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Staging environment

Meaning in web development, with examples

nounCommon term

In web development, staging environment means: A copy of the live site, set up as close to production as possible, where new versions are tested before real users see them.

In Turkish: staging ortamı, test ortamı, ön yayın ortamı

How it is used

Usually just called staging. A typical flow is development, then staging, then production. People say 'deploy to staging', 'it works on staging' and 'staging is down'.

Example sentences

  1. The new checkout is on the staging environment; please test it before Thursday.

  2. The staging environment uses a copy of last week's database.

Common collocations

  • deploy to staging
  • staging server
  • staging and production
  • staging URL
  • deployTo put a new version of a website or app on a server so that users can reach it, usually through an automated process.
  • environment variableA named setting, such as a database URL or an API key, that is given to an app from outside the code so that it can differ between environments.
  • buildThe automatic step that turns source code into files ready for production, for example by compiling, bundling and minifying them; also the result of that step.
  • hostingA service that keeps a website's files and code on servers connected to the internet, so that people can visit the site at any time.

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