Overview

A web application should typically run on the web and be accessible by anyone from anywhere. It needs two essential ingredients: a web server hosting the application and a production build to deploy it to that server. In this chapter, we will focus on the second part of the recipe. But what do we mean by production build?

In a nutshell, a production build of a web application is an optimized version of the application code that is smaller, faster, and more performant. Primarily, it is a process that takes all the code files of the application, applies optimization techniques, and converts them to a single bundle file.

We just need one last piece to connect the dots and make our application available for anyone to use, which is to build and deploy it to a web server.