user6206: I was able to set up my development environment for the course thanks to the help from others in the discord and the guides they developed.  I understand that this helps us set up the plutus playground in our local environment for the course.
My question is: How does this setup differ from what we'd end up using for a contract in a production environment?  Is there additional infrastructure required to run smart contracts in mainnet production?

user382: Later in the course, I think we'll get into using PAB and submitting smart contracts on-chain. At the first stage here, the focus is on simulated contracts. There's some additional steps to get the hashes that need to go into the tx and other things.

6206: <p>I was able to set up my development environment for the course thanks to the help from others in the discord and the guides they developed.  I understand that this helps us set up the plutus playground in our local environment for the course.</p>
<p>My question is: How does this setup differ from what we'd end up using for a contract in a production environment?  Is there additional infrastructure required to run smart contracts in mainnet production?</p>
 382: <p>Later in the course, I think we'll get into using PAB and submitting smart contracts on-chain. At the first stage here, the focus is on simulated contracts. There's some additional steps to get the hashes that need to go into the tx and other things.</p>
