Expo: Managing multiple environments for an app

[brentvatne]

From Slack:

What is common practice to handle different environments with expo, i.e.

1) ~Run in DEV mode for expo client~ (you can do this with Expo.Constants.AppOwnership
2) Build in STAGING mode to publish up in test flight
3) Build in RELEASE mode to publish in app store

how would these be configured in app.json and available as globals within the app?

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Currently the only way to release to different environments is by having a slug for each environment (or user) and changing the slug in exp.json (eg: slug myapp-staging). It would be better to have first class support for different deployment environments.

[anp]

Moved to a canny request: https://expo.canny.io/feature-requests/p/support-multiple-release-channels

[oliverbenns]

I wrote a bash script to handle this: https://github.com/oliverbenns/expo-deploy

[ChrisWphoto]

exp-deploy-cli This also looks promising.