How SWSH turned 300 monthly builds into a release pipeline nobody has to babysit
"Expo's ecosystem helped us take human error and effort out of the release process, from a local build to a validated release." — Nathan Ahn, CTO, SWSH You've shipped a mobile app before, so you know the drill: cut the builds, wrestle with signing credentials, submit to two different app stores, then hope nothing regressed on the way out. Do that by hand often enough and one of those steps…
SWSH, a social photo-sharing app, has streamlined its release pipeline so much that it processes 300 builds per month without requiring any human intervention. The team uses Expo's ecosystem to automate the entire process, from local builds to validated releases. They run native builds for iOS, the App Clip, and Android, and test them using an end-to-end testing framework called Meridian. The team can release changes to JavaScript-only fixes immediately without waiting for a store review.
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