Deployment

Deployment is the act of taking a project that runs on your own computer and putting it on an always-on machine that other people can reach by a link.

Deployment is the act of taking a project that runs on your own computer and putting it on an always-on machine that other people can reach by a link. While you build, the project usually runs only on your machine, so the link works for you and stops working when you close your laptop. Say you finish a small to-do app. Deploying it means copying the project to a hosting service, which keeps a computer running day and night and hands out your page to anyone who visits the address. After that, a friend on another continent can open the same to-do app from a shared link without you doing anything else.

Builder example

Deployment is where most first projects stall, because the version that worked on your machine breaks on the host. A common cause is a secret key or a file path that existed locally but was never set up where the project now runs. Tell your AI assistant to walk you through deploying to a named hosting service, list every setting the host needs, and read back the error logs with you when the live link fails so you can fix the gap instead of guessing.

Common confusion: A working link on your own computer is not a deployed project. That address only resolves on your machine, so closing your laptop takes the page offline; deployment moves the project to a host that stays running and serves the link to anyone.