Shipping React Native Updates Without the App Store: A Practical Guide to OTA and React Native Stallion

You know the feeling. There's a typo in production copy. A misconfigured feature flag. A small logic bug that snuck past QA somehow. None of it touches native code. It's pure JavaScript, the kind of fix you could push in five minutes if the universe were fair. But the universe isn't fair, and so you wait. You wait for Apple. You wait for the Play Store staged rollout. Hours go by. Sometimes days. All for a one-line change. This is the gap OTA updates were built to fill. In this article I want to