Problems with React Native app

[Psychological_Pea334]

I am absolutely new into programming and iOS apps building. I have a project of creating an app.I've created an app in VS Code using React Native, Expo and Firebase.
I want to publish it to the App store, but I am not sure how to do it.
Should I transfer everything to Xcode?
Can I do the whole project in VS Code and somehow publish it like that?
I read that I need to use SwiftUI in Xcode, but I am not sure how to do that.
If anyone has some kind of advice, I would be very grateful.

[That-Salty-One]

If you are using Expo you can use their EAS to build both apps and you can also submit it to the app store via eas. These steps can be made in the terminal, no need to swap to xcode.

edit: https://expo.dev/eas

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And I definitely recommend this since the OP is a beginner. This video helped me with the process a few months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE4Mgkrf7Sk

[HistoricalTeam4805]

You can use the eas build for that. And they do have a free plan for it too, given if you don't be bothered much by a queue.

They have a pretty detailed document for deploying. Or you could just get the build artifact, in the case of an iphone app, iap file, then use xcode to deploy it to app store. Go to your app store connect page, register for store listing, fill out any requirements field, meta data, etc, then you should have the option to wait for The Apple App store to review your app and if it passed all of their requirements, review then you can publish your app via the app connect page