How to apply update to your existing application?

If you don't want to upload and replace complete application with your existing application then you need to do the following steps.

1- Before update must backup your database and all application folders and files.

2- You do not have to replace all the application folders every time. 

• Just the following specific folders are important to replace and your application will be updated to latest version.
• Folders include 
  • app
  • resources
  • config
  • database
  • routes
  • vendor
  • js
  • css
• Files include
• composer.json

3- Open your website or application in a browser, login as admin then go to settings -> general settings -> Important update option and click important. This will update your database.

Note: You must backup your application and database before applying update. After updating the application replace your extend folder and custom.css file from your backup files.