Deploy script using rsync and ssh to upload your local files

deploy.sh

#!/bin/sh

# server settings
SERVER="user@server.com"
SERVER_PATH="/var/www/project"
SSH_PORT="2222"

# sync with some standard exclude paths
rsync -rav -e "ssh -p $SSH_PORT" \
  --exclude='*.git' \
  --exclude="deploy.sh" \
  --exclude="node_modules" \
  . $SERVER:$SERVER_PATH/

# restart app (passenger style)
# ssh $SERVER -p $SSH_PORT "mkdir $SERVER_PATH/tmp; touch $SERVER_PATH/tmp/restart.txt"

Awesome! I would just add as improvement option --relative to create the project's folder in case it does not exist in case it is the first time