Setup Continuous Integration with React Native

Learn to Use Visual Studio App Center to Automatically Build and Distribute Your React Native App

If you’ve worked on production web projects in the past you likely have experience with continuous integration. Push to the staging branch and it automatically goes to the staging server!

But what about for the React Native project? If you’re anything like me you’ve probably just done it all by hand — you don’t release that often anyways, right? But by setting up a CI system you can ship updates more often and with less (zero) effort on your part.

To do this we’ll be using Visual Studio App Center. It’s a tool developed by Microsoft that does a host of things. Today we’ll be setting up a build and distribution process.