How well covered are we from a deployment perspective?

[thody]

This template is well-optimized for development flows, but I'd like us to re-examine our folder structure and build from an operational/deployment perspective.

Some things to consider:

1. How would we easily deploy the server independent of the client code?
2. If we wanted to deploy the backend to Heroku or AWS, and the front-end to a CDN, what steps would we take?
3. If we wanted to containerize our dev builds to ensure dev-to-prod and dev-to-dev environment parity, how would we go about it?

These are the kinds of things that usually aren't covered in tutorials, examples or boilerplate, and are often left until the end of a project when it's painful to address them.