expo-github-action

Publish, build or manage your Expo app with GitHub Actions!

Usage   —   Examples   —   Caveats   —   Changelog

What's inside?

With this Expo action, you have full access to Expo CLI and EAS CLI. It lets you automate the expo publish or eas build commands, leaving you with more time to work on your project. Some additional features are included to make the usage of this action as simple as possible, like caching and authentication.

Configuration options

Create your EXPO_TOKEN GitHub secret.

This action is customizable through variables defined in the action.yml. Here is a summary of all the input options you can use.

variable	default	description
expo-version	-	Expo CLI version to install (skips when omitted)
expo-cache	true	If it should use the GitHub actions cache (read more)
eas-version	-	EAS CLI version to install (skips when omitted)
eas-cache	true	If it should use the GitHub actions cache (read more)
packager	yarn	Package manager to use (e.g. bun, yarn, or npm)
token	-	Token of your Expo account - get your token (use with secrets)
patch-watchers	true	If it should patch the fs.inotify.* limits on Ubuntu (read more)

Example workflows

Before diving into the workflow examples, you should know the basics of GitHub Actions. You can read more about this in the GitHub Actions documentation.

1. Create new EAS Update on push to main
2. Create new EAS build on push to main
3. Create previews on PRs

Create new EAS Update on push to main

This workflow listens to the push event on the main branch. It sets up all required components to publish the app, including authentication with a token.

Always use secrets when using tokens.

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
jobs:
  update:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: 🏗 Setup repo
        uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: 🏗 Setup Node
        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
          node-version: 18.x
          cache: yarn

      - name: 🏗 Setup EAS
        uses: expo/expo-github-action@v8
        with:
          eas-version: latest
          token: ${{ secrets.EXPO_TOKEN }}

      - name: 📦 Install dependencies
        run: yarn install

      - name: 🚀 Create update
        run: eas update --auto --non-interactive

Creating new EAS build on push to main

This action also allows you to install the EAS CLI. To do this, add the eas-version property, and the action will install it. We recommend using latest for the EAS CLI.

The token is shared for both Expo and EAS CLI.

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: 🏗 Setup repo
        uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: 🏗 Setup Node
        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
          node-version: 18.x
          cache: yarn

      - name: 🏗 Setup EAS
        uses: expo/expo-github-action@v8
        with:
          eas-version: latest
          token: ${{ secrets.EXPO_TOKEN }}

      - name: 📦 Install dependencies
        run: yarn install

      - name: 🚀 Build app
        run: eas build --non-interactive

Create previews on PRs

Reviewing pull requests can take some time. The reviewer needs to check out the branch, install the changes, and run the bundler to review the results. You can also automatically publish the project for the reviewer to skip those manual steps.

See the preview docs for more information.

on: [pull_request]
jobs:
  preview:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: 🏗 Setup repo
        uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: 🏗 Setup Node
        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
          node-version: 18.x
          cache: yarn

      - name: 🏗 Setup EAS
        uses: expo/expo-github-action@v8
        with:
          eas-version: latest
          token: ${{ secrets.EXPO_TOKEN }}

      - name: 📦 Install dependencies
        run: yarn install

      - name: 🚀 Create preview
        uses: expo/expo-github-action/preview@v8
        with:
          # `github.event.pull_request.head.ref` is only available on `pull_request` triggers.
          # Use your own, or keep the automatically infered branch name from `--auto`, when using different triggers.
          command: eas update --auto --branch ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.ref }}

Things to know

Automatic Expo login

Some Expo commands, like expo publish and eas build, require you to be authenticated. This action exports the token to ensure you are authenticated in every workflow step.

Note, this action does not store the token anywhere. Each separate workflow job needs to set up the token individually.

Using the built-in cache

You can opt-out from caching the Expo and EAS CLI installations. Under the hood, it uses the @actions/cache package to restore a previous install. It reduces the installation time because it only needs to download and extract a single tar file.

Note, using cache will count towards your repo cache limit. Both the Expo and EAS CLI are stored in different caches.

ENOSPC errors on Linux

Creating new bundles with Metro can be memory intensive. In the past, some builds resulted in ENOSPC errors. To prevent anyone from running into this, we make sure Ubuntu has sensible defaults in terms of file system availability. You can opt-out from patching the file system by setting patch-watchers to false.

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