Running Convex locally while deploying to hosted plan
I'm building an open source project on top of Convex and I'd like to accept code contributions from others. Afaik the only way to enable this right now is to add every contributor as a paid seat on my Convex plan, and although I wish I had the project income to do that, we currently make $0 in revenue. Is it possible to enable people to spin up a local backend for Convex while still relying on the hosted/paid plan for production data and management?
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Thank you!
@Eva hi! I might be missing something, but why can't they just iterate on your codebase on their own free account?
😅 I... hadn't even considered that lol
Writing contributor guidelines for new contributors, would I instruct them to create a Convex account, and then clone the repo and link it to their account? Or will they need to create a new blank project
if they just checkout your codebase and do
npx convex dev, it will prompt them to create an account or a new project as necessary. then they'll be up and running on your project in their own free account
and yep, this is the usual way people collab on OSS with convex!beautiful! thank you so much 💗