Building application in dev mode and running it on different server

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Hi,

Maybe someone can help me. Is it possible with Vaadin 14 to build application with development mode (prepare-frontend) on one server and then have it deployed somewhere else (different test server) to be able to have live /frontend folder contents reload there. In that case someone else who does not have access to all of code could change css and see results instantly on test server. For now I saw that you can specify npmDirectory, targetDirectory and frontendDirectory, but they are used in build also so everything must be on same the machine.
Or maybe there is some other way of having live reload server with source map and modifiable /frontend directory contents?

Thanks for your answer in advance.

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Is it possible with Vaadin 14 to build application with development mode (prepare-frontend) on one server and then have it deployed somewhere else (different test server) Is it possible with Vaadin 14 to build application with development mode (prepare-frontend) on one server and then have it deployed somewhere else (different test server)

Simple answer is no. When you deploy the application to different server, you need production build. The development mode works only when you run locally via e.g. mvn jetty:run or mvn spring-boot:run.