The more streamlined our processes, the more productive we can be. Continuous deployment is about committing small ongoing improvements to a production server in a time saving, efficient way.
Continuous deployment is especially relevant to team collaboration projects. Instead of working on separate forks of the code and spending extra time, money, and effort on integration, everyone works on the same code base so integration is seamless.
In this recipe, we'll create a deployment flow using Git as a version control tool. While this may not be Node, it can certainly boost productivity for coding, deploying, and managing Node projects.
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If we're a little unfamiliar with Git, we can gain insight from Github's help documents, http://help.github.com.
We'll need Git installed on both our server and desktop systems, instructions for different systems can be found here http://book.git-scm.com/2_installing_git.html. If we're using Linux with the apt-get package manager...