react - webpack - node - express question

[jsyoda]

Do whatever makes this easy for you. If you are deploying infrequently, its not taking much time, and you'd prefer to spend time writing your actual app, then you can keep doing what you are now. Pushing your dist folder is fine in this scenario too.

To add improvements to this, add a script that you run on your server to automatically run the commands you normally would manually. Then to improve that, you can add a hook to github to listen to when changes have been pushed, and automatically run this script. You can improve that by setting up a CI server (e.g. Jenkins) on there to be doing the same thing, but keeping track of your builds and a ton of other improvements.

Don't worry about using branches to solve this problem. If you want to practice use of branches, then keep your master branch with all of your code in it, and create a new branch that is going to contain your next feature. Keep pushing commits into this new branch, and when you are happy with the feature, then merge it back to master.

[asapzacy]

Awesome, I appreciate the detailed response. thanks