What is Preview deployment?
Also called: Deploy preview
The short answer
A preview deployment is a temporary, shareable URL of a site built from one branch or pull request, so changes can be reviewed live before release.
Preview deployment, explained
It turns feedback from describing a change into clicking through it.
Questions people ask about Preview deployment
What is Preview deployment?
A preview deployment is a temporary, shareable URL of a site built from one branch or pull request, so changes can be reviewed live before release.
Related terms
A staging environment is a private copy of a website that mirrors production, used to test changes before they go live.
Pull requestA pull request proposes merging one branch of code into another, where teammates review the changes and automated checks run before anything goes live.
VercelVercel is a hosting platform for front-end frameworks, especially Next.js, that deploys from Git and serves sites from a global edge network.
DeployTo deploy is to publish a new version of a website to its host so visitors see it; modern hosts deploy automatically when code is pushed to Git.
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