Hosting a static website

After tearing my hair out trying to get Amazon S3 to play nicely with CloudFront to serve my static website, I switched to Netlify. Here's my set-up:

In netlify.toml:

[build]
command = "npm ci && npm run build"
publish = "_public"

In package.json:

{
    "scripts": {
        "build": "rm -rf _public && cp -R static _public && esbuild src/main.js --bundle --minify --outdir=_public/assets",
        "serve": "python3 -m http.server -b localhost -d _public 9999"
    }
}

Static files (HTML and CSS) live in static/. JavaScript files live in src/. Any requests to / are served by static/index.html.

Netlify automatically deploys the site when the GitHub repository is pushed to. It was painless to set up a custom domain with HTTPS, too.