React Native ScrollView - How to scroll to a child component from another child component button?

Question

I have this structure with a ScrollView, which is a parent with 5 childs

Parent Component with ScrollView

• Component1
• Component2
• Component3
• Component4
• Component5

Inside Component3 I have a button that when pressed should scroll parent component ScrollView to Component5

Something like this

Home (Parent)

export default class Home extends React.Component {      
    renderComments() {
        return this.state.dataSource.map(item =>
            <CommentDetail key={item.id} comment={item} />
        );
    }

    render() {
        return (
            <ScrollView>      
                <Component1 />
                <Component2 />
                <CentralElements  {...this.state.dataSource} scroll = {this.props.scroll} />
                <Component4 />                  
                <View>
                    {this.renderComments()}
                </View>
            </ScrollView>
        );
    }
}

CentralElements (Component3)

export default class CentralElements extends React.Component {
    constructor(props) {
        super(props);
    }
  
    goToComments= () => {
        this.props.scroll.scrollTo({x: ?, y: ?, animated: true});
     };

    render() {
        return (
            <ScrollView horizontal={true}>
                <TouchableOpacity onPress={this.goToComments}>
                    <Image source={require('../../assets/image.png')} />
                    <Text>Comments</Text>
                </TouchableOpacity>
                ...
                </TouchableOpacity>
            </ScrollView>
        );
    }
};

And the Comments are the Component5, any idea on how to the parent scroll? I trying to figure what I'm missing, since thats my first contact with this.

Answer 1

What i did was..
in component5 I call onLayout in the main view and then save x and y in the parent component. To scroll to it in component 3 on click i call the parent function that uses the scrollview ref to scroll to the values stored before

Component5

    export default class Component5 extends Component {

    saveLayout() {
        this.view.measureInWindow((x, y, width, height) => {
            this.props.callParentFunction(x, y)
        })
    }
    render() {
        return (
            <View ref={ref => this.view = ref} onLayout={() => this.saveLayout()}>

            </View>
        )
    }
}

Component3

export default class Component3 extends Component {

    render() {
        return (
            <View >
                <TouchableOpacity onPress={()=>{this.props.goToComponent5()}}>

                </TouchableOpacity>
            </View>
        )
    }
}

Parent:

export default class Parent extends Component {
constructor(props) {
this.goToComponent5=this.goToComponent5.bind(this)
    super(props)
    this.state = {
        x:0,
        y:0,
    }
}

    callParentFunction(x, y) {
        this.setState({ x, y })
    }

    goToComponent5(){
        this.ScrollView.scrollTo({x: this.state.x, y: this.state.y, animated: true});
    }

    render() {
        return (
            <View >
                <ScrollView ref={ref => this.ScrollView = ref}>
                    <Component1 />
                    <Component2 />
                    <Component3 goToComponent5={this.goToComponent5}/>
                    <Component4 />
                    <Component5 callParentFunction={this.callParentFunction}/>
                </ScrollView>
            </View>
        )
    }
}