API environments: sandbox vs production

Testing safely without affecting real customers

In the Leafy Energy demo, the API clearly separates a sandbox environment from a production-like environment so you can experiment safely.

Sandbox

• Fictional customers, sites and synthetic consumption data.
• Ideal for demos, proofs of concept and integration tests.

Production (demo)

• More realistic data and scenarios, but still not connected to actual grid data.
• Useful for demonstrating performance and monitoring concepts.

Selecting the environment in code

// Pseudo-code
const baseUrl = isSandbox
  ? "https://sandbox.leafy.energy/v1"
  : "https://api.leafy.energy/v1";

Documentation and training material use this to stress the importance of separate environments in energy and smart home projects.