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 automatically reload itself when its files are edited, and display logs about
 type checking and runtime errors.
 
+### Production deployment
+
+While the deployment phase is way out of the scope of a database introductory
+course, asking students to deploy their application on the Internet could be a
+motivational factor. It would also facilitate evaluating and grading projects,
+avoiding deployment and testing hassles to the teaching staff.
+
+The Nix Flake provides a Nix package which can be used to run the web
+application in a production context as a [daemon], managed by a standard [init]
+system.
+
+[daemon]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(computing)
+[init]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Init
+
 
 ## Copyright and licensing