The complete guide to build and deploy your React Native application using GitHub Actions
So you’ve been working on your shiny new React Native app for months, and now you’re ready to deploy it and share it with the public. You could do this manually for every release, but you’ve decided to do it the smart way and use a CI/CD pipeline to automate this tedious process.
In this guide I’m going to walk you through every aspect of creating an automated build pipeline using GitHub Actions both for Android and iOS, as well as generating the required signing certificates. The commands I’ll be using are executed on Linux, but they should work on MacOS as well without any changes. For Windows I’d recommend WSL.
To follow along with this guide you need to have a React Native application (if you’re using Expo, you need to eject) with its source code hosted on GitHub, and I assume you have already set up a Google Play developer account and an Apple Developer account.
Also, you should have already created the applications with the corresponding bundle IDs in App Store Connect and Google Play Console.
