Deploy beta to TestFlight using env.staging

[felipepalazzo]

I want to deploy a Beta version to TestFlight using the env variables in .env.staging. I have the following script in my packge.json:

"start:staging": "APP_ENV=staging react-native start",

If I run yarn start:staging in my terminal and, after that, npx react-native run-ios, it opens the ios simulator and it's using the staging variables as expected.

Going to Xcode and doing the process to deploy to TestFlight, i.e. Product > Archive > and so on, it always builds with the .env file.

Is there a way to do that?

[felipepalazzo]

Just complementing my question above, I understand that Release == production and Debug == development, so I'm assuming that's no way to build in Xcode using env.staging (or anything other than env.development / env.production)

[goatandsheep]

no there's a couple options. The option I recommend is using schemes (https://shockoe.com/ideas/development/how-to-setup-configurations-and-schemes-in-xcode/). Basically you can specify your NODE_ENV in your build process.

If that doesn't work for whatever reason, you can do the same thing but add APP_ENV (there's some docs on this in teh readme)

[goatandsheep]

there's a couple options. The option I recommend is using schemes (https://shockoe.com/ideas/development/how-to-setup-configurations-and-schemes-in-xcode/). Basically you can specify your NODE_ENV in your build process.

If that doesn't work for whatever reason, you can do the same thing but add APP_ENV (there's some docs on this in teh readme)

[felipejh]

@felipepalazzo how did you solve your problem? I've been trying it but with no success.
I've configurate the schemes. Did you created environment variables?

[goatandsheep]

Can you attach a test environment? I'm unable to recreate it not working.