Developing Websites with Workspaces: Local Tools, Safe Isolation, Real Releases

Modern website development is usually split between two worlds.

On one side, developers want a familiar local workflow: their IDE, editor shortcuts, project search, CSS tooling, JavaScript editing, and the ability to work across multiple files quickly.

On the other side, hosted website platforms need strong boundaries: isolated customer environments, controlled permissions, safe previews, reproducible builds, and a clear separation between development state and live production output.

Workspaces is designed to connect these two worlds.

It allows teams to host and manage websites inside a workspace, including templates, placeholders, data bindings, online shop integrations, and other dynamic site features, while still giving developers a practical way to work with site files locally.

The key idea: developers can work with a site project through a virtual SFTP gateway .

Not raw SSH.

Not direct server filesystem access.

Not…