below are mentioned things to be taken care of at the time of deploying a laravel project to production.
- Make site down for maintenance ( php artisan down )
- clear all manual changes if any ( git reset –hard )
- Sync with mater from VCS ( production will always be in sync with master, git pull origin master )
- Install/update composer dependencies ( composer install –no-interaction –prefer-dist –optimize-autoloader –no-dev )
- Run database migrations ( php artisan migrate –force )
- Clear caches ( php artisan cache:clear )
- Clear expired password reset tokens ( php artisan auth:clear-resets )
- Clear and cache routes ( php artisan route:clear, php artisan route:cache )
- Clear and cache config ( php artisan config:cache, php artisan config:clear )
- Install/update node js dependencies ( npm install )
- Compile the resources ( npm run prod )
- Make site Up ( php artisan up )
