Netlify is a great hosting tool for many (not all) projects and it's super easy to get going with!

Pre-requisites for a super-easy HTML/CSS/JS site deploy

• A project folder containing all the files needed to run your code.
• An index.html file on the top level (if you run ls and see an index.html, you're in the right place!)
• The netlify-cli tool. Install it with npm install netlify-cli -g (if you get npm errors, check our local env setup guides)

TL:DR

netlify init
netlify deploy
netlify deploy --prod

Full Steps

• From your project folder run netlify init
• If you see Do you want to create a Netlify site without a git repository? and you're not sure about git yet, select Yes, create and deploy site manually.
• Select your team (usually you'll only have the one option here)
• Give your site a name. Bear in mind these are unique so you might have to get a bit creative.
• If the name is available you should get something similar to:

Site Created

Admin URL: https://app.netlify.com/sites/amazing-site-name
URL:       https://amazing-site-name.netlify.app
Site ID:   ce665ba5-21b3-4b40-a601-0554b9079c1a
"amazing-site-name" site was created

• For a basic HTML/CSS/JS site, no build stage is required so you can go ahead and run netlify deploy
• For a basic HTML/CSS/JS site, as long as you ran these commands from the same folder that contains your index.html, you can go ahead and just hit [enter]
• If all went well you will get a return that looks something like:

Deploy path: /my/project/path
Deploying to draft URL...
✔ Finished hashing ? files
✔ CDN requesting ? files
✔ Finished uploading ? assets
✔ Draft deploy is live!

Logs:              https://app.netlify.com/sites/amazing-site-name/deploys/5f05a1c3b760ea3cc4b3fcd3
Website Draft URL: https://5f05a1c3b760ea3cc4b3fcd3--amazing-site-name.netlify.app

• Visit the draft URL and make sure it looks as expected. Make any changes as necessary and run netlify deploy again, checking the draft URL. Once it looks good in draft, ship it!
  netlify deploy --prod
• The steps are now the same as above but this time you'll get feedback like:

Deploy path: /my/project/path
Deploying to main site URL...
✔ Finished hashing ? files
✔ CDN requesting ? files
✔ Finished uploading ? assets
✔ Deploy is live!

Logs:              https://app.netlify.com/sites/amazing-site-name/deploys/5f05a2b3f57c0962fabd375c
Unique Deploy URL: https://5f05a2b3f57c0962fabd375c--amazing-site-name.netlify.app
Website URL:       https://amazing-site-name.netlify.app

Visit your Website URL and enjoy!