Shipping in the open means writing in the open. Sometimes these are useful. Sometimes they're just us yelling about binaries.
A 20MB bundle becomes a 200KB patch. No magic — just good old bsdiff, a little zstd, and a lot of care around chunk boundaries.
Rollback isn't just 'serve the old bundle'. It's a choreographed dance between the SDK, the edge, and a very angry crash counter.
We spent two weeks on this so you don't have to. The architecture detection trick, the runtime hotpatch, and why we ship both.
A retrospective on the tool that taught a generation of RN devs that OTA updates are possible — and the incentives that made it impossible for Microsoft to keep it alive.
The deployment platform for React Native. Ship updates, skip the App Store.
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