A complete walkthrough: CI/CD fundamentals, deploying React + Node to AWS, and 5 quick wins to speed up your builds. 📦 Free Architecture Guide: #guide ⭐ My Frontend Course: ?utm_source=youtube&utm_content=ci-cd Connect with me --- Deploy GH Action Code: --- Frontend System Design Playlist: --- In this video, you'll learn how CI/CD works, then deploy a full-stack React + app to AWS EC2 with GitHub Actions, Nginx, and PM2 — step by step. Plus 5 quick optimizations to make your pipeline faster and cheaper. Timecodes 0:00 Intro 1:23 What is CI/CD? 4:57 CI/CD Fundamentals 6:38 Continuous Delivery vs Deployment 8:21 Manual Deployment (the old way) 11:25 Benefits of Automation 13:16 How Pipelines Work 15:29 GitHub Actions Explained 18:29 Practice: Deploy to AWS EC2 25:56 5 Pipeline Optimizations 27:07 — Concurrency Control 28:40 — Dependency Caching 31:26 — Path Filtering 32:31 — Merge Queue 35:04 — Test Parallelization 37:58 Outro