Deploying Your Code to the Web
In the previous two chapters, you had an in-depth look at testing and how it can benefit your application. Now that you’re confident in the stability and usability of your Vue.js application, it’s time to take a deeper look at how to get that code up on the web.
In this chapter, you will be able to explain the benefits of a CI/CD workflow and how it ties into the release cycle, release cadence, and development workflows. To this end, you’ll be able to articulate the differences between Vue.js development and production builds and what trade-offs are made.
To test and deploy a Vue.js application, you’ll configure GitLab CI/CD with pipelines, jobs, and steps. You’ll become familiar with Netlify, Amazon Web Services Simple Storage Service (AWS S3), and AWS CloudFront, and their key similarities and differences.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Exploring the benefits of CI/CD as part...