How to update your website after deployment

So basically this is kind of documentation for my future self and I’m sure it will be quite helpful to others.

Coming from a non-traditional background, I started my software engineering journey recently and graduated from a coding bootcamp where I built my first full-stack web application. But after I deployed it on AWS Lightsail I had no idea how to make changes to it.

I was looking for a simple and concise way to do it and stumbled upon shell scripts. You know, those files with a .sh extension that you can run in your Terminal.

As I was…