create a symbol link in your webapp folder

You don’t have to copy your project files into webapp everytime after make changes.

Just do this:
ln -s ~/projects/fishfamily /var/www/

then you will see in /var/www/:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Apr 12 01:33 fishfamily -> /home/jaycee/projects/fishfamily