# How does the dev environment work?

**URL:** <https://community.embeddable.com/t/how-does-the-dev-environment-work/37>\
**Category:** FAQs\
**Created:** [March 27, 2024, 1:37pm UTC](https://community.embeddable.com/t/how-does-the-dev-environment-work/37 "2024-03-27T13:37:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 1:37pm UTC](https://community.embeddable.com/t/how-does-the-dev-environment-work/37/1 "2024-03-27T13:37:40Z")

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The dev environment is a separate workspace where you can make changes and preview them locally, instead of doing a build → push step every time.

If you want those changes to show in your live workspace (i.e. not Preview workspace) you need to do the `embeddable:build` + `embeddable:push` steps.

When you first create your dev workspace it will be automatically connected to our sample database. Pop us a message to get it hooked up to your database 😊