Expo · B2B · tools for building React Native apps
Let users put their app in TestFlight with one command
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What they did
Expo released an npm testflight command: run it in an Expo project and it walks the user through every step to put the app in TestFlight, so they never deal with provisioning profiles or distribution certificates. Aimed at vibe coders and developers stuck on the last mile to the App Store.
In their words
Sub Club by RevenueCat · Building Apps Faster: How AI and React Native are Changing the Game – Charlie Cheever, Expo“Like we just released a module not that long ago called like npm-testflight where you can basically in an Expo project run npm testflight, and it'll just like walk you through all the steps and put it in TestFlight”
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