Quickstart

This guide takes a GitHub repository to a live URL.

1. Sign in

Open the console and sign in with GitHub. Light Cloud installs a GitHub App so it can build your repositories on push.

2. Create an application

Pick a repository and a branch. Light Cloud reads the repo and detects the framework, the build command, and the output directory. Override any of them if you need to.

3. Deploy

Confirm the settings and deploy. The build runs, the logs stream, and when it finishes you get a URL. A static build is served from the CDN. A backend build runs as a container on Cloud Run.

4. Push to ship again

Every push to the connected branch builds and deploys on its own. Open a pull request and you get a preview environment with its own URL.

Prefer your terminal or editor?

Deploy from Claude or GitHub Copilot instead of the dashboard. See Deploy with AI.