PHPStorm Deployment

After trying many different ways to work with a virtual machine, we’ve found the best approach for us and want to share it with you.

File access via NFS is quite slow. Flow and Neos in development mode, in particular, are practically unusable over NFS. This is because Flow checks all PHP files via NFS for changes with every request in order to recompile any proxy files if necessary.

PHPStorm offers the option, via “Deployment Configuration,” to automatically copy the file to a remote server via SFTP every time you save.

Advantages

• The code is stored locally for development
• Local Git tools can be used
• The code is in the box for fast execution

Disadvantages

• Automatic deployment can be another source of errors
• File modes are not currently transferred correctly
• Symlinks are transferred as files or directories.