Sandbox

A sandboxA sandbox is a development environment that the development ... is a developmentDuring the development phase, your site (or new feature) is ... environment that the development teamThe development team builds and maintains the back end, incl... works in before code is ready to be deployedDeploying simply means to push changes or updates from one e.... Like the name suggests, it’s a safe place to play around in—you can’t interrupt anyone else’s work in your sandbox, which makes it a great place to test out and prototype code ideas before sending them out to the world. One thing that makes sandboxes special is that there is usually only one person working in a sandbox at a time, and you can upload your changes to the sandbox directly at any time, which makes development much faster. This is in contrastRecommendation: Contrast levels must be compliant with BU Mi... to productionProduction is a general term for the two client-facing envir... environments, which always require a deployDeploying simply means to push changes or updates from one e... to make changes as a safeguard.

The most important thing to know about a sandbox is that content can only go into a sandbox—it can’t be cloned or exported out. Never do any contentContent consists of text, images, headings, and other inform... work in a sandbox. All content work must be in stagingStaging is how we refer to the environment that holds our we.... This is because if you could take things out of the sandbox and go to one of our production environments, it would no longer be a safe place to experiment with code and develop it. If this were possible, there would be a risk of the work in a sandbox jeopardizing the production environment, including liveLive is how we refer to the environment that holds our live ... and staging sites. Because these sites are absolutely critical, we do not want to take any chances with them, so there is no way to send information from sandboxes and other development environments to production. You can clone a site from production to a development environment, though. This allows you to test changes to the most recent content in a safe place.

All team members should keep this in mind as they are working on web projects. If you see someone doing any sort of content work on a sandbox, make sure they know that they will have to manually copy and paste everything they do into a staging site in order to launchLaunch is the process of making your website or web pages av... that content.