Deploy Site

As you see, Hikaru does not provide a built-in deploy command. However, due to the simple structure it use, it is easy to deploy by yourself, because you can use tools you like to upload doc dir.

Git

Commit docs only

If you want to deploy it with git, first you can create a git repo dir:

(Suppose that you are inside site dir.)

$ mkdir deploy_git
$ cd deploy_git
$ git init .
$ git remote add origin YOURGITURL

Then copy files in doc dir to git repo:

$ cp -a ../docs/* ./

Then commit and push like other git project:

$ git add .
$ git commit -m "Updated site."
$ git push -u origin master

You can write a shell script to do this every time.

Don't forget to go to your GitHub Repo settings and choose master branch to host pages.

Commit whole site (Recommended if available)

Some host, like GitHub Pages, allows you to commit the whole site and host files in docs/ dir only, so you can just commit your whole site, and use git to control your sources, too.

Init repo before clone theme

As we all know, you cannot set a git repo when you already has a sub dir that already a git repo. It is very likely you choose to manage your theme with git, so you'd better move it away before creating a git repo for your site.

(Suppose that you are inside site dir.)

$ git init .
$ git remote add origin YOURGITURL

Exclude theme

You can exclude it simply by add it into your .gitignore then clone it or add theme as a submodule:

$ git submodule add https://github.com/AlynxZhou/hikaru-theme-aria.git themes/aria

Commit your whole site

Just commit it after you run hikaru build every time:

$ git add .
$ git commit -m "Updated site."
$ git push -u origin master

You can write a shell script to do this every time like:

#!/bin/bash

npx hikaru clean --debug
npx hikaru build --debug

git add --all
if [[ -n "${*}" ]]; then
    git commit --message "${*}"
else
    git commit --message "Updated site."
fi
git push --set-upstream origin master

Don't forget to go to your GitHub Repo settings and choose master branch /docs folder to host pages.