How to deploy npm project to gh-pages - github

Question

I'm trying to deploy a website to gh-pages using npm. I'm using blain HTML and CSS and asynchronous javascript. I haven't used any SPA framework (react or angular).
I'm currently using lite server for development purposes and gh-pages package.
I'm trying to deploy the src folder using the following command
npm run deploy
it fails because the build script is not specified.
my question is what should I write in the build script?
when I try to run npm run deploy it displays the following error
'src' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! AmrAhmed#1.0.0 build: `src`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the AmrAhmed#1.0.0 build script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\Amr\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2020-05-30T11_30_29_824Z-debug.log
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! AmrAhmed#1.0.0 predeploy: `npm run build`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the AmrAhmed#1.0.0 predeploy script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\Amr\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2020-05-30T11_30_29_869Z-debug.log
in similar projects using react, the build script has the following react-scripts build
this is my package.json file
{
"name": "AmrAhmed",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "",
"main": "truffle.js",
"directories": {
"test": "test"
},
"scripts": {
"dev": "lite-server",
"test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1",
"build": "src",
"predeploy": "npm run build",
"deploy": "gh-pages -d src"
},
"author": "",
"license": "ISC",
"devDependencies": {
"gh-pages": "^3.0.0",
"lite-server": "^2.5.4"
}
}
election folder content
src folder content

Answer 1

I found out that you don't need the build script or the pre-deploy script. they are unnecessary to be used, since my website is static, I can navigate directly to the build folder and it will work fine.
I have modified the config.json file to be as in the following
{
"name": "AmrAhmed",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "",
"main": "truffle.js",
"directories": {
"test": "test"
},
"scripts": {
"dev": "lite-server",
"test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1",
"deploy": "gh-pages -d src"
},
"author": "",
"license": "ISC",
"devDependencies": {
"gh-pages": "^3.0.0",
"lite-server": "^2.5.4"
}
}
run the command
npm run build
and it will be deployed to Github pages.

Answer 2

you should also add "homepage":"https://yourGithub.github.io/your-repo" above "name" in the package.json