If your project is on github, you just clone your repo and then composer install

My way: warning! this rsync option --delete, deleted on the server that is not in development

user@desarrollo:/var/www/thesite$ more deploy.sh  

rsync -av --delete --progress --rsh='ssh -p8251' --exclude-from='exclude.txt' . user@ip:/var/www/thesite  

user@desarrollo:/var/www/thesite$ more exclude.txt
deploy.sh
exclude.txt
app/storage/cache/*
app/storage/logs/*
app/storage/meta/*
app/storage/sessions/*
app/storage/views/*

Als exclude files are on server and that are not in "development", (images upload by users etc...)