Hi 
When you have multiple developers, working in the same environment - any change you make on your end, eg. introduction of a new collection, which is not yet sourcecontrolled to the others, ends up being a struggle. Even if they are on a localhost too, the UI configurations are shared across instances, so any change you make, ends up being removed when someone else runs their localhost. Quite unintuitive as far as ālocalhostā goes. It seems that you can create personalized versions of an environment, by just copying the current eg. development out to a branch, that you can then work on yourself. This should be fine.
My question is then, how do you migrate all of these changes back to development? You couldnāt just make development a copy of your local copy, as anyone else doing it afterwards, would then override your changes.
I guess this could be solved by working on your local instance, then applying the changes when you are happy with them, to the development. That works fine - until someone doesnāt have the newest version, and accidently runs a localhost in the development environment ā then everything gets messed up. This have happened quite a few times to us.
A second question,
How do you suggest we go about rolling changes from development up to staging, and production. We canāt trust an upstream, by simply importing the configuration from development into staging. As development is exactly that, an unstable environment where you could have messed many things up. At the moment our only solution, is to write down the UI changes, we want to roll out, and then manually apply them in the staging environment. This leads to a large manual process, and are prone to errors.
A third question,
Is there any API or automations to this environmental cloning/creating? We would like to occasionally override Development with Staging, so that it always reflect the proper configuration, without all the temporarily development things people tried.
, and thanks