Keeping a live app up to date without a deploy button
A site does not update itself when you change the code unless something is arranged to carry the change across. That arrangement is what "deploying" means. When it is a manual step, it gets forgotten, and the live version quietly falls months behind.
Why this happens to almost everybody
The work feels finished when the change works on your own machine. The satisfaction arrives there. Everything after that is admin, and admin without a deadline does not happen. It is not carelessness, it is just how attention works.
The three ways people solve it
| Approach | How it works | Fails when |
|---|---|---|
| Remember to press deploy | You do it by hand | Immediately, and permanently |
| Deploy on every code push | A service watches your repository | You are not using a repository |
| The tool carries it automatically | Changes reach the address by themselves | Rarely, and it should be switchable off |
The case for it being automatic
If somebody cannot code, they do not know that deploying is a step, so the step should not exist for them. Ura works that way: once a project is online, every change reaches its address, every time, without anybody asking. The one exception is a project you want held still, and that switch sits beside the address, because "leave this one alone, it is a client's site" is a fact about one project rather than about you.
It is never a first deploy, though. Putting something on the internet for the first time stays your own decision, made once, on purpose.