Title: Development Process Question/Curiosity..
Last modified: November 1, 2016

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# Development Process Question/Curiosity..

 *  Resolved [WPWanderer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpwanderer/)
 * (@wpwanderer)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/development-process-questioncuriosity/)
 * I actually haven’t used a plugin like this before and getting to know it. I am
   familiar with concatenation and minification, but more through task managers 
   like Gulp/Grunt.
 * If you have a live site running AO, and then you need to go through a few rounds
   of dev changes do you keep your plugin activate as you are developing on your
   local development environment? Or do you deactivate the plugin so it might be
   easier to use Dev Tools and then reactivate to test and make sure nothing goes
   whackey when you push to Live?
 * Are there any tools that might integrate CSS Source Maps to your plugin?
 * Just some general questions about how I would integrate your plugin into my development
   process after is site is live, but dev is ongoing. Thanks.

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 *  Plugin Author [Frank Goossens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futtta/)
 * (@futtta)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/development-process-questioncuriosity/#post-8381759)
 * I would develop without AO first and when things start to stabilize switch it
   on. After that you can still easily turn it off on a per-request basis by adding`?
   ao_noptimize=1` to the URL (provided your page caching plugin does not ignore
   the querystring).
 * no support for CSS Source Maps though.
 * frank
 *  Thread Starter [WPWanderer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpwanderer/)
 * (@wpwanderer)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/development-process-questioncuriosity/#post-8382503)
 * Thanks. I am thinking it may add a little bit to dev time as you may need to 
   test after turning it on. Good to know.

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