How to be sure that views are saved? I just had a terrible learning experience. I spent several days building up a bunch of views, only to find that they vanished entirely from my site when I synchronized my configurations to handle another issue. They're gone. I have a dump of the db, but they're not on there either.
The funny thing is that not all of the views are gone. Some that I made several weeks ago are there, but the more recent ones are irrevocably lost.
And yes, I clicked &quot;Save&quot; on each view when I was creating it.
How can I be sure that this never happens again? What steps do I need to take save the views permanently in the db?
Version: Drupal 8.9.6
Shawn Conn's answer is what I needed. Going forward, I will now make it part of my routine to take snapshots of my configuration with drush cex and commit the changes. My mistake was believing that the views would be saved in the database.