Creating more than one environment
Convex has 2 environment one production and second development. Development can only be used for local development. But i want to create a dev environment similar to production which can be accessed by anyone in the team. Currenly only i can access the development environment. Please help!
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Technically anyone in a team can access anyone else's dev environment, just grab the url when you're viewing your dev deployment dashboard and share it out. You could add a fake team member just to use as a staging deployment, most straightforward method I know of.
I didn't get it. How others can see my development database?
1. Navigate to your Convex Dashboard
2. Navigate to your dev deployment if you're not already there
3. Copy the url in your address bar
4. Share it out
If you want others to develop locally against yours or any other development deployment, change the environment variables in your
.env.local to the deployment you want to target.
I have no idea to what extent this is or isn't recommended by Convex officially as a way to get a staging environment, but it does work currently.
And again, they have to be a member of your Convex team to be able to view the link to your dev deployment dashboard.Okay got it
Thanks
You can also deploy to preview backends for a Pro team: https://docs.convex.dev/production/hosting/preview-deployments
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Use Convex with your hosting provider's preview deployments
I thought of recommending previews, but wasn't sure they would work as a staging env given their 14 day lifespan.
Another pattern I've thought about is having two projects - one where prod is staging, and the other where prod is prod. Team members only use the project with staging, and CI/CD alone deploys to the prod project.
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