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We have several servers for our project and I got use to
composer install
now we started using bower, and as @JeffreyWay suggests we should .gitignore that as well. So now I need to
bower install
on all my servers as well, that means that I need to install npm and bower for all the servers.
I that the right way to perform deploys?
git pull
composer install
bower install
etc.....
or is there any other (better) way? (rsync maybe...)
Your source files from bower would typically be compiled to the public folder through Elixir (or Gulp).
I don't see any reason to "bower install" on the production server and would gitignore the resources it installs. Also your node_modules are ignored by default (L5).
Yes of course it is minified, but for example we have bootstrap fonts and they must be in public production.
How do you handle it?
You would handle that with Elixir (Gulp):
// In gulp it goes something like this
gulp.src(paths.bootstrap + '**/*.{ttf,woff,eof,svg}')
.pipe(gulp.dest('./public'));
// Elixir - not sure but I think the syntax is
mix
.copy(src, dest)
I'm sure @JeffreyWay will guide us on this once L5 becomes stable.
Is think you should only use it on your local version and then simply deploy/publish on the server. Or maybe I didn't understand something...
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