Create a pit of success to share the application built

[Janpot]

Users don't always realize they're sharing their app under the release-specific URL. Users won't receive updates when using this URL as the app gets deployed. We should clearly mark the app when it's accessed through this URL and provide a link to a shareable canonical URL for their app.

One idea could be to add a banner at the top with an explainer and link.

[oliviertassinari]

A couple of ideas on how we could improve this. (José & I got tricked)

1. Adding "share" section.

Figma

Notion

Airtable

2. On the release page, link the public URL

https://master--toolpad.mui.com/_toolpad/app/cl4hla83p01949xoizo5uxf2a/releases.

Netlify: https://app.netlify.com/sites/material-ui/deploys?filter=master

Render: https://dashboard.render.com/static/srv-c8uf1hkobjd4knp4svg0/events

3. On the deploy view, link the production URL

This might be the most important aspect to solve the immediate pain. It's where I got tricked, and I suspect @joserodolfofreitas too. On https://master--toolpad.mui.com/_toolpad/app/cl4hla83p01949xoizo5uxf2a/releases/7, I have used these external links

to update https://mui-org.notion.site/Support-87b6c33d1d86401b8af2ae2d5fc9cf5d. I didn't realize it was a permalink.

What I would propose as a solution is to reproduce something close to Netlify. Notice how they have a permalink and a bigger button to open the published deploy:

https://app.netlify.com/sites/material-ui/deploys/62ac9e0d5829c30009c0d688

[joserodolfofreitas]

Another consideration on the pain point: The sharing experience is definitely a big part of it, but I have bookmarked the release link on the browser bar too. Ideally, that link would also point to the latest.

[Janpot]

Started sketching some changes to the release pages to deal with some of these issues https://github.com/mui/mui-toolpad/pull/583.

[prakhargupta1]

In the new Toolpad, the app URL is controlled by the user. Does that make this issue irrelevant?

[Janpot]

Does that make this issue irrelevant?

Yes, this issue was tightly aligned with the concept of releases