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 walk through what OTA actually means in React Native land, why everything changed in 2024, and how to get up and running with React Native Stallion, which is probably the most interesting CodePush replacement to come out of that whole mess. What OTA Updates Actually Are (and Aren't) A React Native app is really two things in a trench coat. There's the native shell, which is your APK or IPA with all its Java, Kotlin, Objective-C and Swift.…