Development Build - CI/CD Glossary Definition
A development build favors fast rebuilds and readable output over size, and it is not meant for production.
A development build compiles an app for fast iteration and debugging, skipping heavy optimizations and keeping readable output with full source maps. It should never be deployed to production.
In development mode the bundler skips minification, keeps verbose warnings, and generates detailed source maps so debugging is easy. CI may produce a dev build for tests, but the release artifact is always a production build.
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