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Environments

Production, staging and preview branches: isolated copies of your database, keys and functions.

What an environment is

An environment is a fully isolated copy of your project, with its own database, API keys, secrets and function deployments. Every project starts with development and production.

Default environments

Environment

Used for

Data

development

Local work and tessera push

Seed data, safe to reset

staging

Pre-release checks and QA

Copy of production, anonymised

production

Your live app

Real customer data

Switching environments

npx tessera env listnpx tessera env use staging

Production is protected

Schema changes reach production only through a reviewed migration. tessera push never targets production directly.

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