How to publish your Astro Site with GitLab Pages

Astro is a framework for creating static, content-focused websites, and GitLab Pages provides an efficient method to deploy these sites. The process begins with creating an Astro project locally using the Astro CLI, which ensures the latest defaults are applied. The configuration involves altering the default directory settings in the `astro.config.mjs` file to align with GitLab Pages' requirements, where the static build output is placed in a "public" folder and static assets in a "static" folder. After setting up a remote repository on GitLab without initializing it with a README, the local code is synced with GitLab. A Pages pipeline is then created, using "node:lts" as the build image and specifying build commands such as `npm ci` for installation and `npm run build` for building the project. The pipeline ensures that deployments are triggered by commits to the default branch, and once the pipeline succeeds, the site is published with GitLab Pages. For private projects, settings can be adjusted to make the deployed site public while keeping the source code private.

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