How to optimize project development?

Question

PHP

I often make projects (online stores) on opencart.
I start a project on localhost, then upload it to a private repository on github. I add configs and cache files to gitignore. On the server, I make a pool from this repository. Manually I register configs on a remote server. I myself transfer the database from the localhost to the server.
How can development be accelerated?

Answer 1

Stop writing configs with pens and learn how to use cicd at least in the basic version. I don’t remember if there are pipelines and environment variables in the github, but there definitely were in the github, for example