Beginner Installation - is this right?

[silas3]

For a starter/vanilla install, is this the right way of deploying, assuming I want to end up writing some custom modules:

Clone the git repository

Run the 'compose' app which gets all the up to date dependencies.

put all the 35k files onto the host server? no further compilation, include all files, the grunts,etc?

[Dmitry_Fedyuk]

http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/install-gde/bk-install-guide.html

[silas3]

Thanks for that. Yes, I read that guide from cover to cover. I tried the CLI install, but it only seemed to install the database.

So is it right that you just run compose then ftp the 35k files to a server? There's no 'build' and 'publish' like in .Net (where I come from)?

[Dmitry_Fedyuk · Accepted solution]

There is no a built-in tool to move a Magento 2 site from a development to production environment.

I have written a bash script for this: https://mage2.pro/t/30

[silas3]

Thanks