app/code/Magento/Deploy/README.md
This module holds a collection of services and command line tools to help with application deployment.
To execute this command, run bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy from the application root directory.
This module contains two additional commands that allow switching between application modes (for instance from
development to production) and show the current application mode. To change the mode, run bin/magento deploy:mode:set [mode].
Where mode can be one of the following:
When switching to production mode, you can pass an optional parameter skip-compilation to skip compiling static files, CSS, and run the compilation process.
This module is installed automatically (using the native install mechanism) without any additional actions.
You can get more information about deployment in the Adobe Developer documentation.