If you are building a new app or boilerplate in 2026 and use React Navigation, please use the Static API. We have done a lot of work to reduce boilerplate further and improve TypeSafety in React Navigation 8. Unless you really need to build the list of screens dynamically at runtime, you'll likely find that the Static API can do everything you need. If you remember the Static API from React Navigation 4 and earlier, the new Static API is very different. It's built on the dynamic core that React Navigation 5 brought, so it has a lot of dynamism built-in. The static parts are only constrained by what we need to make type inference and deep linking automatic.

@reactnavigation Is it different in performance?

@sssajjad007 @reactnavigation The only thing I want to hear

@lowkhieyed @sssajjad007 There won't be any noticeable performance differences. They are just different APIs, not different implementations.