The joining page now teaches laptop (the workshop), development (the table everyone lands on, followed by the
shared dev server) and main (production: /cdn, the websites and every partner snippet load it; never pushed to
directly). Its commands pull and push development. Schema is made on a laptop, never in the shared server's
PocketBase screen, whose automatic migration files are lost at the next restart.
DEPLOY: the cloud server follows development and publishes main at /cdn (PRODUCTION_BRANCH=main); publishing
merges development into main; EMBED_BASE_URL makes snippets absolute; /cdn revalidates within 5 minutes. The
drop-in example pointed at a deleted branch and now names research-gallery-drop-in, with a link to running all
three DX-life ways on a laptop.
Laptop sync (DX_SYNC_REMOTE) follows development by default, so teammates' landings arrive before they are
published.
One switch makes a laptop hot-reload what someone pushes elsewhere (e.g. cloud agents): a URL needs no
`git remote add`. Credentials in a https://user:token@ URL are never shown in the log or /api/dev-sync.
Opt-in with DX_SYNC_REMOTE (plus DX_SYNC_BRANCH, default main, and DX_SYNC_INTERVAL, default 15 s) in
.env.local. Every interval the dev server fetches the branch and fast-forwards when this checkout is on it
with no modified tracked files and no local commits, so Vite hot-reloads what teammates landed. Otherwise
it never merges, stashes or resets: it logs once and reports "main is N commits ahead, pull when ready" at
/api/dev-sync for a Studio badge.