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Developer Documentation
Packaging, Extraction and transferring
Overview of the different phases of a courier deployment, packaging changes, transferring them and extracting them on a target.
Data resolvers
In some cases, data must be modified to be transfer correctly, data resolvers helps developers to temporarily modify deployed data.
Events
Some events might be triggered on deployment, and overridden if necessary.
Included Resource resolvers
Courier includes a number of resource resolvers to modify deployed files as they are packaged and extracted.
Included Persistence Providers
A Persistence provider is the datalayer used by courier to store data in the database.
Included Repository Providers
A Repository is an API Courier can use to transfer data between locations.