ntools have two predefined build types: stage and prod. The stage build type is deploy code to a stage environment used for debugging and testing, while the prod build type is used for prod deployment. The stage build type includes debugging symbols and is not optimized, while the production build type is optimized for performance and does not include debugging symbols.

stage

The stage build type use the following command:

nb stage

It includes the following steps:

• Clean the project
• Restore the project
• Build the project
• Test the project
• Publish the project to the stage environment
• Run various tests on the stage environment
• The version is set according to the rules in versioning

Production

The prod build type use the following command:

nb prod

It includes the following steps:

• Clean the project
• Restore the project
• Build the project
• Test the project
• Publish the project to the production environment
• Run smoke tests on the production environment
• This build is available for download from the GitHub release page
• The version is set according to the rules in versioning

Your project can have additional build types which you can add to your nbuild.targets fille,