Laravel 5.x Cookbook

Chapter 10. Deploying Your App

In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:

• Setting up Forge, AWS, and CodeDeploy
• Setting up Travis to auto deploy when all is passing
• Working with your .env file
• Testing your application on production with Behat
• Making a composer package out of our client

Introduction

All of these recipes around building have left out one key step—deploying. This is something I would have done from the start, typically. Ideally, as you show progress to a product owner or work with a team, your work is not truly done until it is merged with other work and seen on a staging area. Having something work on your machine is really half the battle.

This chapter will go over some key steps to getting you application to deploy. I will look ...