Any way to get version's of the app to distinguish each publish?

Expo SDK
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Is there any thing like codePush.getUpdateMetadata to get the current loaded version of the published app?
https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-code-push/blob/master/docs/api-js.md#codepushgetupdatemetadata

2

I’m not sure if this accomplishes what you’re looking for but you can require('package.json') and then do something like

import React from 'react';
import { StyleSheet, Text, View } from 'react-native';

let pkg = require('./package.json');

export default class App extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <View style={styles.container}>
        <Text>{pkg.version}</Text>
      </View>
    );
  }
}

Does that meet your needs?

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3

This simply display the version defined in the package.json file right? I’m looking for something that will manage updating version itself after each exp publish.

4

We don’t have anything exactly like that right now, but you can request it here:

The code delivery system is one of the things we want to improve soon!

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5

Expo already handles updating the app to the latest version on a fresh start (when the app was not already running).

I needed to also have it check when the user comes back to our app and the app was already in the background, so I came up with this:

let isReloading = false;
async function reloadIfUpdateAvailable () {
  const {id,sdkVersion,revisionId} = Expo.Constants.manifest;
  if (!revisionId) return;

  const res = await fetch(`https://expo.io/${id}/index.exp`, {
    headers: {
    'Exponent-SDK-Version': sdkVersion,
    'Exponent-Platform': Platform.OS,
    },
    method: 'GET',
  });

  const json = await res.json();
  if (!json.revisionId) return;

  if (json.sdkVersion === sdkVersion) {
    if (json.revisionId !== revisionId) {
      if (!isReloading) {
        isReloading = true;
        Expo.Util.reload();
      }
    }
  }
  
}

I call reloadIfUpdateAvailable() when our app comes to the foreground from the background, and has been backgrounded for more than 3 seconds. Its a bit more complicated than just listening to AppState’s change event, since an active state is not sufficient alone. The app can go to inactive and back to active when a dialog/prompt pops up etc, plus you need to have a way to get the “time in background” number.

Hope this helps if you are trying to do something similar!

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6

Cool! Thanks @joenoon.

8

Thanks @joenoon, pretty solution, it help me a lot

9

Constants.manifest.revisionId is combination of the app version and JS bundle ID. Perfect for my needs.