The design team needs a place inside fd-web to publish "coded prototypes" — small interactive demos (e.g., transaction table redesign, HRA flows, experimental UX) that they can share via a link with the rest of the company. Today:
- There's no shared destination for these prototypes. Some designers don't even work in fd-web, so they end up trapped on individual machines or in Figma/Framer exports with no shareable link.
- Netlify/Vercel are not approved tools. Per the Slack thread (Mar 25), the approved path is Firebase Hosting (already in use for consumer, manager, storybook, and widgets-sandbox).
- The original ask mentioned GitHub Pages, but the team consensus — and the path of least resistance — is "a new folder in fd-web with a different purpose and deploy pipeline" (DJ + Emery). The pattern is exactly what
apps/widgets-sandboxalready does. - Critical constraint: prototypes must never affect prod. Achieved by giving them thei