An example of a git post-receive hook for deploying https://github.com/womenandtech/editor

post-receive

#!/bin/bash

# load enviroment variables and other necessary itemes (e.g. node via nvm)
source ~/.bash_profile

# Set Directory locations:
#
# WORKING_DIR -> The directory that actually houses the working code
WORKING_DIR="/home/<username>/editor.womenandtech.com"
# GIT_DIR -> The git repo DIR
GIT_DIR="/home/<username>/<all git repositiories dir>/<repository dir>"

git --work-tree=$WORKING_DIR --git-dir=$GIT_DIR checkout -f

# Change Directory to working directory (we'll be running commands from that location)
cd "$WORKING_DIR"

# output all the responses over git (you can see this output when you run "git push production" from your remote computer i.e. your laptop

# Display that we're about to install node modules
echo "---- install node modules ----"

# Runs npm install to install any/all dependencies listed in "package.json"
echo $(npm install)

# Display that we're about to install bower packages
echo "---- install bower modules ----"

# Runs bower install...obviously...
echo $(bower install)

# Build and bundle up our production product...all the good things will be in "$WORKING_DIR/dist" folder...
# this is where your webserver should be serving from.  See https://gist.github.com/raykao/d245d10cfd3ca2a3e1650aa63d4f87e7 for an example.
echo $(ember build --environment=production)

Don't forget you will need to run chmod +x post-receive to make the post-receive hook file executable...otherwise zero things will happen :)