14. Deploying Your Code to the Web

Overview

By the end of 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 what the differences between Vue.js development and production builds are and what trade-offs are made. In order 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, AWS S3, and AWS CloudFront, and their key similarities and differences.

In this chapter, we will look at how to deploy a Vue.js application to be consumed over the World Wide Web and how to automate this deployment process to release often with ease and confidence.