{"id":6028,"date":"2025-07-12T05:54:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T10:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/?p=6028"},"modified":"2025-07-12T05:54:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T10:54:27","slug":"deploy-a-site-with-a-build-process-a-custom-domain-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/deploy-a-site-with-a-build-process-a-custom-domain-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Deploy a Site with a Build Process & a Custom Domain Name"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What we’ve done so far in this series is look at the absolute easiest<\/em> way to take some static files and turn them into a Real Website (one that anyone in the world can see). Then we took things one step further and did the very practical step of putting the code on GitHub, which was then able to update our Netlify-hosted site with changes.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Article Series<\/h3>\n <\/header>\n
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  1. \n Exactly How to Deploy Local Files to Make a Live Website<\/a>\n <\/li>\n
  2. \n The Simplest Way to Deploy Your Own Updatable Portfolio Site<\/a>\n <\/li>\n
  3. \n Deploy a Site with a Build Process & a Custom Domain Name<\/a>\n <\/li>\n <\/ol>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

    Now we’re in Part 3, and we’ll pick up where we left off once again, and do two more very practical things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. Use a site-building tool (we’ll use Astro<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. Use a real domain name<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Once we’re done, we’ll be doing what dare-I-say most<\/em> websites are doing. While we’re keeping this very beginner-focused, here’s the general outline for how websites operate: use tools to create files that become websites, place those files in version control, and utilize services to host our site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Adding a Build Process<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

      Why?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

      Why slap a build process onto a simple site?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      It’s true: you don’t always need a build process<\/em>, and I think avoiding<\/em> adding tools is a better lesson than adding them because you think you have to. So I want to be clear here that we’re doing it here because we’re learning.<\/em> But here are some reasons why we might:<\/p>\n\n\n\n