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Create preview deployment without a hosting provider

Our team would like to be able to generate preview deployments. We don't need a hosting provider for our app, so we're not using Vercel or Netlify. We want to be able to generate our own preview deployments, but the docs aren't clear on how to do this and AI doesn't help either. I realize preview deployments is in beta, but we don't need a lot of handholding, we just need a bit more info.

We have already tried setting

CONVEX_DEPLOY_KEY

CONVEX_DEPLOY_KEY

and running

npx convex deploy --preview-create {branch-name}

npx convex deploy --preview-create {branch-name}

. We get a prompt asking if we want to "push your code to your prod deployment", which is not what we want.

We tried configuring an

.env.preview

.env.preview

and the running npx deploy with the

--env-file

--env-file

option, but we don't seem to be getting the configuration quite right.

It would be awesome if the docs included configuring a GitHub action for preview deployments.

Any guidance is appreciated, thanks!

Create preview deployment without a hosting provider

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