Publish a website you made in VS Code

Ways to publish a VS Code folder without the Git command line

How do CSS, images and extra pages work after you upload

When you use drag-and-drop website hosting on ship.page, the folder structure you see in VS Code stays intact. Your index.html becomes the homepage, and relative paths like css/style.css, images/logo.png or js/app.js work the same way they did in your local preview.

If your project has multiple pages, a file named about.html opens at /about.html. If you want the cleaner /about address without the extension, put that page inside a subfolder as about/index.html. There is no single-page-app fallback and no custom 404 page, so React or Vue builds with client-side routing should use hash routes like #/about.

If you only built a single file with inline styles, you can skip the folder and go straight from HTML to a website by dropping the .html file or pasting the code. A lone image, video or PDF is not accepted on its own; keep it inside your project folder with an index.html.

Tip: Folder uploads travel as one encoded request up to 10 MB (roughly 7 MB of raw files). For bigger projects with audio, video or large images, host a ZIP file instead, which supports up to 25 MB on the free plan.

Other ways to publish a VS Code folder without Git

ship.page is the fastest pick when you want a public link right now without creating an account, because there is no sign-in wall and no password lock on the live URL. If you need a custom domain or a larger file count on a free tier, one of the other browser upload tools below can be a better fit.

• ship.page: takes a folder, .zip or .html file with no signup, up to 100 files and a 25 MB ZIP (100 MB unpacked) on the free forever plan, and gives you a public link and QR code in seconds.
• Netlify Drop (app.netlify.com/drop): takes a folder, ZIP or single HTML file with no account to start (deploys under 50 MB work best and single files over 10 MB may get stuck), but an unclaimed drop sits behind a temporary password and expires on its own until you claim it with a Netlify account.
• Cloudflare Pages Direct Upload: requires a Cloudflare account and lets you drag a folder or ZIP of up to 1,000 files (25 MiB per file) in the dashboard, or 20,000 files via the wrangler CLI, with 100 custom domains per project at name.pages.dev (Cloudflare's docs now suggest starting new projects on Workers).
• GitHub web upload + GitHub Pages: requires a GitHub account, lets you drag up to 100 files at a time (25 MiB per file) under Add file, Upload files with no Git installed, and publishes a few minutes after you pick a branch under Settings, Pages at username.github.io/repository.

What works in a static VS Code project (and what does not)

ship.page serves static files only: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images, fonts, audio, video, JSON and WebAssembly all run in the browser. It does not run server code such as PHP, Node.js, Python, WordPress or a database. If your contact page has a form, point the form action at a third-party form service.

Files are served as they are with no Content-Encoding header, so if a build tool in VS Code outputs pre-compressed .gz or .br files, turn compression off in your build settings before you convert a ZIP to a website. Every uploaded page also sends a noindex header so search engines do not list it, while anyone with your link can open it.

How to update your site after you edit it in VS Code

You can publish without an account, and you can claim the page with a free account (sign in with Google or an email link, no card) and it stays online as long as you keep it. On the free plan, a page cannot be updated in place; uploading a new version of your folder gives you a new link.

If you want to keep the same URL when you fix a typo in VS Code, Pro is $4 a month (billed monthly, cancel anytime). Pro pages never expire, can be re-uploaded or edited in place without changing the link, and include password protection, ZIPs up to 100 MB (400 MB unpacked), 10,000 files per upload, and up to 5 custom subdomains like yourname.ship.place.