Chapter 3. Mastering environments and the development workflow

This chapter covers

  • Creating build distributions and workflows
  • Setting up application environments
  • Building secure environment configuration
  • Automating first-time setup
  • Using Grunt for continuous development

We spent the last chapter going over what to do and what not to do during builds. We covered build tasks and configured different targets in them. I also hinted at how your workflow differs according to whether you build your application for debug or release distributions; these differences in your build workflow, based on either debug or release goals of your target environment, are called build distributions.

Understanding the interaction between development, staging, ...

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