Now that we have seen both the server-side and the client-side code for JavaScript, we need to focus on another matter entirely; that is, building our code for deployment and deploying that code to a server.
While we have run our servers locally, we have never actually run them in a remote environment such as Amazon's AWS or Microsoft's Azure. Deploying today is not like it used to be 5 years ago. Before, we could move our application onto a server through the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). Now, even for small applications, we use a system of Continuous Deployment.
In this chapter, we will explore the following topics:
- Understanding Rollup
- Integrating into CircleCI
These topics will allow us to develop almost any application and get it deployed in a typical development environment. By the end of this chapter, we will be...