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user3791980
user3791980

Reputation: 445

Is there a difference between the staging and production env in code push?

I accidentally push the binary with staging key. Is there any real difference between the two stages(in terms of cli / library setting) aside from the obvious naming differences ?

Will I have problem trying to push updates using the staging env?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 5302

Answers (2)

Max Mironov
Max Mironov

Reputation: 121

To answer your question:

Is there any real difference between the two stages(in terms of cli / library setting) aside from the obvious naming differences

I can say - no, there is no difference and its up to you to decide how to build your workflow (although there are some practices in terms of how you can use it e.g. https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-code-push#multi-deployment-testing).

The difference between two of this is more on semantically level and how you will use it depends upon you.

Moreover you can create arbitrary number of deployments if having a staging and production version of your app is enough to meet your needs. You can use code-push deployment add <appName> <deploymentName> for this. Also you can rename/delete deployments if it is needed.

Upvotes: 0

ArchNoob
ArchNoob

Reputation: 4126

Code push Staging deployments are for debug builds (app-debug.apk)s while Production is as you guess, production releases (app-release.apk)s.

Refer to this text on their README here, Saying:

And that's it! Now when you run or build your app, your debug builds will automatically be configured to sync with your Staging deployment, and your release builds will be configured to sync with your Production deployment.

In your case I think you won't have any problems pushing updates with staging env as it a feature but they will be limited to app-debug.apks and not app-release.apk ones.

I would guess you wrote something like

code-push release-react <appName> <platform>

Then it said something like this

Upload progress:[==================================================] 100% 0.0s Successfully released an update containing the "/tmp/CodePush" directory to the "Staging" deployment of the "APP_NAME" app.

This is staging and should be used to test your app in the devices you installed the app-debug.apk bundle so you know how your update is going to work.

If you are okay with it, then you should promote it to the Production builds with

code-push promote APP_NAME_HERE Staging Production

Or Follow this answer here: How to update "Production" deployment using Code Push CLI? to just release an update straight to production builds.

Upvotes: 5

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