Comment by Jakub on "What workflow do you use to deploy production code to your VPS on cloud?"

Well I am using most of the time mina deploy or capistrano. Mina is pretty simple so I guess capistrano would fit better for you.

There are several recipies for capistrano, so you can make complex deploy and build tasks.

I am using it for several wordpress projects. It checks out the repository, make a new version, run composer install, npm install, gulp build and even db sync over wp:cli .

You can also include some kind of CI like travis-ci, CircleCi etc.

So you can make something like

before 'deploy' do
  ci.verify
end

it will run the tests and if successfull deploy to your vps, run the build steps etc.

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