Laravel Envoy script for easy VPS deployment

Envoy.blade.php

@servers(['web' => '[email protected]'])

@task('deploy')

  {{--"project" is the name of the project that is being deployed into /var/www/home--}}
  rm -rf /var/www/home/project &&  mkdir  /var/www/home/project
  
  {{--Navigate to the project folder--}}                
	cd /var/www/home/project                
  
  {{--clone the git repo stored in /var/git/project.git. --}}
  {{--Note that project folder must be empty for git clone.. hence the rm -rf and mkdir initially--}}
  {{--/var/git/project.git on this VPS contains our code.. git pushed from dev box--}}
  git clone /var/git/project.git .
  
  {{--install composer dependencies--}}
  composer install
  
  {{--migrate databases if required--}}
  php artisan migrate
  
@endtask