All of these recipes around building have left out one key step—deploying. This is something I would have done from the start, typically. Ideally, as you show progress to a product owner or work with a team, your work is not truly done until it is merged with other work and seen on a staging
area. Having something work on your machine is really half the battle.
This chapter will go over some key steps to getting you application to deploy. I will look at the easy-to-use workflow with Forge, but then I will also add a bit extra to it. Also, I will then cover testing your production app with Behat and managing your .env
file.
Finally, I will pull out the client that I have been using all along to make a library, that out of it shrinking down the code I am testing and deploying.