Projects & Sandbox

Organizing your work, sandbox vs. live, and the two API surfaces.

What's the difference between a sandbox and a production project?

A sandbox project is a fully isolated test environment: payments run through Stripe's test mode so no real money moves, you can assign fixed one-time codes to…

What is a project?

A project is an isolated grouping of your users, services, websites, and content. Resources inside a project are shared — any user can call any service in it —…

How do I set up separate staging and production environments?

Create a separate project per environment — projects are free and fully isolated, so a staging project can't touch production users or data. A common setup is…

When do I use the client-side API vs the server-side API?

Use the client-side API (forte.users.*) from browsers and mobile apps — it authenticates with the signed-in user's session cookie and is scoped to that one…

What is FORTE_API_TOKEN and where do I get it?

It's the Bearer token for Forte's server-side API, scoped to one project. Every deployed service receives it automatically as an environment variable, and the…