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Upgrades

Upgrading​

It's important to stay up-to-date with React Native updates. Luckily, we can bank on Expo having done this work for us. If you're letting Expo manage your native code for you, just run the following:

npx expo install expo@latest
npx expo install --fix

And that's it! If you've added native dependencies outside the Expo ecosystem, you'll want to run prebuild again:

npx expo prebuild --clean --no-install

And finally, if you're managing native code yourself, check out these tools:

It's less important to keep your Ignite app updated, but you might want to keep pace with Infinite Red's latest changes. To do that, @nirre7 built an amazing tool:

  • ignite-diff-purge To help you see the diffs between different versions. The first diff is from 5.4.1 (ignite-bowser) and then continues with Ignite CLI boilerplate
  • ignite-expo-diff-purge To help you see the diffs between different versions. The first diff is from 5.4.1 (ignite-bowser with Expo) and then continues with Ignite CLI boilerplate with Expo
  • ignite-bowser-diff-purge To help you see the diffs between different versions of the old ignite-bowser boilerplate