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url: https://incajs.tom96da.com/guide/build.md
description: >-
  Bundle an Incarnative.js app for production and package it into a
  distributable application.
---

# Building for Production

`inca build` bundles your app once, with no window opened — the
output lands in `dist`. `inca package` does the same, then wraps the
result into a distributable application: a `.app` on macOS, a plain
directory on Linux.

## Configuration

Configuration is read from `inca.config.ts` in your app's root: the app's
name, its icon, its window, and where a build reads and writes. Every key, with an
example, is listed in [Configuration](../reference/configuration).

## Output

`inca package` writes the packaged app under `outDir` (`dist` by
default), alongside the plain build output:

* macOS — `dist/<productName>.app`. Open it, or run the executable
  inside it directly.
* Linux — `dist/<slug>`, a plain directory named after a slugified
  `productName` (lowercased, non-alphanumeric runs collapsed to `-`),
  holding an executable of the same name.

`inca package` doesn't sign the app yet — macOS Gatekeeper will warn
before it opens.