Local changes

Start Nhost locally:

nhost dev

tip

Make sure you have Docker installed on your computer. It’s required for Nhost to work.

The nhost dev command will automatically start a complete Nhost environment locally on your computer using:

• Postgres
• Hasura
• Authentication
• Storage
• Serverless Functions
• Mailhog

You use this local environment to do changes and testing before you deploy your changes to production.

Running nhost dev also starts the Hasura Console.

tip

It's important that you use the Hasura Console that is started automatically when you do changes. This way, changes are automatically tracked for you.

In the Hasura Console, create a new table customers with two columns:

• id
• name

When we created the customers table there was also a migration created automatically. The migration was created at under nhost/migrations/default.

$ ls -la nhost/migrations/default
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  3 eli  staff   96 Feb  7 16:19 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 eli  staff   96 Feb  7 16:19 ..
drwxr-xr-x  4 eli  staff  128 Feb  7 16:19 1644247179684_create_table_public_customers

This database migration has only been applied locally, meaning, you created the customers table locally but it does not (yet) exists in production.

To apply the local change to production we need to commit the changes and push it to GitHub. Nhost will then automatically pick up the change in the repository and apply the changes.

tip

You can commit and push files in another terminal while still having nhost dev running.

git add -A
git commit -m "Initialized Nhost and added a customers table"
git push

Head over to the Deployments tab in the Nhost console to see the deployment.

Once the deployment finishes the customers table is created in production.

We've now completed the recommended workflow with Nhost:

1. Develop locally using the Nhost CLI.
2. Push changes to GitHub.
3. Nhost deploys changes to production.