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frankieroberto opened this issue May 14, 2025 · 0 comments
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Investigate ways to enable previewing of unreleased changes #1301

frankieroberto opened this issue May 14, 2025 · 0 comments

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frankieroberto commented May 14, 2025

Currently it’s a little awkward to preview unreleased changes, for example in a branch of the Service manual website (where we might be drafting guidance for upcoming changes), or to test unreleased changes in services or prototypes.

Options to explore could be:

  • publishing pre-release (or 'release candidate') packages using the -rc.1 type suffixes
  • enabling the package to be installed using a GitHub reference to a branch within package.json, eg `"nhsuk-frontend": "nhsuk/nhuk-frontend#branchname"
  • using npm link - this can be done locally, but is there a way to do it temporarily on a deployed environment too?
  • anything else?

The GOV.UK Design System team seem to do a combination of the first 2 options:

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