have to make sure of is that the deployment environment has node and the angular CLI installed

I have spent so many fucking hours trying to coordinate the correct Node version to a given OS version, fucked around with all sorts of Node management tools, ran into so many glibc compat problems, and regularly found myself blowing away the packages cache before Yarn fixed their shit and even then there’s still a serious problem a few times a year.

No. Fuck no, you can pry Docker out of my cold dead hands, I’m not wasting literal man-weeks of time every year on that shit again.

(Sorry, that was an aggressive response and none of it was actually aimed at you, I just fucking hate managing Node.js manually at scale.)