Sahoo will share the decisions and trade-offs behind React Navigation 8 and building a modern cross-platform navigation library."
url: https://www.callstack.com/events/building-a-modern-navigation-library-the-hard-parts
updated: 2026-11-09T14:05:42.337Z
---

# Building a Modern Navigation Library: The Hard Parts

Satyajit Sahoo will share the decisions and trade-offs behind React Navigation 8 and building a modern cross-platform navigation library.

_Talk · 9/24/2026, 11:30 AM - 11:55 AM [CEST] · Paris, France · Category: React Native_

Organizer: React Native Connection

Speakers: Satyajit Sahoo (Software Engineer @ Callstack)

[Event page](https://reactnativeconnection.io/)

In this talk, Satya will showcase React Navigation 8 and cover the considerations and challenges involved in building it for a modern audience.

These include the decisions behind the Static API, choosing native or custom primitives, building a type-safe API for complex navigation trees, working with React features such as startTransition and Activity, and handling conceptual differences in cross-platform code.

Combining developer experience, cross-platform support, and modern features is a lot to take on. The talk provides a glimpse into those challenges.