How to release from dev to stage/prd?

[cbm]

Thanks for the answer. Some of your comments need clarification.

@sunnyson

You can deploy all the files from git. Except for .cache, build, node_modules folders.

It’s clear that .cache and node_modules shouldn’t be in repo and shouldn’t be deployed. But the build folder is product of build process (i.e. on github workflow), so why do you state that it shouldn’t be deployed?

@sunnyson

I would recommend to use yarn. Since it’s much faster.

If it’s available on the destination host. npm is much safer to use, because its always with the node.
But I get your point.

@sunnyson

Or, you can take a look at my custom plugin which creates the user for you.

Plugin to create admin user… sorry but it doesn’t sound safe
I think I’ll try strapi admin:reset-user-password command.

@sunnyson

You can manually export/import your DB. But do you really need to export them? I don’t think that you have more than 3 users on local env.

Yes, you’r right, I"ll skip user migration.

@sunnyson

Well, the same procedure, export/import DB. You can write some custom script that connects to your local DB, gets the data, then connects to external DB and imports it. So every time before deploying you should update the database.

That was my initial idea, but I think I don’t need to export/import all the tables. The question is - records from which tables should I move, assuming I don’t want users, admin and configuration (I’ll use strapi configuration:x for this)? What is the minimal set of data I need to transfer, to keep the local content?