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[byronigoe]

Great news! I've got an alternative working!

Cordova Plugin

The official cordova-plugin-code-push supports pointing to a different server:
<preference name="CodePushServerUrl" value="http://your-server.com/" />
Just in case I will need to fix bugs, I will maintain my own fork:
https://github.com/byronigoe/cordova-plugin-code-push

CodePush Server

@shm-open created https://github.com/shm-open/code-push-server
With the help of Google Translate and the documentation for Pug and Redis, I was able to get it working.
I will continue to maintain this English version, and submit PRs to upstream when possible:
https://github.com/byronigoe/code-push-server

CodePush CLI

I have not needed to modify the CLI yet, but in order to guarantee interoperability with future backend changes, I'm using my fork:
https://github.com/byronigoe/code-push-cli

[josiahbryan]

AWESOME!!!! Thank you SO MUCH for doing this - I will try it out right now. My company was about to launch two Apps that depend on CodePush - and we were crushed to find it going way. Hope this works!! Will help however I can!

[raphjutras]

Wow, good job @byronigoe . A lot of commit to fix things and translate..! I will be following your fork closely!

[IllusionVK]

Hey @byronigoe thanks for posting this and spending the time to share with us all.. its great news and what I was hoping for... i'm not a developer myself and all of my team have been heavily tied up on Covid-19 responses, so we haven't been able to spend the time like you have so far... but its great news and just what I thought/hoped might be possible. I think the most work for the future will actually be on making sure that the clients for iOS and Android are kept up to date, as they will be the most likely to break in the future I think.

Legally I think everything is MIT, so I think we are all good there to be able to keep using everything.

hey and @josiahbryan have you been able to setup your own server and try things out ? I'm very keen to document things well to help other people easily adopt things, so it would be good to hear your experience. And @byronigoe will you be open for PRs to your forks if I were to submit some changes to readme files, wikis etc ? I'm also wondering if others like @dylanvdmerwe have seen this post ?

[byronigoe]

Yes, I welcome PRs. I'm still setting up my production deployment, and have continued improving the documentation as I go.

[raphjutras]

@byronigoe I've tried installing it, it's running and listening on port 3000 (fine).
Although, I haven't found any way to access a dashboard/admin panel.
I've tried login-in with "admin / 123456", it works fine but it only leads me to a page to generate a Token.
Token gets generated and I can copy it and then it says that we must use it in the command window?

Is the administration CLI-only or there is a web dashboard to manage the app and releases? (can't find how to access it)

Thanks

[byronigoe]

For now it's CLI-only, but the web services are simple enough that you could make web pages if you prefer. However, the services are RESTful, and the authentication token needs to be included in the header of all requests. Therefore, for administration web pages it might be better to either create a Single-Page Application (e.g. Angular or React), or to use cookies.

[raphjutras]

Okay, thanks for the answer @byronigoe !
I'm currently playing with the CLI, not very user-friendly but it works..!

I thought there was an admin UI like Appcenter.. maybe it was a dream 😅

[raphjutras]

I was looking for a UI, this might be worth checking: https://adtmag.com/articles/2016/11/01/react-native-ota.aspx

https://github.com/electrode-io/electrode-ota-server

[gwhenne]

@byronigoe , I'm experimenting with integrating this with VoltBuilder. It would help if there was a npm entry for cordova-plugin-code-push. Is that on your list, or can we help with a PR?

[byronigoe]

@gwhenne Thus far I have not needed to modify the Cordova plugin, so for now you can use the existing NPM listing: https://www.npmjs.com/package/cordova-plugin-code-push

[VaibhavFuke]

I am also trying this out. Can you please make a video of setting this whole up. If data is being exposed via. cli. I could help build the UI panel just like appcenter using angular

[byronigoe]

@VaibhavFuke I have improved the documentation in my forks, and that should be sufficient.

[shadowfish07]

Hi guys,have you managed to deploy the code push server and implement hot updates ? I have deployed the code push server, but it doesn't work on my android device, it says An error has occurred while installing the package.

[byronigoe]

Yes, I have it working. Use Chrome debugging to see what URL it is using, and any further console messages.