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JavaScript npm Basics (retiring) Installing Packages with npm Managing Dependencies in the package.json File

Posted by Antonio Jaramillo
Antonio Jaramillo
15,604 Points

Development vs. Production environment

This may be a silly question, but can someone explain to me the difference between these two environments?

1 Answer

Luke Pettway
Luke Pettway
16,593 Points

Production environments are the "live" or public version of a site site. A development environment can be several locations but are typically private. If you set up a local server on your computer, that can be a development system, if you own a domain called catsarethebest.com but you set up a subdomain called dev.catsarethebest.com for testing your code on, then that is also a development environment.

There are also staging environments too, which are just dev servers that a part of a version control process and might be the final place everyone's code goes to before it is deployed to production.

Antonio Jaramillo
Antonio Jaramillo
15,604 Points

Makes total sense. Thanks.