<p>One of the main uses for <a href="/daily/2024/07/02/ci-not-ci-pipeline">a CI pipeline</a> is to build artifacts for your application, such as installing your dependencies using Composer or npm, or using build tools to perform tasks such as building your CSS and JavaScript assets.</p>
<p>Performing these tasks in a CI pipeline means the resulting files can be ignored from your code repository and not committed - making your commits smaller and easier to review, and less likely for you to encounter merge conflicts.</p>
<p>The alternative approach is to not use a CI pipline and to perform the tasks manually and commit them to your repository.</p>
<p>This introduces a separate set of challenges, but people like having the files in their repository and not worrying about failures in their pipeline.</p>
<p>One of the main uses for <a href="/daily/2024/07/02/ci-not-ci-pipeline">a CI pipeline</a> is to build artifacts for your application, such as installing your dependencies using Composer or npm, or using build tools to perform tasks such as building your CSS and JavaScript assets.</p>
<p>Performing these tasks in a CI pipeline means the resulting files can be ignored from your code repository and not committed - making your commits smaller and easier to review, and less likely for you to encounter merge conflicts.</p>
<p>The alternative approach is to not use a CI pipline and to perform the tasks manually and commit them to your repository.</p>
<p>This introduces a separate set of challenges, but people like having the files in their repository and not worrying about failures in their pipeline.</p>