React Native is a powerful framework for building mobile, desktop and even web applications, and with its CLI you can run a development version of a mobile app in an emulator or connected physical device almost with zero conf. Unfortunately, when you want to build and deploy for production, deal with code signing, certificates and keys, and share the development process across your team, it doesn’t offer a solution out of the box, and you still need to use platform-specific IDEs like Xcode and Android Studio.

But there’s an open source tool that fills this gap and provides a complete automation for the whole process, starting from the development build to the signed production bundle: Fastlane.

In this talk I will show you our Fastlane setup that lets us operate on cross-platform React Native projects as a team, integrate the CI/CD with GitHub Actions, and do almost everything from the CLI.