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- [Instructor] Let's create the deploy.js script. I'll do New File, call it deploy.js, and we'll start writing the code that we need. I'll start by doing const sftpclient equals require ssh2-sftp-client, which is one of the packages we grabbed via npm. I'll also do next sftp equals new SftpClient. I'm going to declare a variable called itemsToUpload. We'll come back to this in a second. But first I want to have the SFTP client connect to the server. I'll do sftp.connect and pass it some connection information. We need to specify a host, and I'm going to not hardcode the host, but I'm going to do process.env.FTP_DEPLOY_HOST. That'll pull a value from environment variables, and I'll show you how to hook that up a little bit later. I'm going to do the same thing for port, FTP_DEPLOY_PORT, and for username and password, as well. So the password comes from process.env like the other ones, FTP_DEPLOY_PASSWORD. Storing connection information, especially passwords, in environment variables is…

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