ic, so you're saying that you will code using Intellij IDEA Ultimate, do the git commit from there, and then switch to terminal/command prompt and use your solution above, like npm run deploy:staged to deploy to NS production ?

Yes, exactly. Dev in the IDE and all SDF interaction through the cli with the tasks in my article, or directly with sdfcli/suitecloud cli when necessary. My only use for the IDE plugin is for the code templates when creating a new file.