Add grunt deploy and/or grunt serve (or similar)

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Problem

We'll at some point need to be able to deploy GI to a running server.

Solution

Background:

• Right now we have grunt dev as the only way of serving the app.
• We also have an open issue for chel serve which is the ideal way that this issue would be closed
• A temporary alternative to chel serve would be implementing grunt serve - the idea of which would be to serve an optimized production build of the app.

I think whether we do chel serve or grunt serve first, we need a command to generate a build of the app that is production optimized. Currently we only generate a development build.

So a possible route forward would be to:

• Implement a grunt deploy command that uses esbuild to create a production bundle of the app
• Then implement grunt serve <folder> that just runs the server on port 8000 by default (and not browsersync). Make sure to take into account the contracts folder (perhaps grunt deploy would copy the contracts folder into a directory containing the groupincome bundle).
  • Note: chel serve is essentially the same thing, but more difficult to implement because the chel command doesn't have the Chelonia server in it (that's still here in Group Income under the backend/ folder)

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Old Commentary/notes

See:

• http://vuejs.org/guide/application.html#Deploying_for_Production
• https://github.com/hughsk/envify
• excellent: https://gist.github.com/rauchg/8199de60db48026a6670620a1c33b700#production-optimizations
• Related issue: Don't use babel's transform-runtume to run backend in production #41

EDIT: Another possibility is making it possible install a groupincome command via npm install -g and running that.

The point is our current approach of running grunt dev is not appropriate for deploying to a server, and we need something simpler and without the overhead of grunt dev.

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@Silver-IT keep in mind that there is now a releases branch that will contain each release of the website (including the contracts) and this will be what grunt serve will be serving...