Preview Branches Without the Branch Dance
A solo developer wrote in with a confession: he knows preview deployments are best practice, he's set them up for clients, and he has never once set one up for himself — because he doesn't trust himself to remember the branch-switching dance. What follows is a careful walk through what actually happens when you push to a branch on Vercel, why three of the four steps he fears simply don't exist, and how promote-to-production plus instant rollback turn "refine a design, then ship it" into a single click. Along the way: why AI agents make the preview buffer mandatory rather than nice-to-have…
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