Deployment & Environments
Production Environment
What It Is
The live version that real users access
Analogy
The restaurant is open — real customers, real orders, real consequences
Try It Out
🛠️Development
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NODE_ENV="development"
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Local Development
Your local machine. Safe to experiment and break things.
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Related Terms in Deployment & Environments
Localhost
A restaurant that only you can eat at — it's fully functional but not open to the public
Development Environment
Your test kitchen — you can make mistakes, experiment, and no customers will see
Staging Environment
A dress rehearsal — everything is real except the audience
Deploy
Moving from your test kitchen to opening night — the code goes from your computer to the internet