Deployment & Environments
Staging Environment
What It Is
A copy of production for final testing before going live
Analogy
A dress rehearsal — everything is real except the audience
Try It Out
🛠️Development
localhost:3000Environment Variables1 difference highlighted
NEXT_PUBLIC_URL="http://localhost:3000"
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Local Development
Your local machine. Safe to experiment and break things.
Click tabs to compare configurations. Yellow highlights show values that differ between environments.
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
Production Environment
The restaurant is open — real customers, real orders, real consequences
Deploy
Moving from your test kitchen to opening night — the code goes from your computer to the internet