diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 8eb508a..f7fcda0 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 node_modules
 /dist
-yarn.lock
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+yarn.lock
+gh-release
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diff --git a/build.mjs b/build.mjs
index d45c13c..f93879b 100644
--- a/build.mjs
+++ b/build.mjs
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ import CleanCSS from 'clean-css';
 $.verbose = true;
 
 // some useful variables
-var isWin = process.platform === "win32";
+const version = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync('./package.json')).version;
+var isWin     = process.platform === "win32";
 
 // if on windows, force zx to use cmd.exe (otherwise it will use wsl)
 if(isWin) {
@@ -46,5 +47,28 @@ const minified = new CleanCSS().minify(style);
 if(minified.errors?.length) console.warn(chalk.yellow(`[!] CSS errors: ${minified.errors.join(', ')}`));
 fs.writeFileSync('./dist/template.css', minified.styles);
 
+// Create releases
+console.log(chalk.green(`» Creating releases...`));
+await fs.mkdir('./gh-release', { recursive: true });
+
+// read all the .__ignore files
+const alwaysIgnore = ['gh-release', 'node_modules', '.git'];
+const gitIgnore    = fs.readFileSync('./.gitignore', 'utf8').split('\n').map(e => e.trim()).filter(e => !alwaysIgnore.includes(e) && e);
+const npmIgnore    = fs.readFileSync('.npmignore', 'utf8')  .split('\n').map(e => e.trim()).filter(e => !alwaysIgnore.includes(e) && e);
+
+// before each element in the array add a "-x" element
+const excludeFlag          = isWin ? '--exclude' : '-x';
+const alwaysIgnoreCLIFlags = alwaysIgnore.map(x => [excludeFlag, x]).flat();
+const gitIgnoreCLIFlags    = gitIgnore   .map(x => [excludeFlag, x]).flat();
+const npmIgnoreCLIFlags    = npmIgnore   .map(x => [excludeFlag, x]).flat();
+
+// dist zip
+if(isWin) await $`tar.exe -c ${alwaysIgnoreCLIFlags} ${npmIgnoreCLIFlags} -a -f ./gh-release/dist-${version}.zip .`
+else      await $`zip ${alwaysIgnoreCLIFlags} ${npmIgnoreCLIFlags} -r ./gh-release/dist-${version}.zip .`;
+
+// source zip
+if(isWin) await $`tar.exe -c ${alwaysIgnoreCLIFlags} ${gitIgnoreCLIFlags} -a -f ./gh-release/source-${version}.zip .`
+else      await $`zip ${alwaysIgnoreCLIFlags} ${gitIgnoreCLIFlags} -r ./gh-release/source-${version}.zip .`;
+
 // thats it for now!
 console.log(chalk.green(`» Done!`));
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