Documentation does not show how to make a modal from the view

[heritiermwalila]

The doc does not show how to make a modal from the view, How to make a modal in react native script project from `' ? I could see the prop but how does it work?

[shirakaba]

I don't have an "official" way to do this (I've never tried), but here are some resources:

• Opening a full-screen modal in React Navigation. I can't guarantee what the transition animation will be like, but that's probably the easiest place to start. Problem: the transition might be right-to-left as usual, rather than bottom-to-top (contributions and bug fixes welcomed at the RNS Navigation repo).
• Modal views in NativeScript Core. Really tricky in RNS, though – you'd need to render the target view into a Portal with a null root, forwarding a ref into its base element; then you'd need to make a call like this: mainViewRef.current!.showModal(modalViewRef.current.nativeView, options);
• Alternatively: if you don't need a true navigation stack, you could fake a modal yourself just using AbsoluteLayout to allow you to layer one view over another.

On the NativeScript 8 roadmap also is a "RootLayout" component that would let you create a new layer to draw UI into.