With Expo Updates, we can publish updates to the app without having to go through the app stores. This is great for quick fixes and small updates. However, if we want to publish a new version of the app, we need to go through the app stores (see the Publishing guide).
You can find the Expo documentation here for more information.
We built a custom script to make it easier to publish updates. You can run the script eas:update to publish an update to the app.
The script will ask you for which environment you want to publish the update to (e.g. Testing or Production) and for a description of the update (e.g. "Fixing the login issue"), which will be helpful to know what was changed in the update when looking at the EAS dashboard.