As we mentioned previously, development in the real world has dramatically shifted in the past couple of decades. From building everything locally and deploying from our development machines to complicated orchestration and dependency deployment trees, we have seen a rise in tools that help us rapidly develop and deploy.
One example of this is the CI/CD tools that we have available to us, such as Jenkins, Travis, Bamboo, and CircleCI. These tools pick up on various hooks, such as pushing code to a remote repository and instantly running a build. We will be utilizing CircleCI as our tool of choice. It is easy to set up and an easy-to-use development tool that has a nice free tier for developers.
In our case, this build is going to be doing the following three things:
- Pulling in all of our project dependencies
- Running our Node.js build script
- Deploying...
