laravel4cookbook

Deployment 111
Command Portability
Portability refers to how easily code will run on any environment. Most of the commands created
in this tutorial are portable. The parts that aren’t too portable are those relating to Rsync. Rsync is
a *nix utility, and is therefore not found on Windows machines.
If you find the deploy command gives you headaches; feel free to jump in just before it and deploy
the distribution folder (after build, copy and clean commands) by whatever means works for you.
Preprocessors
Preprocessors are things which convert some intermediate languages into common languages (such
as converting Less, SASS, Stylus into CSS). These are often combined with deployment workflows.
Due to time constraints; I’ve not covered them in this tutorial. If you need to add them then a good
place would be as a filter in the asset:combine or asset:minify commands. You may also want to
add another command (to be executed before those two) which preprocesses any of these languages.
Images
Image optimisation is a huge topic. I might go into detail on how to optimise your images (as part
of the deployment process) in a future tutorial. Assetic does provide filters for this sort of thing; so
check its documentation if you feel up to the challenge!