Ability to deploy and build site assets through a hosting provider

[aschmelyun]

E.g. Netlify or Vercel. Additionally, include documentation or a link on the README to enable users to deploy their own site directly from this repo.

[adrelliott]

I noticed that my deployment failed on Netlify because there was no dist folder in the source code.

I solved this by creating a .gitignore file in the dist directory with some specific exclusions (thanks clever StackOverflow person for explaining how to do this), and removing this line from the .gitignore in the root directory:

/dist

That way, it uploaded an empty dist directory and Netlify could now deploy/build into to that dir.

Now, I'm a newbie, so it's very possible that I either misunderstood something in the docs, or there is a better way to do this.

But if it is a possible issue that others (like me) might run into, I thought it might be worth amending the docs. I'd send a PR, but there may well be a better way of doing this than above!

[adrelliott]

This is the .gitignore file I created in the local dist directory:

https://gist.github.com/adrelliott/5357698f1477cfbe4dacff631c808390