Knowing prod is coming soon, I’ve been trying to plan around this, I haven’t lived in an engineers shoes though. I know I’m supposed to do this, but have been struggling to find a good place to learn how to do this.
Love this share and will get to researching! Definitely a helpful point in the right direction.
Man… there’s a lot to unpack here to create a “how-to” guide.
First, you’ve got to start by learning the basics of GitHub — understanding what repositories are, how commits work, and how to push/pull code. From there, you need to dive into version control best practices on GitHub:
Branching strategies like GitFlow, GitHub Flow, or trunk-based development.
How to create feature branches, handle pull requests, and resolve merge conflicts.
Proper release tagging for versioning and rollbacks.
Once you’ve got that foundation, the next step is automation and delivery. That means getting comfortable with CI/CD pipelines, specifically using GitHub Actions to run automated tests, build your application, and deploy to your environment.
Only after all of that makes sense should you move on to integrating with external environments like Replit. That involves linking your GitHub repo to Replit, configuring automatic updates, and ensuring that your workflow supports both local and cloud-based development without introducing sync issues.
All of that to say this — before you even hit “connect to Replit,” you’re learning an entire development ecosystem.
This an awesome thread, tons of great ideas in here. One I’ll throw out that is related to the client topic but more the db topic. I see stumbled upon dynamo db because I couldn’t deal with the rebuilding database schema stuff in Postgres and other dbs since I’m building tools that constantly change or add schema. dynamo is glorious for this since it never needs to rebuild schema. It’s nosql which actually makes it awesome for using in dev and production since if you are using test accounts you don’t even need to think about schema when testing new things.