Development
develop
Auto-deployed on every merge to develop. Expect it to move often and occasionally break — that's the point.
LaFix infrastructure & deployment reference
Everything the team needs in one place: where each environment lives, and how code travels from a branch on your machine to a client demo.
Bookmark these. Dev updates on every merge to develop; staging only when the team decides to promote.
Auto-deployed on every merge to develop. Expect it to move often and occasionally break — that's the point.
Client demos and pre-production validation. Treat it as the release candidate — keep it stable and presentable.
The page you're reading. Lives in the lafix-garage repo — edit index.html and open a PR to update it.
Nobody commits straight to develop or main. Every change goes through a branch and a pull request.
Branch off develop for anything you touch — feature, fix, or experiment. One branch per piece of work, so it can be reviewed and reverted on its own.
developWhen the work is finished, open a pull request on GitHub targeting develop. Get it reviewed, then merge. Direct pushes bypass review and CI — don't.
The merge into develop triggers the pipeline, which ships to the development environment. No manual step on your side.
After the pipeline goes green, give CapRover 1–2 minutes to build the images and swap the old site out. If your change still isn't live after 2 minutes, contact Dorin directly — the deployment didn't pull through.
Once everything on dev is validated and we agree as a team that it's ready to move, we promote it as a batch — not piece by piece.
mainstagingPromoting means a pull request from develop into main. Merging it deploys to the staging environment — same 1–2 minute CapRover build window.
Staging is what we put in front of clients for demos, and the environment we harden on the way to production.
Which branch lands where.
| Branch | Merged via | Environment | Used for |
|---|---|---|---|
your-branch |
— | local only | Your work in progress |
develop |
PR from your branch | Development | Integration & day-to-day testing |
main |
PR from develop |
Staging | Client demos & pre-production |
develop or main. Branch, PR, merge — every time.main yet.develop into main is a shared decision, not an individual one.