Deployment

Introduction

When you’re ready to deploy your Slim application to production, there are some important things you can do to make sure your application is running as efficiently as possible.

In this document, we’ll cover some great starting points for making sure your Slim application is deployed properly.

Optimization

Autoloader Optimization

When deploying to production, make sure that you are optimizing Composer’s class autoloader map so Composer can quickly find the proper file to load for a given class:

composer install --optimize-autoloader --no-dev

In addition to optimizing the autoloader, you should always be sure to include a composer.lock file in your project’s source control repository. Your project’s dependencies can be installed much faster when a composer.lock file is present.

Optimizing Configuration Loading

When deploying your application to production, you should make sure that you enable caching to improve the performance.

This process includes the caching of the routes and the html templates.

Deploying With GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions offers a great way to build and deploy artifacts to your production servers on various infrastructure providers such as DigitalOcean, Linode, AWS, and more.

If you prefer to build and deploy your applications on your own machine or infrastructure, you may also try Apache Ant, Phing or Deployer.

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