What workflow does everyone use

Posted on March 22, 2018

I’m just wondering what workflow everybody uses? I’m used to developing on windows exclusively, so a lot of the linux stuff is new and cumbersome to me. I know I can develop locally, which is what I’m doing in a ubuntu VM on a windows box, but lets say I go into production. What then? How do I push to the server asap etc… what’s the best method for this kind of setup. I will be using Laravel as a framework mostly.

I liked the idea of having the cloud storage mounted locally in the vm, but I’ve found once i got over the hurdle of setting it up to accept my ssh key pair sublime wouldn’t save over the files anyway.

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Adrian St. Onge

March 25, 2018

This is a broad question. How do you deploy when you develop under windows? Most likely the same tools are available.

A basic answer is using git.

Develop locally under linux
Test
git commit & git push
Use a git hook on the remote server (testing or prod)
Done!

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-git-hooks-to-automate-development-and-deployment-tasks

Maybe you’re using a CI/CD pipeline?

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/automatically-deploy-laravel-applications-deployer-ubuntu

If you’re cloud storage is mounted locally (and correctly mounted) sublime, atom, vscode (or any other editor) should read/write the files normally. If sublime doesn’t save the files, make sure you’re opening the correct file from the correct mounted drive.