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What's the proper `CONTEXT` for local builds?

See original GitHub issue

When builds are run locally (through the Netlify CLI or programmatically), should the CONTEXT be:

production?
A new context such as local?

One concern I have with using production is that users might have production settings (URLs, databases, etc.) that should not be used on local machines. Having a separate local context would allow users to distinguish between both environment in their configuration file (with the context.* property).

What are your thoughts? @DavidWells @verythorough @kitop @fool

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Created 4 years ago
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erquhartcommented, Feb 27, 2020

Agreed w/ @DavidWells - when running build through the CLI, build feels less like a distinct binary and more like a command. It helps to think of it this way:

netlify dev: builds for local development
netlify build: builds for production

Frontend devs are used to build scripts producing production builds.

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DavidWellscommented, Feb 26, 2020

I don’t think so. ‘netlify build’ should run the prod build

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