Deploy Angular 6 Application to Netlify

7/4/2018

This is the fourth part in an n-part [series](https://medium.com/@geeksamu/angular-6-article-series-8add9a89e91f) about the JavaScript framework, `Angular 6`. In this part, we'll go over deploying our `Angular 6` application to `Netlify`.

This is not intended to be a complete guide, but rather an overview of the basics to get you up and running so you can get to know Deployment on Netlify and how to deploy your Angular 6 application to it. I'm going to deploy the application We created in the 3 previous articles, so you have to check them first!

#Article Series

Angular 6 Article Series
Building Angular 6 Application
Using Angular Material with Angular 6
Deploy Angular 6 Application to Netlify (You're here)
Creating PWA with Angular 6 (Soon)
Dynamic themes in Angular 6 Material (Soon)
Angular 6 with GSAP (Soon)
Angular 6 with Firebase (Soon)

#Deploy our application to github

First we need to deploy our application to our github account. You have to create new repository from here

create-github-repo

After creating your repository you should see a page like this but the name of the repo would be different

github-repo

Now open you terminal and change your current directory to our app's directory. and run the next lines of code but you have to change the repo name to your repo's name. To add all our changes:


1git add -A

then we have to commit these changes:


1git commit -m "First commit before deployment"

You can change the commit title as you want. Next we have to run:

but please don't forget to change the repo-name and the username


1git remote add origin git@github.com:your-username-here/your-repo-name-here.git

~ Change your-username-here and your-repo-name-here in the previous code to yours first. Now let's push our changes:


1git push -u origin master

#Netlify

Netlify is one of the most beautiful things I've seen lately, Actually I hope that I knew it before. It's offer a lot of amazing features. I deployed my own Portfolio on it. you can check it from here wb.gy.

It offers hosting for Front-End Projects with many options. I can't count them in this article you have to check them yourself.

#Deploying to Netlify

Let's back to our deployment, you have to create an account on Netlify first using [Github, Gitlab, Bitbucket or Email] Choose what you want. After that you'll be redirected to create your site create-site

Click on New site from Git

step1

Now choose Github, if you're using another git system choose it.

Next, choose your repo. I'll deploy a repo named angular-6-article-series

netlify-choose-repo Next we have to set some settings for our deployment.

For branch choose master, If you're using different branch choose it.
For Build command type
```
1ng build --prod
```
This command I'll explain it later in our series
For Publish directory, type: dist Why dist exactly, it's the directory angular creates when you run ng build so it's our application's directory.

Then click Deploy site It'll take a minute to deploy our site and give us the URL.

This should work and your application will be deployed successfully, But mines does not work. I don't know why! I see no errors. No problems. So I tried to deploy it using any methodIf your application gives you `404` page. You can deploy your final `dist` folder only to `Nelify`. Just run:


1ng build --prod

It'll create dist folder. Just drag it and drop it on this part of page in `Netlify deploystatic

This solution will work but it's not the best. We won't be able to use Netlify's continuous development

Here's my deployment URL https://angular6-series.netlify.com

I know that the explanation with images in this article might be silly, but I really wanted it to be understood, so the next articles would be more simple and anyone with little experience would be able to build the final application.

Next: Creating PWA with Angular 6 (Soon)