Create.xyz · Export-plus-normalization
Create.xyz stores more than screens. It stores prompt history, design-to-code notes, project-settings names, and a generated app that only reliably boots under Create-hosted preview. Migration is the mechanical extract: get that tree into org Git, replace Publish-GUI assumptions with lockfile CI, and remount Auth off Create preview hostnames. The product journeys stay; the Create publish GUI does not have to.
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CodeCross LLC calls migrate-from-create an export-plus-normalization job: pull the generated Next/React tree off Create.xyz, pin Node and lockfiles, turn Create project settings into an env template, and prove a conventional start command on a clean runner. Success is install, test, build, and start with the Create editor shut and Create-hosted publish unused for production.
Why a raw Create export fails on a standard host
CI images lack packages the preview hid. Start paths assume Create’s working directory. Secrets arrive empty. Auth still expects Create preview hostnames.
Caches, local secret files, and prompt notes that never hit disk need an include-or-drop pass. The extract is source, lockfiles, assets, and a written env-name map.
Replace “available because Create publish” steps with npm ci / pnpm i, build, and a Procfile or Dockerfile CMD. Fail the pipeline if that is not true.
Export names into a template. Mint new values on the destination. Rotate old Create secret values after cutover.
Update callbacks before DNS moves. Point the app at a destination database and verify migrations on a clean runner.
The extract sequence that actually boots
Product behavior stays. Create’s publish GUI and preview assumptions leave. The destination is a conventional start command.
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Leave Create caches and editor-only junk out. Capture Create-tied data requirements separately so CI does not invent schema.
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Version files or the base image. Fail if install only works inside Create’s preview runner.
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Never commit Create .env. Dual-write or restore data, then verify migrations on a clean runner.
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The destination boots from that checkout alone. Create publish is no longer required for production.
How to
Export-plus-normalization. Success is install → test → build → start with no open Create editor and no Create publish for production.
Step 01
Take generated source, lockfiles (or generate them), public assets, route maps, and a written map of Create project settings env names. Leave caches, local secret files, and editor-only junk out.
Step 02
List env vars and run commands Create assumed. Pin Node. Replace Publish-only steps with npm ci / pnpm i, build, and a Procfile or Dockerfile CMD.
Step 03
Export names into an env template. Never commit Create .env. Update Auth callbacks and CORS that still hardcode Create preview hostnames before DNS moves.
Step 04
Point the app at a destination database. Capture Create-tied data requirements separately so CI does not invent schema.
Step 05
install → test → build → start with the Create editor closed. Rotate old Create secret values after cutover. Create publish is then optional.
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Owned pipeline the normalized Create export is supposed to join.
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Runtime exit if the extract is really a host disconnect.
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Take generated source, lockfiles (or generate them), public assets, route maps, and a written map of Create project settings env names. Leave Create caches, local secret files, and editor-only junk out of the remote. Capture any Create-tied data requirements separately so CI does not invent schema. Prompt notes that never hit disk need an explicit include-or-drop pass.
List env vars and run commands Create assumed. Pin Node in version files or the base image. Replace “available because Create publish” steps with `npm ci` / `pnpm i`, build, and a Procfile or Dockerfile CMD. Fail the pipeline if install only succeeds inside Create’s shell or preview runner.
Export secret names into an env template; mint new values on the destination; never commit Create `.env`. Point the app at a destination database and verify migrations on a clean runner. Update Auth callbacks and CORS that still hardcode Create preview hostnames before DNS moves. Rotate old Create secret values after cutover.
CI images lack Create-injected packages the preview hid, start paths assume Create’s working directory, and secrets arrive empty. Auth and forms still expect Create preview hostnames. Normalize install, process model, and env first; then push. A green Create preview is not a portable build.
Bring the export and the start command Create assumed. We will say whether this is a portable Next/React tree — or a preview that only runs inside Create’s shell.
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