Prevu Preview Environments

This skill automates the deployment of temporary, fully functional preview environments directly from a feature branch using Prevu. It ensures the environment is stable, accessible, and accurately reflects the proposed changes by verifying critical services, public URL reachability, and deployed code version. Each environment is configured with automatic expiration to optimize resource usage.

This process streamlines the review cycle, providing a reliable platform for human inspection and feedback. It's ideal for developers needing to share work for review, validating pull requests, verifying bug fixes in a production-like setting, or gathering early stakeholder feedback on work in progress.

What It Does

This skill deploys a temporary preview environment using Prevu, ensuring it is stable and accessible for human inspection. It verifies that all critical services are running, the public URL is reachable, and the deployed code matches the target feature branch. The environment is configured with an automatic expiration to prevent resource waste. This process ensures that reviewers receive a reliable and accurate representation of the changes.

When To Use

A developer completes a feature branch and needs to share it for review.
A pull request is opened, and the changes require live testing by a reviewer.
A bug fix is implemented and needs to be verified in an an environment mirroring production.
A team member wants to share work in progress with a stakeholder for early feedback.

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Installation

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