From 07a5b7d436d9be68a3c04e3584777e8ab6eac016 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: pacien
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 23:09:30 +0200
Subject: flake: add app server package output

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 readme.md | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

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diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md
index 8e18082..569b173 100644
--- a/readme.md
+++ b/readme.md
@@ -342,6 +342,20 @@ This server will listen to incoming requests to a locally bound port. It will
 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
 
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