26 Audit, Build, and Deploy Visual Applications Using Grunt
VB Studio provides a continuous integration and delivery pipeline to build and deploy your visual application to a Visual Builder environment. If you prefer to use an external CI/CD system, VB Studio provides a number of NPM packages that you can use to audit, optimize, build, and deploy your application using Grunt.
Build Your Application Automatically Using Pipelines
When you create a workspace for a new or imported application, VB Studio automatically creates a pipeline for your visual application. This pipeline provides built-in Grunt-based package and deploy jobs that automate the task of continuous integration and delivery for you. You can configure these built-in jobs (or manually create jobs) to package and optimize your application, then deploy it to the Visual Builder instance defined in your project's environment. The high-level steps to do this are the same, regardless of whether you deploy your visual application to a development, test, or production environment.
Build Your Application Manually Using Grunt
While pipelines provide everything you need to package and deploy your application, you can use Grunt to package and deploy your application directly from your local machine or from external continuous integration and delivery systems. VB Studio supports integration with third-party systems such as Jenkins and Hudson via webhooks to build and deploy your application.