Edoardo Dusi

The perfect CI/CD React Native pipeline with Fastlane

What if you could automate your entire React Native release process? This talk shows you how with Fastlane and GitHub Actions.

The perfect CI/CD React Native pipeline with Fastlane
#1about 7 minutes

Understanding the challenges of native mobile development

React Native was created to bring declarative UI and a single codebase to the hostile native environment of separate SDKs, tooling, and deployment processes.

#2about 5 minutes

Navigating the essential tooling for React Native builds

Building a React Native app requires understanding platform-specific languages like Swift and Kotlin, build tools like CocoaPods and Gradle, and bundlers like Metro.

#3about 5 minutes

Introducing Fastlane to automate mobile app builds

Fastlane is an open-source tool that simplifies and automates the entire build, signing, and release process for iOS and Android applications from the command line.

#4about 7 minutes

Automating iOS builds and certificate management with Match

Use Fastlane's Match tool to securely store and share iOS certificates and provisioning profiles in a Git repository, avoiding manual sharing across teams.

#5about 4 minutes

Deploying iOS apps directly to TestFlight with Fastlane

A dedicated Fastlane lane can automatically increment the build number, build a production-signed IPA, and upload it directly to App Store Connect for TestFlight distribution.

#6about 4 minutes

Automating Android builds and deployment with Fastlane

Fastlane acts as a powerful wrapper for Gradle, allowing you to automate Android versioning, signing, and uploading of production bundles (AAB) to the Play Store.

#7about 6 minutes

Integrating Fastlane into a GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline

Use custom GitHub Actions to run your Fastlane lanes in a remote CI/CD environment, managing secrets and automating builds for both iOS and Android on every release.

#8about 2 minutes

Exploring advanced Fastlane features and adopting GitOps

Beyond builds, Fastlane can manage Git commits and tags, run tests, and handle metadata, enabling a full GitOps workflow for mobile development.

#9about 13 minutes

Q&A on developer journey and Fastlane resources

The speaker discusses their career path from backend to mobile development, favorite childhood games, and recommends resources for learning more about Fastlane.

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