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Re:Why Discord Is Sticking with React Native by victoriasun on Thursday July 26, 2018 @05:10PM (#17621160)
Apple allows updates to Javascript outside of the review process as long as it subscribes to certain guidelines (1), including but not limited to: not changing core feature functionality, being limited to bug fixes, and also that the app doesn't provide unlimited access to native SDK or system functions. React Native provides a limited API to js code so it's fine.

As far as your second question, we simply deploy store logic that loads a Modal telling our users that they must relaunch the app.

[1] https://microsoft.github.io/code-push/faq/index.html#1-does-...

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Re:Why Discord Is Sticking with React Native by saagarjha on Thursday July 26, 2018 @05:21PM (#17621286)
How do you convey "relaunch the app" to your users? I'm sure many of them think that pressing the home button is the same as killing your app.
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Re:Why Discord Is Sticking with React Native by victoriasun on Thursday July 26, 2018 @05:29PM (#17621379)
Since OTA updates can only impact JS, we can offer a button that essentially calls something like `window.refresh` and it reloads the JS bundle within the container. We actually recently leveraged ErrorBoundaries in React 16 to do something similar in our app as well.
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