@page StealJS.moving-to-prod Moving to Production
@parent StealJS.guides
@body
Once your application is in a place to deploy to production you'll need to take just a few steps to get that ready.
## Create a build
Using [steal-tools] we can create a build that concats and minifies our source code together. If you haven't already, install steal-tools now:
```
npm install steal-tools --save-dev
```
Then create a script in your project folder called `build.js`:
```
var stealTools = require("steal-tools");
stealTools.build();
```
Run it with:
```
node build.js
```
This will create a bundles folder in `dist/bundles` that contain all of your JavaScript and CSS bundles.
If you'd also like it to copy your fonts and images (from CSS) you can specify that in the build options:
```
var stealTools = require("steal-tools");
stealTools.build({}, {
bundleAssets: true
});
```
With everything packaged together you can move the `dist/` folder to where it is exposed on your webserver.
This will also pack a `steal.production.js` file that can be used to load the app in production.
## Create a production html file
In a lot of Steal apps you might have separate html files for development and production. Your development.html might look like:
```
My App
```
To use this in production you only need to change the script tag to:
```
```
*Note* that the `main` attribute must be provided for production to work. This is how Steal knows where to find your app's bundles.
In this example we are using `bundleAssets`, which includes a copy of steal.production.js that is configured to work with your bundles. This allows you to simple serve the `dist/` folder in production and not expose the development files.
[This example app](https://gist.github.com/matthewp/ee36a94997f0eb62bb348de35bbbab2a) shows off this workflow.
### bundleSteal
Alternatively you could use the [steal-tools.BuildOptions bundleSteal] option with steal-tools which will include Steal in your main bundle. To use this option update your build script to:
```
var stealTools = require("steal-tools");
stealTools.build({}, {
bundleAssets: true,
bundleSteal: true
});
```
Then to use change your script tag to:
```
```
## Load Scripts from a CDN
You may have very common scripts like jQuery that you want to load from a CDN in production. To do this, see [Loading Scripts from a CDN](http://stealjs.com/docs/StealJS.loading-from-cdn.html).