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Regarding to development it depends on your needs and how mixed is your development environment (is everyone on a Unix system, or you can have Linux/Mac/Windows)

If you are concerned about mixing you binary with source in a repo you can always use `npm install --ignore-scripts` this should download modules without building them and add them to your repo afterwards, followed by a `npm rebuild` and adding created files to `.gitignore`

For the pre-deploy preparation what I'm doing now is preparing everything in a separate location (pre-deploy path), pulling new code rebuilding it if necessary, running tests if all went ok the code is moved to the final deploy path.