Chapter Thirteen · Finish
Ship It, and What Comes Next
The last mile and the first step after it: a page that loads fast, a head that makes the site look finished wherever it is linked, publishing it on the web for free, and a map of the tools and frameworks that come after this book.
The site is built. It is semantic, responsive and accessible, it answers clicks and keys, checks a form, remembers a choice and loads live data. It also lives only on your computer, and a few details still separate it from a finished site: how fast it arrives on a slow phone, how it looks in a search result or a shared link, and where anyone else can find it. This chapter closes those gaps, then looks past the end of the book, at the tools and frameworks you will meet next and where they fit.
Five topics. A fast page: where loading time goes, why images cost the most, and what Lighthouse and the Core Web Vitals measure. The head: titles, descriptions, favicons and link previews. Publishing on GitHub Pages, with the paths that break only after upload. A map of the tools beyond this book, from npm and Vite to TypeScript and ESLint, by the problem each solves. And frameworks such as React, Vue and Svelte: what they do, the idea you already built by hand, and which book comes next.
Topics in This Chapter
head that decide how a page appears in a tab, a search result and a shared link: the title, the description, the favicon and Open Graph.my-site folder on GitHub Pages through the web page, the address and HTTPS, and the paths that break only after publishing.