Managing separate configurations for development and production is crucial for Angular applications with different API endpoints, feature flags, and debug settings. As the creator of CoreUI with over 11 years of Angular development experience since 2014, I’ve configured production deployments for countless enterprise applications. The most effective solution is to use Angular’s environment file replacement system that automatically swaps configurations during build. This approach ensures clean separation between environments without manual configuration changes.

Creating branches is essential for parallel development, feature isolation, and collaborative workflows in modern software development teams. As the creator of CoreUI, a widely used open-source UI library, I’ve managed complex branching strategies across multiple projects and contributors to maintain stable releases while developing new features. From my expertise, the most efficient approach is to use git checkout -b which creates and switches to a new branch in one command. This method ensures clean feature development without affecting the main codebase until changes are ready for integration.