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Dashboard

The Expo-Open-OTA Dashboard is a web interface that allows you to:

  • 🔍 View and manage your Expo branches
  • 🔄 Track runtime versions
  • 📦 Monitor and manage OTA updates
  • 🔀 Switch channel-to-branch mappings in one click — useful for instant rollbacks, A/B testing, or promoting a staging branch to production without republishing

Features​

Updates​

Browse your branches, drill down into runtime versions, and inspect individual OTA updates with their metadata.

Channels​

View all your release channels and change which branch a channel points to with a single click. This is especially useful for:

  • Instant rollback: Point a production channel back to a previous branch
  • Testing: Temporarily route a channel to a test branch
  • Promotion: Switch a channel from staging to production without rebuilding

Settings​

View the current server configuration at a glance.

How to Enable the Dashboard​

To activate the dashboard, configure the following environment variables:

1️⃣ Enable the Dashboard​

Set the USE_DASHBOARD environment variable to true:

USE_DASHBOARD=true

2️⃣ Set the Admin Password​

Set the ADMIN_PASSWORD environment variable to a secure password:

ADMIN_PASSWORD=your-password

Once enabled, the dashboard will be available at:

http://<your-server>/dashboard