CodePush is a cloud service that enables Cordova and React Native developers to deploy mobile app updates directly to their users' devices. It works by acting as a central repository that developers can publish updates to (JS, HTML, CSS and images), and that apps can query for updates from (using provided client SDK for Cordova and React Native). This allows you to have a more deterministic and direct engagement model with your userbase, when addressing bugs and/or adding small features that don't require you to re-build a binary and re-distribute it through the respective app stores. A JavaScript library for programmatically managing your CodePush account (e.g. creating apps, promoting releases), which allows authoring Node.js-based build and/or deployment scripts, without needing to shell out to the App Center CLI. The code-push module exports a single class (typically referred to as CodePush), which represents a proxy to the CodePush account management REST API.
Features
- You manage most of CodePush's functionality using the App Center CLI
- Add the CodePush client SDK to your app, and configure it to pull app updates from one of your deployments in App Center
- After making changes to your app’s code or assets, publish the update to App Center using the App Center CLI
- Execute the App Center CLI release-cordova command to bundle your app's code and asset files
- All users running your app will receive the update using the experience you configured
- CodePush API usage has a rate limitation of 70 requests per second applied