React Native CodePush updates not received when integrating into different app

Question

I have two iOS apps:

1. An app that I created as a React Native project using react-native init and then integrated CodePush following these instructions.
2. An existing iOS app that I want to integrate React Native and CodePush into. This app uses the same CodePush deployment key as app #1.

When I push a CodePush update from the CLI, app #1 gets the update but app #2 doesn't.

Answer 1

Turns out this is because CodePush was filtering the update to the app version of app #1. Because app #2 was an existing app, the app version number was much greater than app #1, so it wasn't getting the CodePush updates. The simple fix was to specify a wildcard targetBinaryVersion when deploying:

code-push release-react my-ios-app ios --targetBinaryVersion *

More details about targetBinaryVersion here.