Overview

Purpose of module

Deploy is a module that holds collection of services and command line tools to help with Magento application deployment. To execute this command, please, run "bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy" from the Magento root directory. Deploy module contains 2 additional commands that allows switching between application modes (for instance from development to production) and show current application mode. To change the mode run "bin/magento deploy:mode:set [mode]". Where mode can be one of the following:

development
production When switching to production mode, you can pass optional parameter skip-compilation to do not compile static files, CSS and do not run the compilation process.