Sheng
Sheng3d ago

Local Deployments for Development vs Self-hosted

What is the difference between Local Deployments for Development (https://docs.convex.dev/cli/local-deployments) and self-hosted in local machine when comes to local development?
Local Deployments for Development | Convex Developer Hub
Instead of syncing code to a Convex dev deployment hosted in the cloud, you can
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ballingt
ballingt2d ago
@shanghuang There are two different things that work in similar ways, what kind of differences are you asking about? Local Deployments for Development run a binary on your machine and store data there too, but you can still use the cloud dashboard to talk to them. They still belong to projects like normal Convex deployments. Self-hosting is using the open source code to run your own copy of Convex, with no Convex cloud integration. You don't have to sign up for Convex to use the self-hosted version, it's just running the open source code yourself.

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