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fastlane vs GitHub: What are the differences?

What is fastlane? Connect all iOS deployment tools into one streamlined workflow. fastlane lets you define and run your deployment pipelines for different environments. It helps you unify your app’s release process and automate the whole process. fastlane connects all fastlane tools and third party tools, like CocoaPods.

What is GitHub? Powerful collaboration, review, and code management for open source and private development projects. GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.

fastlane can be classified as a tool in the "Mobile Continuous Integration" category, while GitHub is grouped under "Code Collaboration & Version Control".

Some of the features offered by fastlane are:

  • Connect all build tools together
  • Define multiple lanes for different needs
  • Jenkins Integration

On the other hand, GitHub provides the following key features:

  • Command Instructions
  • Source Browser
  • Git Powered Wikis

"Easy to use" is the primary reason why developers consider fastlane over the competitors, whereas "Open source friendly" was stated as the key factor in picking GitHub.

fastlane is an open source tool with 31.7K GitHub stars and 4.87K GitHub forks. Here's a link to fastlane's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, GitHub has a broader approval, being mentioned in 8899 company stacks & 149535 developers stacks; compared to fastlane, which is listed in 187 company stacks and 207 developer stacks.

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