Preview apps that stakeholders actually click

A pull request without a URL is a PDF. Design, product, and QA cannot argue about a screenshot they cannot click. We attach a preview to every front-end change so the review comment replaces a meeting.

GitHub Actions builds the branch, deploys an ephemeral URL, and posts it back on the pull request. When the branch dies, the environment dies. That is a feature, not a missing staging server.

Kill the environment zoo

Staging that nobody trusts is worse than none. It drifts, it holds secrets from 2019, and it is always 'almost like production'. Previews expire. They cannot accumulate folklore.

We still keep one long-lived environment for migrations and partner integrations. Everything a human reviews for UI lives on a preview.

Make the link unavoidable

The comment is short: URL, who deployed it, when it expires. If the workflow fails, the pull request is red. There is no optional preview for 'small CSS'. Small CSS is how production themes die.

Stakeholders click more when the link is in the same thread as the screenshot they used to argue about.