deploying.md

Deploying

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Deploying

Build locally, then publish the site root with GitHub Pages or any static file host. The generated files live in:

index.html
public/
.nojekyll

For GitHub Pages, commit those generated files on the branch Pages serves, or run Onyx as part of your publishing workflow. Generated page and asset URLs are relative, so the site works under GitHub Pages project paths such as /repo/.

Output safety

Onyx is conservative about overwriting files:

  • index.html at the site root is replaced only if it is blank or already marked as generated by Onyx.
  • public/ is deleted and rebuilt only when it contains .onyx-generated.
  • .nojekyll is written so GitHub Pages serves the generated static files directly.

These guards mean Onyx will refuse to overwrite a hand-written index.html until you remove it or let Onyx replace it once — after that, its generated marker lets later builds update it in place.

How this site ships

This site is committed to its repository's master branch and served from the repository root by GitHub Pages at the onyx.jwd.me custom domain. Every change to the Markdown under docs/ is rebuilt with Onyx and the regenerated index.html and public/ are committed alongside it.

For the project's contributor workflow, see Development.