Tempo · Dual-track visual handoff
Designers and PMs should keep shaping flows in Tempo’s visual editor—that collaboration is the product advantage. A transition moves publish authority to Git sync: the editor remains the workshop, while engineering Git decides what production actually builds. Share links stay for critique; they stop being the quiet path into prod.
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CodeCross LLC frames transition-from-tempo as keeping visual-editor collaboration while shifting publish authority to Git sync. Operators continue critiques and exploratory frames in Tempo, route accepted UI through the engineering remote, and shrink who can publish into production-bound packages. Done when a production UI fix ships from Git without a Tempo publish step.
Why Tempo transition is its own URL
Get-off and migrate assume you are ready to retire Tempo. Many teams are not. They are ready to give production a job—accounts, writes, paid traffic—while Tempo still proves screens.
Each surface needs a job. Mixing them is how a stakeholder review corrupts real accounts. Tag releases so support knows which origin a bug came from.
When a screen is finished in the visual editor, the transition step is a PR into the owned repo—not hope that someone will paste it later.
If there is no PR review and no named owner for layout shells or shared primitives, you have only added a second host.
Public materials that cite Tempo preview URLs need 301s. One canonical host has to be published early.
The dual-track we actually keep
Tempo for layout iteration and stakeholder review. Production for accounts, writes, and paid traffic. Scope Tempo write access so a visual tweak cannot mutate a released route.
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Pin the design-token source of truth outside the Tempo session. Require new features to land in the repo first once production is authoritative.
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Production gets CI checks, secret injection, and a human promote step. Tempo preview stays disposable. Block deploys that still reference Tempo-only URLs or editor-session assets.
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The ship gate is two Git promotes by different operators—not republishing the visual preview. Rehearse on a non-critical path first.
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Redirect Tempo shares used in public materials. Update sitemap and metadata when the production origin becomes authoritative.
How to
Continuity for users and search. Success is two Git promotes by different operators after Tempo write access is scoped off released routes.
Step 01
Tempo iterates layout. Production holds accounts, writes, and paid traffic. Never let Tempo preview share production databases or secrets.
Step 02
Layout shells, shared primitives, and the three highest-traffic routes get owners. Finished Tempo screens become PRs, not screenshots.
Step 03
A visual tweak must not mutate a route that already ships from Git. Block production deploys that still cite Tempo-only URLs or editor-session assets.
Step 04
Document restore to the last known-good production deploy. Do this before you move DNS or marketing spend.
Step 05
Keep path parity with validated Tempo routes. Update sitemap and metadata when production becomes authoritative. Do not abandon temporary Tempo backlinks without 301s.
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Workshops, critiques, exploratory frames, and stakeholder walkthroughs via share links. Designers still push ideas visually. What stops is silent overwrite of production components: accepted visuals become reviewed Git changes (or ticketed emits) instead of live publishes into the prod package.
Introduce a handoff ritual: freeze or gate the production-bound Tempo project for emit, open a PR that imports the delta, and require engineering review for token or contract changes. Give designers a sandbox project for unconstrained exploration. Speed stays in the sandbox; authority lives on the remote that CI watches.
Canonical token package, shared component library, and any Git sync that can push straight to production branches. Tempo may consume published packages; it must not be the sole writer of those packages for prod. Share-link previews lose production Secrets. Document the sync direction so CI rejects drifts that never hit Git.
Production deploys ignore the Tempo publish button and only follow the engineering remote. Incident runbooks never say “republish from Tempo” to restore UI. Token versions in prod match `main`. A designer can propose in the visual editor, but an engineer ships the fix from Git without opening the production Tempo project.
Bring the Tempo-validated journey and who can promote. We will name the first route to leave the visual editor — and the rollback that is not “republish the preview.”
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