Great idea. I usually run a dev server on a cloud instance and rsync to it and run pnpm install. In the future I want to do this for an entire monorepo. It’s amazing the waiting tax you pay for modern ci and paas stuff for non-prod stuff.
There are obviously very good reasons why we mostly don't do that anymore, but you can't deny how great of a feedback loop that was for shipping to production. We've lost that for the longest time with this new generation of development workflows that take latencies of minutes for granted.
With Reflame I want to restore that awesome feedback loop for shipping we used to have, but this time with all the modern niceties with source control for collaboration and different preview environments to test changes in, so we can have the best of both worlds.