How to automatically deploy an application from a git to a VPS after making changes?

Question

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Please, tell me a step-by-step instruction on how to implement the following scenario.
Node application is up and running on VPS. I make changes locally, I commit them, I push them.
How can I avoid the stage where I have to log into the server myself, shut down the running application, update the repository on the server and restart it?
I suspect there is a way to automatically "see" the changes pushed to the master on the server and restart everything? And do I need a separate branch for "production"?
And yet, where do you read about it, kindly poke your nose?

Answer 1

There are web hooks in github and bitbucket. you set up the URL to ping, and on this url you already make a deployment script on the server. Thus, after each push, or other action that can also be configured, the code will be deployed to the server.