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yomansattoday at 6:46 PM1 replyview on HN

How often do you need to push app updates in practice? In theory that's a one-off deployment on the app-stores.


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lerostoday at 7:16 PM

There's usually some random mandatory updates I have to do about 1-2 times a year, so you need updates even with no development.

My React-Native wrapper app handles native auth and native payments, so I occasionally need to tweak that, but it's rare.

I'm considering a rewrite in Capacitor so I can change those things without modifying the mobile app. It's not that releasing the mobile app is a big deal, but it's that it can take many weeks for users to update the mobile app, so I have to keep the website backwards compatible with the old mobile app. It makes testing new checkout flows and stuff more difficult.