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Using Surge

This article assumes that you have a basic working knowledge of node and that you know how to use the node package manager (npm).

If you are deploying a simple HTML and CSS web page surge is a great (free) option.

First make sure that all your HTML and CSS files are in a single directory and appropriately linked together. Your main HTML page should be called index.html.

From your terminal:

$ npm install surge -g

$ cd yourProjectDirectory

$ surge

This will start the process walking you through the creating an account and launching your first page. Here's surge's sign up gif: surgeSignUpGif

Below is my page launch in its entirety:
mySurgeLaunch

After you make changes to your files, just run $ surge again and the new files will be pushed to the page you already set up.

You can even add a custom 404 page -- here's the specific documentation from surge.

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