Expo Version number not updated on OTA updates

[wodin]

Hi @nicolas_k . Not sure if this helps:

App.json version; can I just mirror the version in package.json?

I have this little script that makes use of the json library, updates the expo version every time the npm version is updated (via npm version) "version": "json -I -f ./app.json -e 'this.expo.version=\"'$npm_package_version'\"'", I find it easier to keep track of things when I mirror the version.

Based on the comments in that thread I think the version from app.json is not updated in the app for OTA updates.

See also this comment from @llamaluvr:

Incrementing and identifying version and build

Whether this is the “best” practice is in the eyes of the beholder, but what I’ve ended up doing is keeping a separate version number just for my JavaScript bundle. I have a simple file called build.json that has a single property: { "jsBuildNumber": 1 } Then, I have a node.js script that wraps expo publish, incrementing the build number just before publishing: const shell = require('shelljs'); const jsonfile = require('jsonfile'); const file = 'build.json'; const data = jsonfile.readFileS…