Some guilds about deploying in production?

[chrisyue]

Hello guys, I am totally new to encore and yarn. I follow the doc in symfony.com to begin managing assets with encore. However, there are something I am not sure when I deploy to a production server, like: should I run yarn install --production? how can I compress js file? A documentation or a guild about doploying in production in detail will be nice to us newbies

[weaverryan]

Hey @chrisyue!

This is a good idea. Some pointers to help you for now:

1. Run ./node_modules/.bin/encore production before / during deploying to create your final .js and .css files
2. You don't need to deploy the node_modules directory at all. So if you run encore before deploying, you can just deploy the final web/build directory and not deploy the node_modules directory. That's why you don't need to worry about running anything like yarn install --production: all of the npm packages and Encore stuff is not needed on production at all (only the finished files in the build directory are needed).
3. When you run ./node_modules/.bin/encore production, all of your .js and .css files should be compressed automatically :).

I've just created a docs issue: symfony/symfony-docs#8094. If you have any other questions, can you ask on there? I'm sure other people will have the same questions, so it'll help us answer all of them.

Cheers!