@novacraft-engineering/pulsar-code-push

The React Native client for Pulsar — over-the-air JavaScript updates for your app, no app-store review.

This is a full CodePush client (native iOS + Android modules), not a wrapper. It is a fork of @revopush/react-native-code-push — itself the New-Architecture-maintained continuation of Microsoft's original react-native-code-push (archived March 2025). It speaks the CodePush protocol, so it works against any CodePush-compatible server; it defaults to Pulsar.

Install

yarn add @novacraft-engineering/pulsar-code-push
cd ios && pod install

Autolinking registers the native module on both platforms (RN 0.70+, New Architecture supported).

Point it at Pulsar

iOS — ios/<App>/Info.plist:

<key>CodePushDeploymentKey</key>
<string>YOUR_DEPLOYMENT_KEY</string>
<key>CodePushServerURL</key>
<string>https://api.pulsar.novacraft.africa</string>

Android — android/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml:

<resources>
  <string moduleConfig="true" name="CodePushDeploymentKey">YOUR_DEPLOYMENT_KEY</string>
  <string moduleConfig="true" name="CodePushServerURL">https://api.pulsar.novacraft.africa</string>
</resources>

Deployment keys are shown per app in the Pulsar dashboard.

Wrap your root component

import codePush from '@novacraft-engineering/pulsar-code-push';

function App() { /* … */ }

export default codePush({
  checkFrequency: codePush.CheckFrequency.MANUAL,
  installMode: codePush.InstallMode.ON_NEXT_RESTART,
})(App);

The full CodePush API is available — codePush.sync(), codePush.checkForUpdate(), SyncStatus, InstallMode, CheckFrequency, notifyAppReady(), rollout %, mandatory updates, binary-version targeting, differential updates, automatic rollback, and download/install telemetry (reported to Pulsar).

Releasing

Use the Pulsar CLI (@novacraft-engineering/pulsar-cli):

npx pulsar release MyApp Staging --platform ios --target 1.0.0

License

MIT. Original CodePush © Microsoft; RevoPush fork © Revopush; this Pulsar distribution © Novacraft Engineering. See LICENSE.