Discussion: Building for static deployments

[paulirish]

Static deployments on now come with some benefits, namely, that the instances are never put to sleep and dont count against your instances limit.

In my personal uses of stage-ci, I mostly just want static assets hosted. I don't have a custom webserver I need stood up. I'm thinking we could make this easier to pull off when using stage-ci.

Proposal:

If your package.json has an npm script named stage-build_static, stage-ci will run it and expect that it creates a new folder named _static which contains an index.html and all the assets. stage-ci will then have now deploy that _static folder.

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Obviously we're relying on two naming conventions here, but since now-start and now-build are a thing, it seems reasonable. I'm totally open to names being different, or another approach entirely. Thoughts?