Guides

Update an app in place

Ship a new build to an existing app while keeping the same URL, status, and visibility.

When you’ve changed your app and rebuilt it, you don’t delete and re-create — you update in place. The URL, draft/published status, and visibility all stay exactly as they were.

Update flow

  1. Open App To Page → Apps.
  2. On the app’s card, open the ⋯ menu and choose Update.
  3. Drop your new .zip onto the dropzone.

The plugin replaces the app’s files and re-runs its base-path processing on the new build. Everything else about the app is preserved:

  • the same URL (your-site.com/my-app)
  • whether it’s a draft or published
  • its visibility (public or logged-in only)

You’ll get a confirmation toast when it’s done.

Tips

  • Test risky changes as a draft. If a release is uncertain, you can unpublish first (back to a private draft), update, preview, and re-publish.
  • Caching is handled. Because hashed asset filenames change between builds, visitors pick up the new version without hard-refreshing; the entry HTML is revalidated on each load.