Publish web apps to a CDN with a single command and no setup required.
This is the CLI client for the surge.sh hosted service. Its what gets installed when you run npm install -g surge.
This CLI library manages access tokens locally and handles the upload and subsiquent reporting when you publish a project using surge.
It's easier to show than tell so lets get to it! The following command will deploy the current working directory to the surge servers where the application will be available at sintaxi.com.
$ surge ./ sintaxi.com
Run surge --help to see the following overview of the surge command...
Surge - single-command web publishing. (v0.7.2)
Usage:
surge [options]
Options:
-p, --project path to projects asset directory (./)
-d, --domain domain of your project (<random>.surge.sh)
-e, --endpoint domain of API server (surge.sh)
-a, --add adds user to list of collaborators (email address)
-r, --remove removes user from list of collaborators (email address)
-V, --version show the version number
-h, --help show this help message
Shorthand usage:
surge [project path] [domain]
Additional commands:
surge whoami show who you are logged in as
surge logout expire local token
surge login only performs authentication step
surge list list all domains you have access to
When in doubt, run surge from within you project directory.
- Custom CNAME & custom SSL
- Fallback 404.html pages
- HTML5 mode 200.html pages
- stays out of
gits way - supports clean URLs && trailing slashes
/ - Implicit signup
- supports CNAME files
If you’re using tools like Grunt, Gulp, or a static site generator like Jekyll, your files are output into a compile directory like _site/, build/, or www/. From the root of your project, pass Surge the path to this directory to upload your compiled assets.
surge www
You may also add this directory to your .gitignore to keep your compiled assets out of your Git history.